#ctrix

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DJ Stopper, C-trix & Subzero JNR – Rough Dance feat. DBN Gogo & Zack SA https://www.curteboamusica.info/2024/07/dj-stopper-c-trix-subzero-jnr-rough.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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my followers, a new ctrix video just dropped.

watch now. just do it. trust me.

[fuckyeahchiptune]

James aka CalmDownKidder plays the latest chiptune tracks, talks about upcoming shows and some tech news!

/// New Releases

Makary Brauner - When We Were Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-J0VOJWms

Rei8bit - Sparkle Scanline Disco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVPGtbFWKc

Leą - Cold, Friday, Move on https://ile-nemusic6.bandcamp.com/track/cold-friday-move-on

Jarskie - Pixelized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivqvEHlLL04

Yoann Turpin - "S.M.H.G.P (Super Merry Happy Game Plus)" https://soundcloud.com/acclion/chiptune-song-smhgp-super-merry-happy-game-plus

chr15m + fenris - aebr https://chr15mfenris.bandcamp.com/album/wireless-hill

/// Upcoming Shows https://twitter.com/chiptuneshows

HarleyLikesMusic - Get The Bleach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mq8yFWmIZY

/// Tech News

Star Bars - Atari 2600 Music Editor! https://twitter.com/aleksieeben/status/1686402682699853826

Atari 2600: Tie Tycoon (Star Bars Demo by Tempest/Extend) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnSoyYtNbSo

/// From The Vault

cTrix - Horses Remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IKTNSux0Rc

https://chiptune.chat/ Thursdays 7pm (UK Time)

logo + stream graphics by https://wendymurphy.online/

[wokeupwiththissong]

DX Heaven - cTrix

[domidextrus]

I hand-picked this one specially for @shrapnelstars 😘👉

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MODIFIKASI MOTOSIKAL DENGAN MOTOR ELEKTRIK. MUSTAHIL? TIDAK!

MODIFIKASI MOTOSIKAL DENGAN MOTOR ELEKTRIK. MUSTAHIL? TIDAK!

Motosikal yang bergerak dengan kuasa elektrik bukanlah sesuatu yang baru. Ia mungkin tidak meluas, tetapi di China, skuter berkuasa elektrik hampir menjadi majoriti pengangkutan kecil di sana. 

Motosikal Dan Enjin Nasional (MODENAS) juga pernah menghasilkan motosikal pemacu elektrik pada sekitar 2013 – C-Tric. Saya masih ingat ia ditayangkan dalam satu pameran auto di Ibu Kota dan dilancarkan tak…

[livingmythmedia]

Vancouver Chipmusic Society - Making "Toys" Sound Good

Vancouver Chipmusic Society – Making “Toys” Sound Good

We recently made contact with the Vancouver Chipmusic Society to talk about their organization and the culture around Chipmusic. LM: Can you give us a history of the Vancouver Chipmusic Society? VCMS: For the last few years, I (Bryan) had been going to and occasionally performing at chiptune shows and festivals around the world in key cities that had developed a critical mass of chiptune…

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#ctrix #revision2017 #awesome #dancing (at E WERK Saarbrücken)

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Meshi – Mr Mbere ft C-Trix          Atingwa Ghislaine  Meshi is an upcoming artiste from the North West Region of Cameroon. Meshi has been working underground since she joint…

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2019/09/21 Square Sounds Tokyo 2019

【LIVE】 2019/09/21(土）OPEN16:30 START17:00 Square Sounds Tokyo 2019 会場：高円寺HIGH 告知ページはコチラ http://sst2019.cheapbeats.net チケット https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/3054010001-P0030001P021001?P1=1221 2Pcolorは21日17時からトップバッターです 21日当日OPEN16:30より 先着で入場の30名様に 「2Pcolor直筆扇子」をプレゼント！

Saturday 21st – DAY 1

17:00 – 2Pcolor 17:35 – Breezesquad 18:10 – WABISAVITA! 18:45 – Starving GOGO 19:15 ~~ BREAK ~~ 19:30 – Kplecraft 20:05 – skybox 20:40 – cTrix 21:15 – YMCK

[fuckyeahchiptune]

