Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

The twinkly notes of 8-bit music, also known as ‘chiptune,’ are a definite nostalgia-stirrer. Whether you remember the cheery tunes of the first ‘Super Mario Bros.’ or the looping melody of the Namco ...

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As regular listeners of our HipTrax music podcast can attest, I am a big fan of chiptunes. The incredibly dedicated and staggeringly creative community that has sprung from the simple concept of ...

Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses. As her performance ...

LONDON (Reuters) - In a central London bar, Niamh Houston, aka Chipzel, is using a handheld Game Boy device to generate pulsating electronic sounds as the crowd around her dances, arms pumping in the ...

Remember in high school when mom pawned all your old video games ‘cuz you never played them anymore? Then, as soon as you got to college and first felt homesick, you ended up buying a used SNES and ...

NEW YORK — Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirtysomethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses. As her ...

Three years ago I brought to your attention a chiptune artist from the UK named Greig Stewart. Chiptune music is works played through retro video-game sound equipment like the sound card on a Game Boy ...

2011 was a pretty great year for chiptunes, with several new and established acts releasing material that really knocked my socks off. The scene is starting to pick up a lot of steam, but I think that ...