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Reference: Eindbaas - https://eindbaas.org/xyce - https://xyce.nl/Men of Mega - https://menofmega.nl/Superbyte Festival - https://ra.co/events/751982Square Sounds - https://www.squaresoundsfestival.com/ Music Used:Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune ThemeRoccoW - Unbearable Thirst

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Mar 22, 2024

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What Happened to Chiptune is a podcast about the rise and fall (and rise?) of the chiptune scene where I (Space Town) will be interviewing former and current members of the worldwide scene about their experiences, stories, and histories with chiptune.

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Episode 0 - Intro: Chiptune, for those unaware, is music made on retro video game hardware. For a period of time, it was thought of as the new punk, fusing retro technologies with a DIY approach and anti-consumerist framework to create a scene that felt like it would change music. I used to make it, but now I don't. Now I'm making a podcast about why. I'd like to tell you how and why this podcast came to be, and I thought that the best way to do so would be to talk about my own history in the scene. Here's a bit of a monologue about where I'm coming from - hopefully that'll help us figure out where we're going. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Peter Swimm: In this episode we speak to Peter Swimm, a musician, writer and event organizer who played a very important role within the NYC scene as one of the founders of Pulsewave and also the Blip Festival, two event series that set the tone for the US chiptune scene as they were some of the first regular chiptune events in the US. Peter also ran the site True Chip Till Death, which served as a chronicle of the chiptune scene for years, featuring reviews of new releases and events, interviews with members within the chiptune scene, an annual awards “show”, and updates about new hardware relevant to chiptune. Peter Swimm’s role in chiptune is vast and multifaceted, so it was great to be able to talk to him about his time in the scene. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Mike D'Errico: This episode features Mike D’Errico (He/Him), a musician and Assistant Professor of Music and Computer Science as well as the Director of Music Technology & Composition at Albright College. He also wrote the book Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production, released in January of 2022. We met at a show that we both played at UCLA and I’ve since long been interested in his work that weaves the cultural and political study of music technology with their effects on music making and music scenes more generally. While I’m not myself an academic, I’ve always been keen on perspectives about chiptune that integrate the chiptune scene with other genres and scenes that also deal heavily with technology, and Mike D’Errico’s work does so quite well. by What Happened to Chiptune?
67 min listen
Minusbaby: In this episode we speak to Richard Alexander Caraballo (he/him), otherwise known as minusbaby. minusbaby is a musician, visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer based out of NYC, and has had a long history with the NYC chiptune scene beginning in the early 8bitpeoples era. minusbaby’s creative output is as unique as it is cohesive, with elements of his music often influencing his visual art and vice versa. We get into the early chiptune scene in NYC and how minusbaby has blazed his own path in chiptune and music in general. Unfortunately the audio quality for this episode is not up to the usual standard of the podcast as we had some recording difficulties, but I’ve done my best to make everything legible (audio-wise) and the conversation was so interesting that I couldn’t help but put this episode out. by What Happened to Chiptune?
73 min listen
Nullsleep: Today’s episode features none other than Jeremiah Johnson, aka Nullsleep. Nullsleep was an integral part of the NYC chiptune scene from its inception, as he was one of the first active performing chiptune musicians in the area. He would go on to found 8bitpeoples and later would create and organize the Blip Festival event series, which would later expand to Tokyo and Melbourne. If you have any interest in chiptune today, Nullsleep probably had some kind of hand in it, and I’m so excited to present this conversation about the history and future of chiptune from someone who’s been such an integral part of the scene. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Glomag: This episode features Chris Burke (He/him), aka Glomag and Glorified Magnified. Glomag is a prolific musician with works as varied as film scores, original chiptune compositions, and drama horror podcast productions. He’s been active as a musician since the 80s, scoring various low-budget horror films such as Toxic Avenger and Mother’s Day, and began his chiptune work at the beginning of the NYC scene along with Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, Bubblyfish and Minusbaby. In this episode we talk about Glomag’s long musical career, the parallels between 80s horror film soundtracks and chiptune, and his time in the NYC scene. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Matthew Joseph Payne: In this episode we hear from Matthew Joseph Payne (he/him), a multi-instrumentalist musician and Twitch streamer who has composed music and performed with The Glowing Stars and The Mineral Kingdom as well as under his own name, recording audio logs and coming up with unique inspiring ways to create music. We have almost completely different aesthetic styles even when chiptune is factored in but I’ve always treasured Matt’s perspective on music and creativity. This episode deals with his history with music and his participation with the chiptune scene, beginning in the Bay Area and ending in Vermont. While this podcast is nominally about the social and cultural aspects of chiptune, I always cherish the opportunity to talk about the nuts and bolts of creativity in music and that’s why I’m excited to bring this episode to you. by What Happened to Chiptune?
