Clones of Shulgin's MIDI machine are available for $500, bling not included. View Slideshow When Russian musician Alexei Shulgin takes the stage, he does so with a computer keyboard strapped across ...

"Retro" is the ears of the beholder. For some, it extends to the clang and twang of electric guitars; for others, it's the primitive chirp of a computer chip: that crazy 8-bit sound. And as every ...

Jeremy Kolosine is executive producer of 8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk Performed on Vintage 8-bit Video Game Systems. He talks about the project. This piece was performed at the Bent ...

The MOS Technology sound interface device (SID) has been a favorite of electronic musicians for decades. Originally released within the Commodore CBM-II, 64, and 128 series of computers, this little ...

After attending the 8-bit music exhibit, the Digital Culture beat delved into Chiptune, Little Sound Dj and creativity through constraint.

There’s a special place in our hearts for chip tunes generated with your favorite microcontroller. But why stop there? Full-featured audio is a great challenge and it’s not often we see examples of ...

A stock Arduino isn’t really known for its hi-fi audio generating abilities. For “serious” audio like sample playback, people usually add a shield with hardware to do the heavy lifting. Short of that, ...

We've seen movies like Kill Bill and Blade Runner turned into 8-bit video games, but YouTube user and San Francisco State University student Phillip Raupach has decided to do something different ...

The 6 God showed up at ScotiaBank Arena to perform a mini-set and support the dancehall superstar. 10 hours ago They also managed to be one of the few companies developing for the (at the time) ...