Chip music | Bit banger is my most constrained and minimalistic
microcontroller-based demo yet. It won the Oldschool 4k compo at Revision 2011. Read more. Posted Monday 13-Jun-2011 10:23, 14 comments. |
 | This piece, Shchedryk, was written by Ukrainan
composer Mykola Leontovych in 1916, as an assignment for a harmony course. The
ostinato is an ancient new year's chant. Peter Wilhousky wrote the English
lyrics in 1936, transforming the song into a Christmas carol. Read more. Posted Sunday 19-Dec-2010 18:01, 4 comments. |
 | Two well-known pieces from the Castlevania series:
Vampire Killer by Kinuyo Yamashita and Bloody Tears by Kenichi
Matsubara. Read more. Posted Saturday 17-Sep-2011 19:11, 4 comments. |
 | Craft is a demo running on its own minimalistic demo
platform. The demo platform is based on an ATmega88 microcontroller. Read more. - lft_craft (Original video clip, Xvid, 89.4 MB)
- lft_craft_src (Schematics, firmware binaries and source code, 70.5 KB)
Posted Thursday 27-Mar-2008 20:33, 159 comments. |
 | Title theme for the C64 game Delta, composed by Rob
Hubbard in 1987, performed live on the Chipophone. The
piece was heavily inspired by the final movement of the Koyaanisqatsi
soundtrack which was composed by Philip Glass in 1982. Read more. Posted Wednesday 25-Aug-2010 18:23, 6 comments. |
 | DuckTales, "The Moon" level, composed by Yoshihiro
Sakaguchi (?) in 1989, performed on the Chipophone. Read more. Posted Sunday 15-Aug-2010 11:27, 5 comments. |
 | I was asked to compose a tune to a chip disk, early in
2006, but the whole project appears to have been abandoned. So I'll just put my
song here instead. Read more. Posted Tuesday 2-Jan-2007 13:55, 0 comments. |
 | Fratres by Arvo Pärt is one of my favourite
pieces of music. The analytical meets the aesthetical as Pärt takes us on a
meditative, harmonical journey, built up from a simple set of mathematical
rules. Read more. Posted Monday 3-Dec-2007 06:52, 38 comments. |
 | Named after one of the characteristic features of the SID chip, Hardsync
is a C64 party game
that follows in the (wait for it...) footsteps of games like Dance Dance
Revolution and StepMania. Read more. Posted Thursday 8-Nov-2012 14:23, 9 comments. |
 | International Karate, composed by Rob Hubbard in 1986.
This one turned out to be incredibly fun to play! Hope you'll enjoy listening
as well. Watch out for the two places where new loops are recorded on the
fly. Read more. Posted Sunday 20-Feb-2011 21:39, 6 comments. |
 | This little tune was composed for my good friend Linus
Walleij, who turned 0x28 recently. Read more. Posted Tuesday 10-Jul-2012 20:46, 6 comments. |
 | A fun event at Backslash 2007 was the 4 KB tracked music
compo. My contribution was in the MOD format (ProTracker), which turned out to
be quite a challenging restriction. Read more. Posted Wednesday 1-Aug-2007 17:01, 0 comments. |
 | LFF by Matt Simmonds (4-mat), performed on the Chipophone. Read more. Posted Sunday 15-May-2011 13:17, 7 comments. |
 | Music from the game Little Nemo: The Dream
Master, composed by Junko Tamiya in 1990, performed on the Chipophone. Read more. Posted Sunday 12-Dec-2010 09:44, 1 comment. |
 | The opening theme from Mega Man 3 (original japanese
title: Rockman 3). For this tune, I implemented a new feature that allows me to
record a loop into memory, and start the playback using a pedal at a later
time. Read more. Posted Sunday 13-Feb-2011 20:40, 3 comments. |
 | Metroid, intro and ending tunes, composed by Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka in 1986. Read more. Posted Monday 28-Feb-2011 18:12, 3 comments. |
 | Metroid, in-game music, composed by Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka in 1986. Read more. Posted Sunday 13-Mar-2011 21:26, 3 comments. |
 | This was my contribution to the chip music compo at Hype
1999. It ended up on a shared 3rd place. Read more. Posted Sunday 30-Jul-2006 12:02, 0 comments. |
 | The high score theme from Monty On the Run,
composed by Rob Hubbard in 1985. Arranged for left hand and pedals. Read more. Posted Sunday 8-May-2011 21:44, 3 comments. |
 | This SID tune was composed for (and partly at) Breakpoint 2008. Read more. - Nymphaea (C64 executable file, 4630 bytes)
Posted Tuesday 25-Mar-2008 18:26, 2 comments. |
 | A "bastard pop" track consists of two different pieces
of music, by two competing or quarreling artists, played back at the same
