4: Tempo Classic video game music is usually uptempo, and designed to contribute to a game’s sense of urgency. This is also the case for chiptune.

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The event, organized by Boston-based chiptune trio Battlemode, also included a pop-up arcade, live music, and a DJ set. The 260-seat house was nearly sold out.

Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted ...

Obviously, there is some humor in the ironic juxtaposition of the dour, or at least existentially wrought, music of The Smiths being re-contextualized into the peppy, happy sounds of chiptune.

Everybody’s linking me to Duty Cycle Generator, the web page of musician Neil Baldwin, where he’s cataloguing his complete works of 8-bit chiptune music. Baldwin generally isn’t the first ...

Nanoloop has been a cornerstone of chiptune music for years, but using one has meant either owning a Game Boy or making do with a mobile app. You won't have to make those compromises for much ...

Boston Bitdown is a 3-day bash with visual artists and digital fusion musicians, including festival co-founder known as Astro.

This music is more of an homage than anything else." Because chiptune artists' instruments are often more than 20 years old, they often break down, adding unpredictability to performances.

The chiptune music scene grew out of the original hardware, and to recreate those sounds and deliver authentic chiptune in your DAW you need some understanding of the original hardware and its ...

The folks over at Gadget Gangster have been working on a music visualization system using a Parallax Propeller. The visualizations are awesome in their early-90s demoscene way, and of course we lov… ...