107 min listen
Matthew Hunter: This episode features Matthew Hunter (he/him), aka Mechlo. Matthew has been a mainstay of the Portland and PNW chiptune scene as a musician and event organizer. He helped to run the longest running chiptune festival in North America, Micropalooza, and he was also involved in a monthly event series called Dataport. I’ve always been curious about the Portland (and the PNW more broadly) music scenes because I primarily know them as fixtures of the independent rock and pop scenes and was not as familiar with what electronic music looked like in Portland, so it was great to learn from Matthew about the local scene and about chiptune more broadly. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Boaconstructor: This episode features Michael Bradley, aka Boaconstructor. Boaconstructor is a musician based out of Seattle, Washington that makes chipmusic styled after many different modern dance and hip hop genres such as footwork, techno, juke and trap music. I’ve always been a big fan of Boa’s work as he was never very interested in the videogame aspect of chiptune but rather was very focused on taking these small devices and trying to get them into club spaces, often making music that was indistinguishable from music made on non-chiptune devices. We get into the Seattle scene, the hardships of being a musician focused on club sounds, and the attachment that many chiptune artists and fans had to the videogame aspect of the scene and the effects it had on the community as a whole. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Dannel Jurado: Today's episode features Dannel Jurado (he/him), a writer for the website Tiny Cartridge, a labor organizer, and one of the key organizers for the event series Pulsewave, which ran from 2006 to 2020 before going on hiatus during the pandemic. I've long been interested in hearing Dannel's perspective on the NYC and worldwide chiptune scene as someone who organized one of the premier events within the space and was not disappointed, as we get into topics as varied as the heyday of the NYC scene, the role of public transit in chiptune, and the global south's potential for a future chiptune explosion. I loved having this conversation with Dannel and I'm excited to bring it to you. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Dubmood: In this episode we speak to Kalle Jonsson, aka Dubmood. Dubmood is the owner of the netlabel Data Airlines and a prolific musician with roots in the demoscene and more (in)famously a member of the warez and demogroup Razor 1911. I’m very excited to bring this episode to you because one of the blind spots in my personal history of chiptune has always been its relationship with the demoscene, and Dubmood was both very knowledgeable and incredibly understanding about my own relationship with chiptune. We get into the demoscene’s history, the often-antagonistic relationship between the chiptune scene and demoscene, and what chiptune means for us in the present. Music used: Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme Dubmood - Solitude Reference: FastTracker 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastTracker_2 Protracker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protracker Amiga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga Modarchive - https://modarchive.org/ Trax in Space - https://web.archive.org/w by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Alex Yabsley (dot.AY): This episode features Alex Yabsley, otherwise known as dot.AY. Alex is a musician and event organizer based in Melbourne, Australia, whose music is a raw and intense collage of various bass music styles filtered through the Nintendo Gameboy. He’s been involved in organizing shows in Brisbane and Melbourne, helping to organize the Square Sounds Melbourne and Melbourne Chiptune Academy event series. We get into the landscape of music in Brisbane, Melbourne and Australia more broadly, as well as the rise of the Melbourne chiptune scene and Square Sounds Melbourne. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Emi Spicer: Today's episode features Emi Spicer, aka uglymachine. Emi is a photographer, event organizer, and producer based in NYC and has played different roles in many different chiptune spaces throughout both NYC and the world. Her photography work has been featured in numerous venues around the world and she was also an event organizer for the Pulsewave event series. We've known each other for a long time ever since I played (some could say "crashed") a birthday party for her all the way back in the early '10s and we've spoken to each other about many topics in and out of chiptune since then. We get into the triumphs and challenges of organizing Pulsewave, the concept of "waves" of chiptune, and what it looks and feels like to burn out of a music scene. We also get into some sensitive topics such as sexual harassment and abuse so if you're particularly sensitive to topics such as those, listen with caution. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Nestrogen: Today’s episode features Michael Raisner, aka Nestrogen. Nestrogen is a musician and recording engineer based in Florida, whose musical work deals with the harsher side of chiptune. While I’m most familiar with harsh chiptune through the chipthrash subgenre, Nestrogen takes a more traditional approach combining live vocals and instrumentation with high-speed Gameboy parts to create a punk and hardcore inspired chiptune sound. In this episode we get into the influence of Nestrogen’s prior musical history on his chiptune work, bridging the gap between the digital and physical scenes of chiptune, and the effect that growing up has on one’s desire to remain in the chiptune scene. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Liz Ryerson: This episode features Liz Ryerson, a musician, game designer and writer. She made Problem Attic, a challenging and thought-provoking game about problematic systems and the ways we navigate through them, and also is the host of the Experimental Games Workshop at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Liz’s work has been foundational in the way I think about art and creativity, and I was so glad to have her on the podcast to talk about her experiences in the chiptune-adjacent OCRemix scene and how those experiences mirror mine in the chiptune scene. Along the way we touch on music scenes more broadly, the shared trajectories of the indie game scene and chiptune, and the role of digital communities in our lives. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Eliot Lash: This episode features Eliot Lash, a game developer, programmer and visualist based in Sacramento, California. Eliot and I have run in the same circles of the California chiptune scene for some time now but we haven’t known each other until fairly recently. I’m always interested in bringing perspectives that aren’t quite the typical musician scene participant and I was excited to bring Eliot on the podcast to provide just that. In this episode we talk about his experiences in the 3rd wave of California chiptune, his game development practice, the effect of physical proximity on one’s interest in a scene and as always, what happened to chiptune. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Liz Ryerson: This episode features Liz Ryerson, a musician, game designer and writer. She made Problem Attic, a challenging and thought-provoking game about problematic systems and the ways we navigate through them, and also is the host of the Experimental Games Workshop at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Liz’s work has been foundational in the way I think about art and creativity, and I was so glad to have her on the podcast to talk about her experiences in the chiptune-adjacent OCRemix scene and how those experiences mirror mine in the chiptune scene. Along the way we touch on music scenes more broadly, the shared trajectories of the indie game scene and chiptune, and the role of digital communities in our lives. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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Dannel Jurado: Today's episode features Dannel Jurado (he/him), a writer for the website Tiny Cartridge, a labor organizer, and one of the key organizers for the event series Pulsewave, which ran from 2006 to 2020 before going on hiatus during the pandemic. I've long been interested in hearing Dannel's perspective on the NYC and worldwide chiptune scene as someone who organized one of the premier events within the space and was not disappointed, as we get into topics as varied as the heyday of the NYC scene, the role of public transit in chiptune, and the global south's potential for a future chiptune explosion. I loved having this conversation with Dannel and I'm excited to bring it to you. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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102. Copies in Museums: On Berlin’s Museum Island, four stone lion statues perch in the Pergamon Museum. Three of these lions are originals — that is to say, lions carved from dolerite rock between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE in Samʼal (Zincirli) in southern Turkey. And one is a plaster copy made a little over 100 years ago. Pergamon Museum curator Pinar Durgun has heard a range of negative visitor reactions to this copy — from disappointment to feeling tricked — and engages visitors to think more deeply about copies. As an archeologist and art historian, Durgun is fascinated by the cultural attitude and history of copes: the stories they tell about their creators’ values, how they can be used to keep original objects in situ, and their role in repatriation or restitution cases. In this episode, Durgun describes the ways that museum visitors’ perception of authenticity has changed over time, how replicas jump-started museum collections in the late 19th-century, and some of the eth by Museum Archipelago
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#021 Rich McGinnis by Not A Diving Podcast with Scuba
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#371: Recording an Entire Album Yourself with Dex Green: Dex Green is a Nashville-based producer, engineer, and songwriter. He recorded his new album, Imaginary War, by himself, playing every instrument. Dex has worked with artists like Elvis Costello, Margo Price, and Collective Soul. His work has been... by Music Production Podcast
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126: Filthy by Scare You To Sleep
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Ep. 407 - Haunted Cemeteries 20: We like to think of cemeteries as open-air museums. They not only represent the culture and beliefs of an area, but they serve as a historical record of who has lived in the region. For many people, the only record we have of their life is their... by History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