time. Read more. Posted Sunday 24-Dec-2006 13:10, 5 comments. |
 | This is my Chipophone
interpretation of the Credits music from the Pokémon Trading Card Game video
game. The music was composed by Ichiro Shimakura in 1998. Read more. Posted Monday 20-Sep-2010 20:11, 4 comments. |
 | Here's another ATmega88-based hardware chiptune, this
time composed for Little Computer People
2009. It was my contribution to the "other music" compo, and won the
1st place. Read more. Posted Sunday 19-Jul-2009 17:47, 12 comments. |
 | It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate quite
primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn't sound like a
chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually
it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a
Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will
sound like an organ. Read more. Posted Saturday 10-May-2008 07:27, 22 comments. |
 | Finally! The SID theme finder has been resurrected and
upgraded to modern HVSC path names. Read more. Posted Tuesday 29-Jan-2008 06:36, 3 comments. |
 | I contributed this one-filer to the C64 Demo compo
at Datastorm 2013. It ended up on 7th
place, which I consider quite good for a technical proof of concept. Read more. Posted Wednesday 20-Mar-2013 22:23, 1 comment. |
 | Shards of Fancy is a C64 demo released in the
Oldskool Demo competition at Revision 2013, where it ended up on
6th place. Read more. Posted Tuesday 2-Apr-2013 16:01, 1 comment. |
 | Sidreloc is a tool for relocating SID tunes any
number of whole pages, using a novel but remarkably simple algorithm. It can
also relocate all zero-page variables used by the tune. Read more. Posted Monday 28-May-2012 08:13, 9 comments. |
 | This SID tune was composed for Breakpoint 2009. It ended
up 7th in the Oldschool Executable Music compo, which isn't too bad considering its original
approach. Read more. Posted Tuesday 5-May-2009 05:35, 0 comments. |
 | A chipophone cover of Still Alive, Jonathan
Coulton's song which plays at the end of Portal, featuring the lovely
Gabriella as GlaDOS. Read more. Posted Wednesday 20-Apr-2011 22:00, 3 comments. |
 | This is my first regular SID tune. It was written for
Backslash 2007, where it ended up on 4th place. Read more. Posted Saturday 14-Jul-2007 11:19, 2 comments. |
 | Music from the c64 version of Supremacy: Your Will Be
Done (known as Overlord in USA), composed by Jeroen Tel in
1990. Read more. Posted Sunday 20-Mar-2011 20:22, 2 comments. |
 | The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer,
especially suited for live chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old
electronic organ. Read more. Posted Wednesday 21-Jul-2010 21:42, 188 comments. |
 | The "Vad faller..." ("What woodland...") movement of Lars-Erik
Larssons Förklädd Gud (God In Disguise), arranged for a SID septet. Read more. Posted in ancient times, 4 comments. |
 | In an attempt to squeeze as much emotion as possible
into a tiny chip, I managed to fit Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan into
480 (out of 1024) bytes of ROM on an ATtiny15. The microcontroller runs at
1.6 MHz and provides 32 bytes of RAM (actually registers). Read more. Posted Monday 26-Apr-2010 16:12, 9 comments. |
 | The bitbuf is a portable 8-bit minimalistic
live looping machine. Designed as a tool for chip music improvisation and live
performances, it aims to provide a set of simple yet versatile features. It's a
work in progress, but I've made a prototype which is already quite functional
and enjoyable to work with. Read more. Posted Thursday 22-Dec-2011 14:20, 152 comments. |
 | Normally, when you create a chiptune, you start with an
existing chip (such as the SID chip or
the YM2149) and write a tune for it. We decided to start from scratch, and
create a chip and a tune. Read more. Posted Saturday 30-Jun-2007 11:04, 72 comments. |
 | One of Rob Hubbard's earliest tunes. The slide effects
are triggered by pedals; other pedals are mapped to drum sounds. I goofed up
considerably at the end, but decided to upload anyway. Hope you don't mind too
much. Read more. Posted Sunday 6-Feb-2011 20:40, 3 comments. |
 | The C64 demo Think Twice III, released by The
Judges in 1987, is perhaps best known for its soundtrack by Jeroen Kimmel
(Red). This is my Chipophone interpretation of the
classic SID power ballad. Read more. Posted Sunday 12-Sep-2010 18:41, 7 comments. |
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