James aka CalmDownKidder plays the latest chiptune tracks, talks about upcoming shows and some tech news! --- RIP Anthony Schmitt aka Nonfinite https://www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/anthony-schmitt Nonfinite - Dreamer's Day https://nonfinite.bandcamp.com/album/southbridge /// New Releases Irrelevant Devices - Degrees of Freedom https://irrelevantdevices.bandcamp.com/album/here Rei8bit - Seashell Searching https://soundcloud.com/rei-kaj/r8-seashell-searching Cryptovolans - Walled Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5fQfxvhhqg PolarBirds - Detuner's Delight https://youtu.be/JmdJBlh2szQ tohomoo - Clover: The Chefs Adventure - [Red-Hot Habanero] https://soundcloud.com/tohomoko/clover-the-chefs-adventure-red-hot-habanero /// Upcoming Shows https://twitter.com/chiptuneshows https://expo.datafruits.fm/ Saskrotch - Genocide City Zone https://saskrotch.bandcamp.com/album/zones-act-1-2 /// Tech News Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2023/07/03/unescodemoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-the-netherlands/ cTrix - The cheapest MIDI home-studio of 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpMMwc0Mn0Y Amiga Live https://www.amigalive.com/ Gesceap - Nanoloop Mobile Tutotial https://github.com/gesceap/nanoloop-mobile-tutorial/wiki Gesceap - Chyro https://gesceap.bandcamp.com/album/pater /// From The Vault Baseck - DESTEP https://twitter.com/baseck/status/1675940273631956992 https://chiptune.chat/ Thursdays 7pm (UK Time) logo + stream graphics by https://wendymurphy.online/ by calmdownkidder - chiptune music + performances

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How 8-bit music, or chiptune, moved from illicit origins to mainstream popularity - Science News

Strolling into Chris Mylrea’s studio in Port Melbourne resembles strolling into a computer game console museum. His desk is crowded with Sega Mega Drives, Commodore 64s and Nintendos of all flavours — and they’re simply the ones I acknowledge.

However we’re not here to play video games. We’re here to make up music.

That’s due to the fact that Mylrea, under the name cTrix, makes chiptunes: electronic music created by classic sound chips like those discovered in the makers in front of us.

All these gadgets are customized in some method, turning the reasonably basic video gaming consoles into instruments efficient in cranking out outright bangers.

They may be years old, however consoles like these have actually discovered a brand-new life in chip music.

(ABC Science: Belinda Smith)

They may be years old, however consoles like these have actually discovered a brand-new life in chip music.

ABC Science: Belinda Smith

Mylrea’s very first venture into chip music was at the age of 4, when he began playing with his daddy’s Commodore 64.

And while his chip music profession does not foot the bill — he has a day task as an audio and video manufacturer — Mylrea’s collected a desirable console collection.

“Let’s start with this,” he states, getting a pale grey box. “This is probably a Game Boy like you’ve never heard before.”

I have actually not seen one like it either. It has an entire brand-new case, without branding. LEDs are set up in the screen — this makes it much easier to see in low light. Outputs for a stereo audio cable television, the type with a red plug and white plug, protrude the top.

“It sounds a lot tighter without all of the ring and buzz that you get from the headphone socket,” Mylrea states.

A customized Video game Young boy running LSDj music structure software application.

(ABC Science: Belinda Smith)

A customized Video game Young boy running LSDj music structure software application.

ABC Science: Belinda Smith

The cartridge slotted in the back isn’t a video game; rather, it’s music structure software application.

When Mylrea flicks the Video game Young boy on, I hear the familiar high-pitched “g-ding!” of the start-up noise, however the screen reveals a lot of rows divided into columns, a bit like a spreadsheet.

The columns map to the 4 channels of the sound card, which indicates the Video game Young boy can just make 4 noises at any one time: 2 melodic bleepy-bloop notes, one bass note and a blast of scratchy sound.

“By just choosing the bits that are important and cycling between them, along with the right bass notes, you can create all sorts of combinations of chords,” he states, tapping away on the directional pad and buttons.

And when he plays the Video game Young boy through his stereo, we hear an abundant, complete dance track, a far cry from the reasonably basic tunes that accompanied video games like Tetris and Super Mario Land.

This isn’t simply some pastime practiced by a couple of individuals in their bed rooms. Chiptune celebrations draw 10s of countless individuals. Mylrea’s played to crowds the world over utilizing an entire raft of consoles, a few of which he customized himself.

Many notoriously, he developed the gAtari: a 1978 Atari 2600 running custom-made software application connected to a joystick and 2 guitar pedals. The entire lot is connected to a blocky, guitar-shaped piece of wood.

In the years given that assembling it, Mylrea’s busted the gAtari out on phase at chiptune celebrations in the United States, Europe and Japan.

So how did chiptune start — and get so huge?

From dirty starts to underground feeling

Chris Mylrea, aka cTrix, and his gAtari.

(ABC Science: Belinda Smith)

Chris Mylrea, aka cTrix, and his gAtari.

