Chiptunes are the fantastic, bleeping musical renditions of the soundchips of retro consoles past. Performers of the art overwhelmingly favour the various flavours of Game Boy, though there are those ...

Boston-based chiptune band Battlemode has come a long way since the group’s early days when some of their first crowds were less than friendly. Founding member David Jubinsky, or Biff as he’s known in ...

We interviewed the New York-based musician Haeyoung Kim — aka BubblyFish — one of the performers at this year’s Blip Festival (November 29 to December 2 @ New York’s Eyebeam lab), to find out more ...

Here’s a quick reference guide that will seek to explain the trends, terms, and movements of the brave new media world of art and technology. So you can skim, digest, and be a pseudo-expert next time ...

Last week, I was in Boston to give a book reading, and after the event, I went to South Station to get a midnight bus back to New York. In the bus station, I heard an older woman, probably seventy, ...

Music veteran Eric Brown, known as Rainbowdragoneyes within the chiptune community and around town for his drumming in Vale of Pnath and Vimana, describes his one-of-a-kind computerized music style as ...

Conversations about the chiptune music scene usually conjure up images of nerds with Nintendo Game Boys and dusty Commodore computers twisting retro sounds into hyper dance music. That’s true to an ...

Sometimes it’s worth doing something in an inefficient way. For example, it might be worth it in order to learn something new, or just to use a particular part. [Deater] did just that with the ...

Do you remember the 1980s or 1990s? Were you even born then? Well, if you were, then you likely fondly remember things like the Nintendo Entertainment System or Game Boy and those other fabulous ...

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 ...

Nintendo Game Boys and Commodore 64s are the types of aged devices one might find in a childhood closet or stuffy attic. But imaginative musicians in a gamer-centric subculture have been using this ...