I have to admit, chiptune is something I’ve only been really into for a very short while. That’s not to say I haven’t been familiar with it. I knew people still made 8-bit music using old consoles, ...

We interviewed the New York-based musician Haeyoung Kim — aka BubblyFish — one of the performers at this year’s Blip Festival (November 29 to December 2 @ New York’s Eyebeam lab), to find out more ...

Ever owned a Gameboy? If so, unless your mom forced you to keep the volume off, you’ve probably heard chiptunes before. Also known as 8-bit music, chiptunes are songs made with the actual sound chips ...

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 Wires ...

The charm of chiptune isn’t lost on anyone who has rescued Princess Peach from the final castle. It’s a fluid style of music that’s meticulous at best, composed from the sounds of vintage game chips ...

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. Subscribe to read ...

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

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

If you are in the market for a retro 8-bit chiptune synthesizer you may be interested in a new piece of hardware which is being created by Arcano Systems the form of the Gem-8. The Gem-8 has been ...

With its vintage sound, there’s no mistaking the unique 8-bit sound of video games from the 80s and 90s. It became so popular that eventually sparked its own genre of music known as “chiptune” for ...

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