SID music
The SID (Sound Interface Device) is a microchip
containing a digitally controlled analog synthesizer. Due to its unique sound,
its advanced nature (at the time), and the fact that the popular Commodore 64
home computer came equipped with it, the SID chip has attracted a cult-like
following, of which I am a part.
SID related pages
 | "Bärnsten" (Swedish for "amber") is the result of an experiment I made a couple
of years ago. I created some sounds on the C64, sampled them using an 8-bit
sampler, and mixed them with some drum loops using a multi-channel tracker on
the Amiga. Read more. Posted in ancient times, 1 comment. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Martin Galway's Parallax, by me, live, on a real
piano, without any edits or overdubs. Read more. Posted in ancient times, 4 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, 0 comments. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | When Frédéric Chopin wrote his rather melancholic
prelude in C minor, he did not know that years later, a computer game called
Ghosts And Goblins would carry the chord progression of the first few
bars of that very prelude into the hearts and minds of a whole new
generation. Read more. Posted in ancient times, 2 comments. |
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