Bits and Pieces: A History of Chiptunes

ISBN-13: 9780190496098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Kenneth B. McAlpine

Opis

A style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of 8-bit video game hardware, chiptune thrives today in a vibrant musical subculture that repurposes obsolete gaming hardware. Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune in full.

Recenzje

A fascinating discovery of everything you didn't think you needed to know about chiptune lies here within. I was introduced to chiptune through the brilliant work of PixelH8 when he supported me in Brighton. I had no idea how much of a scene there was and this explains it all.

O autorze

Kenneth B. McAlpine is an award-winning composer, musician, and technologist who has scored for theatre, film, and video games, and who has performed internationally as a harpsichordist, pianist, and jazz organist. He was one of the team who developed the world's first degree programmes in computer games technology in Dundee in the late 1990s, a role that has fuelled his passion for sharing interesting stories about music and play. He is Melbourne Enterprise Fellow in Interactive Composition, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.