“From GOTO80’s blog about chip-music”

FROzine am 7.November um 18 Uhr

Heute wieder ein Live Lecture direkt vom HAIP Festival 2008 im Kiberpipa Ljubljana.

Anders Carlsson aka GOTO80 spricht über chip music. Alle Lectures sind auf Englisch!!

ANDERS CARLSSON aka GOTO80

With roots in catchy as well as extreme music, seeing Goto80 perform is like getting an 8-bit uppercut that tastes of blood and candy. Who said that pop, grindcore, and jazz can’t be mixed using bleeps and vocals? In 2007 alone, Goto80 released 100 songs and performed 50 gigs, so he is far from finished with his experiments in crappy programming, glitchy sound-chips, and musical history. In 2007, he also introduced chip-music to Israel, was one of the three nominees for best C64 composer ever, and celebrated 10 years in the C64 demo-scene.

Goto80’s revived view on purism has led him to explore the uniqueness of making music with 8-bit technology as opposed to trying to make similar music with modern equipment. At the moment, he is using unreleased software that combines the maximisation programming style of the demo-scene with previously unexplored terrains of the C64 sound-chip. So you can expect (still) more weirdness from this master of chip disaster!

Simone Boria führt durch die Sendung 

From Goto80 blog about chip-music

We want to start publishing more material about 8-bit creativity that is not about videogames and pop-music but rather about art, the demo-scene, noise, performance and man machines. This stems from our belief that the production, consumption, socialization, and distribution in the 8-bit communities has features that are unique to the 8-bit world.

Music is probably the 8-bit field that has gained the most attention in popular culture. 2007 proved to be an interesting year with probably the world’s biggest chip-music festival ever (Blipfestival in USA), and there was plenty of interest in the art world for a documentary about art, music and videogames (8 bit). The biggest stir was probably caused by Timbaland’s extensive sampling of GRG and Tempest’s chip-tune Acidjazzed Evening. However, the general tendency of treating chip-music as a musically simplistic, technically complex form of pop has continued. Viewing chip-music as a form and judging from popular places such as 8bitpeoples, modland or micromusic.net, this is the norm. However, from a technological perspective, chip-music does not have a form and there’s a wide range of alternative music that happens to be produced with lo-tech computers and consoles. The Chip Music is Dead manifesto is one example, albeit more radical than most, of this perspective: “We have reached the point that some of us had feared. VSTi and diffusion started to become our enemies, cloning of ideals initiated mutation and blending.”

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