Experience “The Teaching Machine,” the debut release by Philadelphia chiptune musician an0va. A tale of technology, sentience, and what it means to be human…
…or something like that.
credits
released 10 August 2011
Track 1 composed by George Wilkins; arranged by Daniel Davis
Tracks 2-6 composed and performed by Daniel Davis
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Daniel Davis
Artwork by Katie Dempsey
Artist at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/cTrix/118258328189500
The “gAtari” was my excuse to do something a little silly after I discovered that the Atari 2600 was more limiting than I realized! (31 pitches, minimal waveforms and only 2 channels!) I needed an EQ which could take a high voltage and drop it down to line level (Boss bass EQ) plus a way to hold loops between tracks and parts (Boss delay). So rather than have it “DJ” style config, I thought I make something a little more creative. It uses my atari-x-mod converter software which compiles binary files for Atari. You can find a little video about it here: http://vimeo.com/23589320
Big ups to Celsius / Trash80 / nf / Lazerbeat for the audio recording. Massive thankyou to sebastienvd81 & JDD3J for shooting additional video footage. Thanks to Wing / Celsius / Abrasive for their assistance and filming. Mega-thanks to Paul Slocum for the maco asm code for 2600 that I based my software around interfacing with :-)
Come to Blip Festival Melbourne 2012!
ps. You can download a similar set to the one I played here at http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/cTrix/Blip_Festival_2011-cTrix/cTrix_-_Live_at_BLIP_NYC_2011
Tommy got a special gift this christmas. When he rubbed his new lamp he unleashed the ultimate power in the universe….the Game Genie! All of a sudden Tommy’s consoles were able to make all kinds of new sounds never before thought possible, even allowing his different systems to sing together in unison. Tommy felt like he was ready to conquer the world. But first, to prove his worth, Tommy needed to face off against his genie in the ultimate showdown.
released 08 September 2011
Composition: Samuel Ascher-Weiss
Sound Programming: Game Genie
Artwork: Katie Kinkel