8-bit world
Child of the 80s as I am, I must confess my favorite song for the minute is the 8-bit version of the Chocolate Rain song by Coda.
Horrible as it is, there's this odd affinity and appreciation for what skill and cunning was employed for many years in early video games to approximate reality. How a small collection of dots could be imagined to be Indiana Jones, and how such 8-bit music could actually be imagined as a dramatic musical score. I suspect many kids raised on high budget games with genuine orchestral scores and high-fi 3d graphics look at 80s gamers and their fondness for 8-bit music and old unrecognizable 16 color heros with confusion and wonder.
What I appreciate most about most 8-bit music is the mathematical structure to it. You could generate musical sounds with equations:
FOR A=220 to 440 :: CALL SOUND(200,A,0) :: NEXT A
This code would generate an increasing pitch from A220 to A440.
Somehow that mathematical/musical connection always really spoke to me.
Anyway, for the full horror:
Yes I know it has politically incorrect content, [insert appropriate political disclaimers, appologies and chastisements here] and get past it to the creativity.
Horrible as it is, there's this odd affinity and appreciation for what skill and cunning was employed for many years in early video games to approximate reality. How a small collection of dots could be imagined to be Indiana Jones, and how such 8-bit music could actually be imagined as a dramatic musical score. I suspect many kids raised on high budget games with genuine orchestral scores and high-fi 3d graphics look at 80s gamers and their fondness for 8-bit music and old unrecognizable 16 color heros with confusion and wonder.
What I appreciate most about most 8-bit music is the mathematical structure to it. You could generate musical sounds with equations:
FOR A=220 to 440 :: CALL SOUND(200,A,0) :: NEXT A
This code would generate an increasing pitch from A220 to A440.
Somehow that mathematical/musical connection always really spoke to me.
Anyway, for the full horror:
Click to viewYes I know it has politically incorrect content, [insert appropriate political disclaimers, appologies and chastisements here] and get past it to the creativity.