Everyone and his grandma has heard of people playing live Nintendo music – from the occasional clip of individuals performing a tune, to entire live concerts. Not to mention the awesome metal covers by Minibosses! While all of this is extremely cool, I just saw something to put ‘em all to shame:

[Apparently I can't get the embedding to work correctly, so here's a link to the video clip instead. I'm really ashamed of myself.]

I admit it: I’m a pathetic little fanboy. I can’t stop grinning at the sight of the illustrious Mr. Hubbard himself chatting away about composing on the C-64. That’s something I never got into, myself – I never had any good software for it, so I never did more than the occasional sound effect. The idea of using a minimalistic piece of SID music and expanding it into full-blown orchestra composition is quite interesting. It reminds me of my own thoughts about achievement through restriction…but instead of remaining at that level, it is extrapolated into something much more.

Anyway, for those interested in the background to that clip above, check out the c64 orchestra page. Or check out the Edge article where I found the link originally. You’ll find other cool links there: for example, a mention of the Swedish book Otaku Sweden! Go! Go! and a link to some comments about this book that deals with famous Swedish chip musicians.

I know what I want for my birthday.

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