17 Reply by Active Knowledge

(4 replies, posted in Releases)

Heyo,

Album is name-your-price with no minimum until tomorrow morning in the spirit of holiday spirits, feel free to pull it down/share if you'd like.

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18 Topic by Active Knowledge

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Hay guyz... so this is now a thing (PS: I'm a dumbshit sometimes and forgot to link):

Album Link: Active Knowledge - Active Knowledge

So this is the Active Knowledge self-titled release and I'm super happy that it exists. I had started AK in 2007 (since there was apparently already a Pretty Cool Dude out there already using The Chris Mahoney Project) with no knowledge of or intention of discovering chipmusic at all, rather I had heard about the MIDINES cart via blog and realized the possibilities pretty quickly. Gained my confidence in a small dive bar on Cape Cod, joined forces with friends to make BOSTON8BIT an incredibly fun collective of artists, and all the way developing a sound that culminates into what I'm putting out today.

This album represents a departure from a lot of things for me, both personally and musically. It's *a lot* more introspective for one thing, and despite all of the jumping around and space helmet wearing I might do there is a lot of ominous shit in this world that keeps me occupied when I'm not in front of people. I think it's both incredible and terrifying to live in the age where you can watch sentient robots come together piece by piece over the span of years via YouTube videos. I see the scale of the data that drives our behavior on this planet as a super-organism, and realize that there would be no way to explain it to a large majority of people. The machine has always existed, but now it is incredibly complex and may already be out of our control. I feel like this album is a pretty good representation of these things, that while they fascinate me, I can't be bothered with worrying about it since 'hey, I'm alive this is cool.'

Yes I allowed myself to incorporate sounds outside of my norm, yes the album has a minimum set cost, yes I entered 'Freakstyle?' into the collective consciousness. I only feel obligated to apologize for the last one, because good lord IT WAS A JOKE... a joke that will hopefully one day drag me into stardom so I can troll the "I would seriously listen to Freakstyle?" demographic. For the others, I feel that I have put enough blood, sweat, tears, liquor, all-nighters, and honest heart into this release. If you happen to support me in the effort to figure out where the journey goes next, thanks so much for your support because without the support I've had thus far this album might never have seen the light of day. Support (4x combo)

PS: From here into the indefinite future, I will be sending a download code to everyone that appears via Paypal purchase through Bandcamp. I won't collect your e-mail address, I won't send you some cool newsletter about how I'm doing unless you specifically ask for something like that. I just want to send you a free chance to possibly share with a friend that otherwise wouldn't have heard this before, because at the end of the day that's the only reason I do any of this.

Album Link: Active Knowledge - Active Knowledge

heart luv u guyz
-AK
[email protected]

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19 Reply by Active Knowledge

(30 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The rewards on this Kickstarter are approaching a singularity of some sort - someone's about to win a Western Digital hard drive with the downloaded contents of Nullsleep's mind on it. :-)

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20 Reply by Active Knowledge

(63 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Chykn wrote:
B00daW wrote:

Just check the thread.  Please try to leave posts with content on NESdev.  Many people have lurked on NESdev for years before posting anything.  I did not make ENIO.  It is a project of chykn's.

I have to admit, if it hadn't been for Wookie's original post and discussion I might not have started down the path.  Must give credit where credit is due!  He gave some pretty good insight from the perspective of a professional game developer.

I have one CPU board left to sell to a beta tester.  Only one catch - I need to sell it to someone who can provide feedback on the design and has some C & 6502 experience.  Someone who can recompile and debug the code for both the PIC32 and NES.

Oh boy. Very interested in this little guy, I've recently started a self-study into data as art and the prospect of having parallel access to the NES CPU over IP is... full of potential to say the least.

I'm all about buying one of those as a beta tester if/when you need a larger feedback pool, I can perform these tasks you speak of. :-) I'm thinking about what it would take to wire Max for Live out to this thing to run the audio, and subsequently drooling.

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21 Topic by Active Knowledge

(11 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Hey there all,

I've been trying to dig up some information on the GBP below (see album link) that I picked up on a business trip to Germany last month, and haven't had any luck thus far. At an open air market in Stuttgart, I came across the following Blue GBP w/ case, which with 2 games for 30 Euro I figured was a pretty good deal. Only issue is, there is a silkscreened 'Thomas & Betts' logo on the bottom left, which isn't the sort of thing I've seen before. A guy that specifically collects GBP immediately PMed me on Reddit, but didn't respond about possibly finding a legit price somehow.