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10. Giant cat unearthed in the Peruvian desert!! (English Vocabulary Lesson) by Thinking in English
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Ep 44: Goldfish have secret musical superpowers: This time, South African electronic duo Goldfish wrestle with the dilemma of choosing fine vintage instruments or modern synths to produce their brand of jazz-tinged house. Along the way, learn about Dom’s perfect pitch and synesthesia, and why the pair’s next record might be made with just the items they select on the show. by My Forever Studio
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Episode 50: Wesley Slover: Wesley Slover is the founder of Sono Sanctus, a sound design studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. On the episode, we talk about Wesley’s music library, learning to think like a designer, and his love for game development. by Animalators
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7: Critter Division by Fun City
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Music City Freestyles | Harry Mack Guerrilla Bars 22 Nashville: I've been stoked on the idea of a traveling Guerrilla Bars series for a long time now. We teased the concept with a San Francisco episode back in January, but heading out on tour was the perfect opportunity to stretch even further from our home base. This week, we take y'all to one of the most famous music capitals on earth: Nashville, Tennessee ? I've been excited to check this place out for a minute, and I have to say, it did not disappoint. Walking Broadway was a trip- realizing that pretty much every single bar had a live band playing, and no matter where you looked there was someone with a guitar over their shoulder, or a drumset on a dolly behind them... this really is a hub for live music! So of course I was stoked to bless the locals (and tourists) with some off-top freestyle magic. No lie- these are some of the hypest reactions (and biggest smiles) we've gotten in the whole GB series. The energy is truly contagiou by Mack's World
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Secret Sonics 090 - Ruby Smith - Blending Artistry and Engineering: Ruby Smith is a music producer, audio/mixing engineer, and artist based out of Berlin, Germany! In this episode, Ruby shared her journey moving to London from Australia and later to Berlin, working in large studios and working as a freelance producer... by Secret Sonics
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65. Sarah Nguyen Helps Fight Digital Decay with Preserve This Podcast: Everything decays. In the past, human heritage that decayed slowly enough on stone, vellum, bamboo, silk, or paper could be put in a museum—still decaying, but at least visible. Today, human heritage is decaying on hard drives. Sarah Nguyen, a MLIS student at the University of Washington, is the project coordinator of Preserve This Podcast, a project and podcast of the same name that proposes solutions to fight against the threats of digital decay for podcasts. Alongside archivists Mary Kidd and Dana Gerber-Margie, and producer Molly Schwartz, Nguyen advocates for Personal Digital Archiving, the idea that for the first time, your data is under your control and you can archive it to inform future history. Personal archiving counters the institutional gatekeepers who determined which data and stories are worth preserving. In this episode, Nguyen cautions that preserving culture digitally comes with its own set of by Museum Archipelago
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Bad at Sports Episode 862: Norman Teague: Chicago. Designer. Artist. And. Jazz fan. Norman Teague, joins us to touch on craft, music, Mies van der Rohr, bringing one’s cousins along. Come along us as we dance through a racialized modern, Martian Puryear, craft and art, and the affect of... by Bad at Sports
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37. Art on The Bitcoin Standard by The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
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Eliot Lash: This episode features Eliot Lash, a game developer, programmer and visualist based in Sacramento, California. Eliot and I have run in the same circles of the California chiptune scene for some time now but we haven’t known each other until fairly recently. I’m always interested in bringing perspectives that aren’t quite the typical musician scene participant and I was excited to bring Eliot on the podcast to provide just that. In this episode we talk about his experiences in the 3rd wave of California chiptune, his game development practice, the effect of physical proximity on one’s interest in a scene and as always, what happened to chiptune. by What Happened to Chiptune?
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A Residence at the Bay 06: ’Batten Down the Hatches’: In which heart-felt prayers are ignored, an ominous tsunami sweeps across the moors, and a siege is waged against the inhabitants of the vicarage. A Call of Cthulhu Scenario by Danann McAleer, inspired by the works of M. R. James. Episodes released weekl... by The Apocalypse Players
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