Dorothy Walsh

A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. The "golden age" of chiptunes was the mid 1980s to early 1990s, when such sound chips were the most common method for creating music on computers. Chiptunes are closely related to video game music, which often featured chiptunes out of necessity. The term has also been recently applied to more recent compositions that attempt to recreate the chiptune sound for purely aesthetic reasons, albeit with more complex technology.

The chiptune scene was recently the subject of a documentary called Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet by 2 Player Productions. This film was an official selection at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The Premier took place on March 8 2008 at the Dobie Theater.

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