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 ...

Chiptune sounds have been bubbling up into the mainstream for years. The Timbaland-­produced 50 Cent single “Ayo Technology” (from 2007) and Kesha’s 2009 hit “Tik Tok” both brought NES ...

It's gotten easier and easier to make chiptune music (or at least, music that sounds like chiptune music), but for the most part, you'll still need to have some sort of digital audio workstation ...

Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings. The performance on a recent Friday was part of Blip Festival, a four ...

Astro likens chiptune to being the punk of electronic music. When he was a kid he didn’t have access to traditional instruments, so he learned to make beats on his Gameboy.

Most chiptune artists share that DIY sentiment and use a similar set of hardware -- Commodore 64s, Game Boys, Atari 2600s and others of similar ilk -- to make their music.

The BBC's Matt Danzico reports on a emerging breed of gamer-centric music called chiptune, which uses aged video game electronics to create sounds.

Their slant on chiptune is that they combine those tones with Japanese folk music (Minyo), occasionally reaching towards funk, hip-hop, and classical music (as shown in his marvelous rendition of ...

NEW YORK – Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses.As ...

Chiptune artists are “considered freaks in the electronic music scene, because we’re trying, almost deliberately in a way, to not do pop songs and stuff like that,” said Montreal-based ...