175 Megabytes worth downloading retro-futuristic-chipmusic at the “Memories of the Future“-compilation. This is food for 80iers-lovers. The album was released on the netlabel Select Start Records. Artwork is enjoyful, too, made by Nazzilla – recommended to pixellovers with rough and shiny attitudes. (via)
The BreakPoint 2010-demoscene party was the last BreakPoint ever, held last weekend in Bingen am Rhein. The BreakPoint lately was the biggest demoscene event in the world, no surprise, that there were great contributions in the compos. All products can be browsed at Pouet.net, while Bitfellas has a good overview of winners and interesting must-see works from this party. To me, one of the most surprising and interesting work came from Holon. *clap clap clap* Check it out:
Designer and Typograph Marian Bantjes worked for 15 month on a book-project, that is ready for pre-order now. The book “I wonder” is elaborate made with 4 colors (CMYK) plus gold and silver colors. The style is in-between serializing found things in an eclectic manner, while at the same time generating patterns by layering and structuring. I’ll bet, that every chip-style lover would also have a good poke in this book.
Found the blog “Little-Scale” from Sebastian Tomczak, where he presens various experiments with sequencer, hardware and waveform-modulators. The combination of weird hardware, devices with a raw pixelated sound make them unique works, that got into my heart right from the start. A cool combination of old meets new, like a MIDI-Sequencer for the Sega Mage Drive or iPod Touch controlling a C64.
Another weekend to start fresh with blogging. Videos like this one makes it easy to boot up with grace. It’s the video “Tagalog” from the Chiptuneband “Cheap Dinosaurs“, filmed originally with the odd Game Boy Camera (some of this special items, you only can love Nintendo for). (via)
A short-movie by Patrick Jean, showing how a destructive pixel-invasion of New York / the Earth could look like. The retro-look is still so charming. For people, who do not only want invade city virtually, the Space Invader project from Paris equipped their shop with a heavily limited new invasion kit item, i.e. if you want to do this things in reality (if you can afford the 180/300 euro price tag).
Limited Space Invaders Kit
(Movie via real7a)
Oh, I love interactive (or reactive) sound-composition tools, especially if the sound and look good like this app called Rain. In this app you can place sounds in the form of blocks. The keep on falling and make a sound if they reach the bottom. Nice and soothing experience. There are good news for people, who work with sounds on other devices: “the app transmits all sequences via OSC messages on port 4444“.
Rain was made by Rainer Kohlberger, a Berlin-based Freelancer and Artist. He is also into blogging, some interesting things are to discover at his blogs Blowup and Bleed.
(via Creativeapplications)
