Tuesday, January 20, 2015


Chiptune






A Bit of History:
Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is synthesized electronic music made by the sound chips of vintage computers, video game consoles, and arcade machines. In the early 1980s, PCs became less expensive and more accessible than they had previously been. This led to a rise in outdated PCs and gaming consoles that had been scraped by consumers as they upgraded to newer machines. While it has been a mostly underground genre, chiptune has had periods of relative popularity in the 1980s and 21st century, and has influenced the development of electronic dance music.


The earliest precursors to chip music can be found in the early history of computer music. In 1951, the computers CSIRAC and Ferranti Mark 1 were used to perform synthesized digital music in public. One of the earliest commercial computer music albums came from the First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, held August 25, 1978, as part of the Personal Computing '78 show. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival recordings were published by Creative Computing in 1979.

Chiptune music began to appear within video games  during the golden age of video arcade games. An early example was the opening tune in Tomohiro Nishikado's arcade game Gun Fight (1975). The first video game to use a continuous background soundtrack was Tomohiro Nishikado's 1978 release Space Invaders, which had four simple chromatic descending bass notes repeating in a loop, increasing pace as the enemies descended on the player. The first video game to feature continuous melodic background music was Rally-X, an arcade game released by Namco in 1980, featuring a simple tune that repeated itself continuously during gameplay.


Opinion :D
In my opinion, chiptune is a relatively good style of music. It's very retro and has an interesting sound. It's very interesting to hear popular songs from nowadays turned into chiptune versions. I find it awesome that our generation can see chiptune as a glimpse of the past.


Bibliography:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune













1 comment:

  1. Once again, this is directly plagiarised from your source. This means only your opinion section (under 100 words) is in your own words.

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