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Bits and Pieces
A History of Chiptunes
Taschenbuch von Kenneth B McAlpine
Sprache: Englisch

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Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers developed code that enabled the limited hardware of those early 8-bit machines to perform musical feats that they were never designed to achieve. In time, that combination of hardware and creative code came to define a unique 8-bit sound that imprinted itself on a generation of gamers.
For a new generation of musicians, this music has currency through the chipscene, a vibrant musical subculture that repurposes obsolete gaming hardware. It's performative: raw and edgy, loaded with authenticity and driven by a strong DIY ethic. It's more punk than Pac-Man, and yet, it's part of that same story of ingenuity and invention; 8-bit hardware is no longer a retired gaming console, but a quirky and characterful musical instrument. Taking these consoles to the stage, musicians fuse 8-bit sounds with other musical styles - drum'n'bass, jungle, techno and house - to create a unique contemporary sound.
Analyzing musical structures and technological methods used with chiptune, Bits and Pieces traces the simple beeps of the earliest arcade games, through the murky shadows of the digital underground, to global festivals and movie soundtracks.
Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers developed code that enabled the limited hardware of those early 8-bit machines to perform musical feats that they were never designed to achieve. In time, that combination of hardware and creative code came to define a unique 8-bit sound that imprinted itself on a generation of gamers.
For a new generation of musicians, this music has currency through the chipscene, a vibrant musical subculture that repurposes obsolete gaming hardware. It's performative: raw and edgy, loaded with authenticity and driven by a strong DIY ethic. It's more punk than Pac-Man, and yet, it's part of that same story of ingenuity and invention; 8-bit hardware is no longer a retired gaming console, but a quirky and characterful musical instrument. Taking these consoles to the stage, musicians fuse 8-bit sounds with other musical styles - drum'n'bass, jungle, techno and house - to create a unique contemporary sound.
Analyzing musical structures and technological methods used with chiptune, Bits and Pieces traces the simple beeps of the earliest arcade games, through the murky shadows of the digital underground, to global festivals and movie soundtracks.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Chapter 1: The Atari VCS, The Rise of the Machines

  • Chapter 2: The ZX Spectrum, The Sound of One Bit

  • Chapter 3: The Commodore 64, For the masses, not the classes

  • Chapter 4: The Nintendo NES, A Shop of Strange and Wonderful Things

  • Chapter 5: The Ultimate Soundtracker?

  • Chapter 6: Going Underground

  • Chapter 7: The Game Boy, a handheld revolution

  • Chapter 8: Netlabels and real-world festivals

  • Chapter 9: Fakebit, Fans and 8-bit Covers

  • Chapter 10: Chips with everything

  • Glossary

  • Acknowledgements

  • Notes

  • Sources

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musiktheorie & Musiklehre
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780190496104
ISBN-10: 019049610X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McAlpine, Kenneth B
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 254 x 178 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Kenneth B McAlpine
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2018
Gewicht: 0,605 kg
Artikel-ID: 113502194
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Chapter 1: The Atari VCS, The Rise of the Machines

  • Chapter 2: The ZX Spectrum, The Sound of One Bit

  • Chapter 3: The Commodore 64, For the masses, not the classes

  • Chapter 4: The Nintendo NES, A Shop of Strange and Wonderful Things

  • Chapter 5: The Ultimate Soundtracker?

  • Chapter 6: Going Underground

  • Chapter 7: The Game Boy, a handheld revolution

  • Chapter 8: Netlabels and real-world festivals

  • Chapter 9: Fakebit, Fans and 8-bit Covers

  • Chapter 10: Chips with everything

  • Glossary

  • Acknowledgements

  • Notes

  • Sources

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musiktheorie & Musiklehre
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780190496104
ISBN-10: 019049610X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McAlpine, Kenneth B
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 254 x 178 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Kenneth B McAlpine
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2018
Gewicht: 0,605 kg
Artikel-ID: 113502194
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