Bit Shifter
I fool around with electronic musicmaking using a Nintendo Game Boy and the Little Sound DJ and Nanoloop homebrew software cartridges. I never know quite how seriously I'm taking it, and I alternate between exploring semi-abstract, more "serious," beat-driven songs, and shameless pop, sugar-sweet enough to make you puke.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive soundset traditionally reserved for video game sound effects and background music, all done on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possible by Oliver Wittchow and Johan Kotlinski's respective home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, Bit Shifter's music adopts and subverts the playfulness inherent in the familiar Game Boy soundset, repurposing it into the service of novel idioms.
What equipment do you use?
Two or three classic Nintendo Game Boys, and various versions of the Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs.
