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Some preliminary sources on videogame music:
Chicago Reader article on 8-Bit Construction Set, a group that released an album of locked grooves, samples, and songs created on an Atari800 and a Commodore 64.
Information (including MP3s) on Output 64, a compilation (on the German label Enduro) of remixes of the music from Commodore 64 computer games. (Enduro also released Input 64, a compilation of unreworked C64 game music from 1985-89.)
"[T]he aim was clear: the selection of artists should reflect and bolster the original versions’ incredibly broad spectrum of approaches (despite the technical limitations of the Commodore 64’s SID sound chip), disregarding all musical boundaries and preconceptions." Information on Matt Wand's 1½ Volt Music.
"The piece uses a dozen pocket game machines (Gameboys) programmed to generate permutations of the composer's score which was structured using the rules of the game TETRIS ( ie: as gaps appeared in the music the score is adapted to fill them).... the project continues the artist's long standing interest in totally portable and cheap noise/music making apparatus." More on this later, perhaps.
Labels: music_commentary, technology
Wednesday, March 06, 2002
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