ABC Science: Belinda Smith

Chiptune — likewise called chip music and 8-bit music — discovered its footing as a subculture after it, rather paradoxically, ended up being redundant for soundtracking computer game, states Kenny McAlpine, an artist and author at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

“Around about the late 1980s, the early 1990s, CD-ROM technology came along and that changed completely the character of video game music, because all of a sudden you weren’t reliant on these sound chips to produce that bleepy music that sat in the background,” McAlpine states.

So chiptune entered into an illicit underground motion that pirated video games by snipping out a piece of copy defense code and dispersing the “cracked” video game on publication board systems.

The pirates would frequently digitally “sign” their work, however in the days of dial-up web, these calling cards had to be little.

“Chiptune, because of its simplicity, lent itself perfectly to that,” McAlpine states. “And so chiptune took on this really kind of cool underground edge as a result.”

Around the exact same time, Nintendo launched the Video game Young boy, which was bundled with an easy video game that included turning falling blocks. The now-renowned portable gadget and video game — which was, naturally, Tetris — rapidly ended up being common: Nintendo offered a million systems in the United States within its very first couple of weeks on the marketplace.

Tetris’ recurring little ditty — the one implanted in every 80s kid’s memory — is a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki, however Nintendo called it Tetris Style A.

In 1992, an Italian home duo called The Video game Boys launched Tetris Style A as a dance track. It ended up to be an underground feeling — a lot so that even musical theatre royalty desired a piece of the pie.

“The following year, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the theatre impresario and composer, released a Eurodance version as an alter ego of himself as Doctor Spin,” McAlpine states. “And again, that just took off.”

To seal chiptune’s location as more than a trend, video gaming consoles required to be repurposed as instruments.

A trainee in Germany, Oliver Wittchow, composed code that turned a Video game Young boy into a synthesiser in the late 1990s as part of a university task.

This wasn’t a simple accomplishment: he was required to do this utilizing simply the Video game Young boy’s directional pad and a number of buttons.

“The idea of entering code was a bit like sending a text message on an early mobile phone,” McAlpine states.

“Remember when you had to stab the number buttons three at a time to cycle through to get the letter that you wanted? It was very much that type of interface, so it was slow, and it was frustrating.”

However Wittchow stood firm and wound up composing music structure software application called Nanoloop. Other programs, like LSDj, which Mylrea favours and was developed by software application engineer Johan Kotlinski, followed.

And despite the fact that chiptune artists like Mylrea make music on all makes and designs of traditional consoles, Video game Boys are still most popular.

This is partially due to the fact that they’re reasonably low-cost and simple to discover — all up, Nintendo offered around 118 million Video game Kids — and partially due to the fact that making music on a Video game Young boy is reasonably basic, thanks to software application like Nanoloop and LSDj.

Not simply fond memories

So what draws chip artists to the scene? I presume the appeal is rooted in fond memories. There’s something wondrous about hearing the familiar little bleeps and bloops from my youth, even if they have actually been reimagined as a dance track.

However Mylrea’s not driven by sentimentality. Rather, he’s everything about pressing these otherwise superseded gadgets to do what they were never ever implied to do and checking out the imagination that comes from their fundamental restrictions.

“Trying to come up with something that’s a fun riff just using three notes and a blast of noise, that for me is the challenge — trying to create something that can really rock a dance floor and get a group of people going in a really fun way,” Mylrea states.

It’s not a surprise, then, that loads of chip artists are too young to have that classic kick whenever they get an old video gaming console.

Like Warwick McClain. He makes chip music as Tom Foolery and the Household Jewellery, however he was simply beginning main school when Nintendo stopped producing Video game Boys.

“I actually bought my first Game Boy to make music with,” McClain states.

“The sounds you can make with it are limited by the hardware that was available at the time and to push against that is quite a creative challenge … It makes you think about how you can do something in a different way and nothing else seems to really let you do that.”

McAlpine concurs. There’s no doubt technology has actually raised the restrictions that were when troubled authors, however excessive option can be a bad thing.

For example, McAlpine can pick from any variety of instruments when composing music on his laptop computer.

However this indicates he can quickly squander hours messing around with settings prior to he puts down a single note, “whereas with a Game Boy you boot it up and you’re absolutely ready to go”, he states.

“The sound palette is what it is. You’ve got no option then but to dive in and make, and there’s something beautifully immediate about that.”

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Weekend Guide 9-11 June

Wanna make a last minute decision about your Friday, Saturday or Sunday plans? The Guide returns from being mostly dead to bring a quick guide to the cheap gigs of this upcoming weekend. 

We’re powered by sheer force of will these days, but we’d love to hear from you on our Facebook, twitter and instagram. You can also chuck a buck or two at us on PATREON, if you feel like it! Submit gigs through our FORM or via facebook.