Does anyone know anything about this or other branded GBPs, and if not would anyone please point me to a resource where I could look for more info? If someone is interested in buying, I would consider selling with the case or separately (the case is also EUR) - but of course this requires me to be able to first find a legitimate price point to work from.

Thanks for any interest/info!

Link: imgur album with more angles and case pic

-Chris

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22 Reply by Active Knowledge

(16 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Hi Carl,

I'm gonna need that MPK if it's okay to pay you on 7/31 however you'd like!

Edit: Right it's been claimed - "I'll be back."

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23 Reply by Active Knowledge

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

However it works, it's time to get teh south coast involved son

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24 Reply by Active Knowledge

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yeah, let's get this done - there are a bunch of us B8B folks in the New Bedford area that have had plenty of "almost" shows in RI. Got any sort of Providence connections in place at all?

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25 Reply by Active Knowledge

(76 replies, posted in General Discussion)

something or other here

edit: oh fuck yeah, give me that

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26 Reply by Active Knowledge

(90 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Haha, farts.

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27 Reply by Active Knowledge

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Hello and guess what?

The New Sciences is download-set-your-own-price-and-free-if-you-want-to - Here are the steps to have a great experience downloading this album!

Go here: http://activeknowledge.bandcamp.com/alb … w-sciences
Click 'Buy Now'!
Tell the computer how much you wish to pay (zero is included)
Computer will download this album for you!

Mind you, this is only until it becomes 2012 - but until then, enjoy and keep living life. :-)

Cheers,
-Chris

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28 Reply by Active Knowledge

(81 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Boston has been interesting, the group of artists consists of independent acts that are playing all sorts of different gigs all over the state in-between the actual "chiptune n" shows. I think a lot of the gravitation toward the chipmusic night setups is that the cities provide a central area for everyone to gather - It's a good idea to share information between artists on what it takes to book a night and put on a good show with other types of acts, maybe it happens during a pre-chipmusic-night meeting/workshop type thing. Having individual artists feel confident enough to go out and either set up or join a gig would get this genre out into the surrounding areas outside of the city and improve the reception of chip acts in general.

I live in New Bedford (30 mins south of Boston) with a couple of members of Seventh Gear, and whenever possible we set up shows down there as well to branch out in terms of location. Since we began doing that, the local venue owners now take our acts seriously and it's easy for us to blend in better with what's usually happening around town at night. Through the contacts we're making in the process, eventually we'll be able to branch over to Providence and play regularly there as well. It's all about that branching! Of course in each of these pockets of activity, there are those that are more familiar with the process of putting acts together and putting on a night - if that's you and you feel so inclined, start the conversation! Not only will it spread the "acceptability" of our acts around, but it's eventually going to give you some place nearby to play comfortably.

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29 Topic by Active Knowledge

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since INFINITE, and I'm happy to announce my latest self-released EP 'The New Sciences'. While this was at first going to be a collection of post-infinite tracks that I had been playing out since the album release, it actually turned into a clean slate where most of these tracks are relatively new and far removed from typical AK sounds. I pursued a goal of having the songs tell you stories without... well, without having to say/sing anything. I'm proud of how this album developed, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. :-) All tracks are just lil' old me, the NES and Ableton Live except for 'Telepoison' which features Nanoloop samples straight from DMGed's cool brain.

Individual tracks can be had for 80 cents, with the entire 6-track album coming in at four dollars. Thanks for checking this out, if you're left looking for more feel free to sign up for my newsletter below to stay informed about my next release which should drop sometime Q1 2012.

Cheers,
-Chris

Active Knowledge newsletter sign-up: http://eepurl.com/hKnYc
Bandycamp: http://listen.activeknowledgemusic.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/activeknowledge
Twitter: http://twitter.com/activeknow
BOSTON8BIT plug: http://boston8bit.com

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30 Reply by Active Knowledge

(13 replies, posted in General Discussion)

@sam: Can you PM me your e-mail address? Had a light bulb moment just now...

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31 Reply by Active Knowledge

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Yeah, if we can get a proper setup going it would be AWESOME to connect w/ artists one at a time and get them on live. Let's do that :-D

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32 Reply by Active Knowledge

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Hey, I know you... :-) I think it's time to make this outrageous dudes

Seaking are you still at the address you e-mailed me from before? Where's google wave when you need it...

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