chipTuned
an arcade instrument
a generative composition in two parts
- music for Start Screens
- music from Play
go here to download the install files.
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This is the project that set me down a path of discovery that has sent me deeper and deeper into the minutae of what makes a sound... music. It began innocently enough with the desire to create a video game that did something more than just be a "videogame". The virtuosity with which people could play some games was a talent that I felt was being wasted. Why couldn't we apply that virtuosity toward something beyond just getting headshots and instakills. We could make music.
I go into much more depth about this project in a forum post over on lines. But I would like to mention that this is where I began to question the nature of "in tune" and I have since been studying various systems of tuning and synthesis ever since. I have also learned to let go of "authorship" in favor of shared experience. From this point forward I have attempted to make music/art in a way that I could be just as much a member of the audience as everyone else. To which I shall someday say more on.
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