For Brisbane City Council event listings see HERE, and for JAZZ listings go to our new affiliate gig guide at the JMI Jazz Gig Guide: They have their finger on the pulse of jazz music in Brisbane and will cover everything we were listing and much, much more!  

Venues this week: 4ZZZ Car Park, Bearded Lady, Black Bear Lodge,  The Boundary Hotel, The Brightside, Crowbar, The Empire Hotel, Fat Louie’s, The Foundry,  the Green Room, The Haunt, JMI Live, The Jubilee Hotel, Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, The Milk Factory, Netherworld, The New Globe, Padre, Rics, Sonic Sherpa, The Zoo

9 June

Mick Thomas at Sonic Sherpa: FREE, ALL AGES, 6:30-7:30pm. FB

Pocketlove at the Boundary Hotel: FREE, 7-10pm FB

Velociraptor, Born Joy Dead, Pink Matter and Age Champion at the Brightside: Tickets $18.40/$20 on the door, 7-11pm. FB

Merinda Dias-Jayasinha Quartet at the QPAC Green Jam Stage: Free entry, ALL AGES, from 5:30pm. More info at V

Sinkhead, Hexmere and Dagz at The Haunt: $5, 8pm-midnight. FB

Treehouse, Clever and girlsuck at the Empire Hotel: Free, 8-midnight FB

Strawberry Fist Cake, Flangipanis, The Wrath and Being Jane Lane at the New Globe Theatre: Tickets $10, from 7:30pm. Set times on FB

Modern Strangers and The Wildbloods at Rics: Free, 9-midnight, set times on FB.

[Jazz] Travis Jenkins Sextet at JMI: $10, main set from 8pm, more details on FB

Toe to Toe, Plan of Attack, Deadyet? And Masochist at Crowbar: Tickets $17.85/$15, doors 8pm, FB

Belle Haven, Ambleside, Deadlights and Rare Words at Black Bear Lodge: Tickets $13.80, 7-11pm.  FB

Thomas Oliver at The Milk Factory: Tickets $17.85, 8-11pm FB

Izania at Lock’n’Load: Free, 10pm-1am, FB

 10 June

Junkyard Diamonds, DEAD WOLVES, The Royal Artillery, Minus Ninei, Whiskey & Speed, Ghost Audio, Seismic Toss, CMASH CMUNT, KHAM, DEADWEIGHT EXPRESS at the New Globe: $20, 3pm-Midnight. FB

Peperine and Rowan Russell at the Boundary Hotel: Free, 7-10pm. FB

Bin Licker, Kitchen’s Floor, Piss Pain, Pull Out Kings, Occults, Sinkhead and Statler + Waldorf at The Haunt: $15, 7pm-1am. FB

Finehouse, I AM D, Nico Ghost, G Elenil, RARI at The Foundry: $10, doors 8pm ending 1am FB

Replikant, Arado and Failed Assimilation at The Green Room: $8, doors 8pm ending midnight. FB

Feeding Fauna and Jonny Ruddy at Padre: Price unclear, 7pm-midnight, FB

Glen Schenau, Horris, girlsuck, Jamie and the Debt and Requin at the 4ZZZ Car Park: ALL AGES, Gold Coin donation, 12:30-6pm, more details on FB

Enzyme, Knifer, Rottem and Mosquito at the Jubilee Hotel: $12, music from 8:30pm, set times on FB

hee haw, Ironside, Big Bongin' Baby and Silicones at Fat Louie’s: Free, 8pm-midnight, FB.

 11 June

Treehouse and Thigh Master at Sonic Sherpa: Free, all ages, BYO, 12:30-2pm. FB

cTrix, Aday, Tuberz, Aisjam and Slato at Netherworld: Free, 4-10pm.

Peter Bibby and Orlando Furious at the Bearded Lady: $10, 3pm. FB

Milk Buttons, Papperbok and Requin at the Bearded Lady: $10, 8-11:30pm. FB

Devil’s Kiosk and blues jam at Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall: Free, 3:30-7:30pm. FB

May Lyn at the Zoo: Free, 11pm-midnight, more details on FB

KMack & The Wils at Can You Keep a Secret: Free, 5-7pm. FB

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Couldn't Get to MAGfest?

Some events are being streamed on MAGfest’s Official Twitch

Cool performances include but are not limited to:

The Protomen - Thursday 10:40 PM - 12:00 AM 1/5

Bit Brigade - Friday 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM 1/6

Chip Rave feat. Monodeer, goto80, cTrix, Awesome Force, Makeup and Vanity Set - Saturday 12:00 AM -  3:00 AM 1/7

All times are EST.