While the taxonomy that divides house music from trance from IDM and other electronic sub-genres can get confusing, chiptune (or chip music) is pretty straightforward: It's music made with sound chips ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

The charm of chiptune isn’t lost on anyone who has rescued Princess Peach from the final castle. It’s a fluid style of music that’s meticulous at best, composed from the sounds of vintage game chips ...

Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted Wires ...

Haven't yet been introduced to the wonders that is the nascent chiptune scene? That's where Paul Owens' Reformat the Planet comes in, a documentary covering the growing 8-bit powered music style. The ...

Following on from their first Kickstarter success, Arcano Systems has this week launched another campaign to crowdfund their new Obscura MIDI 8-bit NES & C64 Chiptune synthesiser which requires just ...

Kris Uzzle, also known as Astro, uses the nostalgic sounds of his handheld Gameboy to make an 8-bit style of electronic pop music called chiptune.

If you are in the market for a retro 8-bit chiptune synthesizer you may be interested in a new piece of hardware which is being created by Arcano Systems the form of the Gem-8. The Gem-8 has been ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

This article was taken from the August 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an umbrella that uses Piezo sensors to detect rainfall and turn it into chiptunes. German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an ...