Gavin
@GavinGraham
Annerley, QLD Australia
Joined Jun 6, 2018
Once a demoscene musician and programmer on the Commodore 64 & Amiga home computers in the 80s & 90s who has an affinity with those older 8-bit soundchips such as the MOS6581/8580, Atari TIA/Pokey and AY2681. Some of my music is listed in the High Voltage SID Collection (Google: HSVC).
Today, I'm recreating covers in the Bitpop genre and exploring how these 8-bit home synthesisers can be transformed into a fusion of old and new electronica.
I consider myself and my music to be a anarchic display of the pop-culture anti-hero by re-purposing defunct computer sound hardware to create a bridge between an underground electronic music culture and the mainstream music medium.
Sound generation is sampled from an emulated 6581 SID chip as found in the Commodore 64 then imported samples of instruments and phrases to Waveform for production of 8bit-eque music. The emulated SID chip is machine code driven by my own Commodore 64 music & sound driver and is writtten is assembly language/machine code. The source code for this sound driver is available at: https://github.com/gavindi/zblex-v6
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