Cool Hunting interviews Bitshifter about making music with Gameboys.

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In our third installment of the 8-Bit series, we interview Bitshifter (Joshua Davis) about creating music with a pair of Gameboys. The interview takes place at ‘Barcade’ in Brooklyn and also features Mike Rosenthal, Experimental Music Director at ‘The Tank.’

Ableton Live 8: This video demos a Nanoloop 1.5, running on a GameBoy, synced to Ableton Live.

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Nanoloop 1.5 (Game Boy) Synced to Ableton Live. Game Boy music by Gutterkisser.

SeeYouInSleep is a blog created by Brian William Green – a sound artist, visual artist and writer. The site captures a wide variety of Green’s experiments in sound, ranging from circuit bent instruments to found sound to generative music.

According to Green:

Seeyouinsleep, among many things, is a feeling and a vision. However, I would like for it to be understood as a portfolio and a folder of sorts rather than thinking of it as a name.

SeeYouInSleep is full of interesting audio experiments, and is updated daily with something new.

Here are a few examples from the site:

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Vase + stereo mics + generative processing is “Just a little experiment using a vase, i really enjoy the sounds i was getting out of that thing im thinking of buying a few at different sizes to mess with.”

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Haze is a track made using LSDJ for the Gameboy and a generative processing setup in Ableton Live.

OT: Ferrets frolic to the 8-bt sound of Rick Astley’s Never Going To Give You Up.

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This video is of nicoles ferrets jumping around.

While you are here you should go check out, http://www.seeyouinsleep.com/

The audio used for this video was a cover made by, http://www.myspace.com/ccivoryatl

This is a quick demo of microtonal Gameboy synthesis – 18-TET Tuning with NanoLoop (Hacked ROM).

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18-TET = 18 divisions of the octave instead of 12 (which is standard for western tuning). Special, special thanks to Abrasive for his help and his idea with this – all of the credit goes to him of course. On left, the original ROM with its frequency lookup table intact, and on the right the edited ROM with the 18-TET lookup table.

Demo 2

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They are free downloads from his site. 

Here are demo videos for each collection:

Atari 2600 Kit for LSDJ

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Debussy LSDJ Action

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Sega Mega Drive Kit for LSDJ

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Donk Kit for the WAV Channel in LSDJ

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Sebastian Tomczak has created a free set of Debussy kits for the Game Boy music program LSDJ.

These kits contain samples from Voiles, Danseuses Dé Delphes and of course La Cathedrale Engloutie.

“These beautiful piano chords crushed down to 8 bit / 11.468 KHz actually sounds much better than I had anticipated,” notes Tomczak. 

If try these out, give Tomczak your feedback at his blog.

Little-Scale demos NanoGroover – a device that generates Nanoloop sync data for two Gameboys, letting you sync them in some interesting ways:

• Two in the time of four (double speed)
• Three in the time of four (three against four cross rhythms)
• Four in the time of four (1:1; the sync is equal)
• Five in the time of four (quintuplets)
• Six in the time of four (triplets)

There are also controls for controlling the speed of sync (via a potentiometer; aka a “knob”) and interrupting / stopping the sync signals for either Game Boy, so that it stops.

Sort of an awesomely insane project – details on the hack are available at the Little Scale site.

Arduino inside a Gameboy DMG for MIDI communication. Shows off example of custom midi -> gameboy cart.

Nanoloop 2.3 is a 4-track sequencer / synthesizer for Game Boy Advance. It works on GBA, GBA SP, GB Micro, DS and DS lite. A printed manual in CD-booklet size is included.

Here’s a demo of Nanoloop 2.3 in action from Flanboy:

Joey Nariano [animal-style] demonstrates his GBC Gameboy Foot Controller.

The Original Pixelh8 Music Tech Game Boy Synthesizer is a cartridge that fits into an unmodified game boy, letting you control the Game Boy’s on-board sound. You can edit the wave duty, pitch sweep and volume envelope as well as new additions such as unison, 5th power chords and octaves.

This updated version V2.0 allows for the addition of a Major 3rd, a Minor 3rd as well as All Major Keys, All Minor Keys, All Harmonic Minor Keys, All Whole Tone & All Pentatonic Keys.

As they say – that’s a lot of keys!

One possibility is Joey Mariano’s Gameboy Madrigals:

Early composers of the madrigal used only two to three voices to create counterpoint. Realizing the opportunity for reinterpretation through the gameboy sound chip, Joey Mariano set out to create a body of chiptune madrigals inspired by early RPG games, Japanese folk melodies, and masters of the madrigal such as Francesco Landini. A definite departure from his traditional approaches, Animal Style’s Gameboy Madrigals release strives to create a mood relying on melody and counterpoint instead of an ever-present, never-ending, bleed-your-ears-dry dance beat.

Gameboy Madrigals is a free album download.

Tracks:

01 Soldered Lovers
02 Plastic Penchant
03 Sentimental Secular Anomaly
04 Medieval Blues
05 Trecento 2008
06 Tokyo Cornfield in Antigravity
07 Gather ‘Round Retrograde
08 NiMH Melisma

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This video demo’s Midify, a DIY project that lets you add a MIDI port to a Game Boy.

The Game Boy SP is running a synthesizer cartridge that would normally have to be played on the Game Boy buttons. With Midify installed it can be played with a MIDI keyboard, sequencer or whatever.

Part 1

Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronised to the drums playing in Ableton (track 1). This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.

Part 2

Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronized to the drums playing in Ableton Live (track 1).

Says littlescale – “This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.”

kBANG ver 01 uses the new GameBrain cartridge, using SMD technology with 1 megabyte Flash and 16 out 8 in ports.

Promised with the ext release: speed control, save patch and mute channel – this was done in a week for Enter_ please see videos below.