Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted ...

It's gotten easier and easier to make chiptune music (or at least, music that sounds like chiptune music), but for the most part, you'll still need to have some sort of digital audio workstation ...

Chiptune sounds have been bubbling up into the mainstream for years. The Timbaland-­produced 50 Cent single “Ayo Technology” (from 2007) and Kesha’s 2009 hit “Tik Tok” both brought NES ...

Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings. The performance on a recent Friday was part of Blip Festival, a four ...

NEW YORK – Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses.As ...

The BBC's Matt Danzico reports on a emerging breed of gamer-centric music called chiptune, which uses aged video game electronics to create sounds.

Astro likens chiptune to being the punk of electronic music. When he was a kid he didn’t have access to traditional instruments, so he learned to make beats on his Gameboy.

Chiptune artists are “considered freaks in the electronic music scene, because we’re trying, almost deliberately in a way, to not do pop songs and stuff like that,” said Montreal-based ...

Their slant on chiptune is that they combine those tones with Japanese folk music (Minyo), occasionally reaching towards funk, hip-hop, and classical music (as shown in his marvelous rendition of ...

Chiptune music itself is based on early video game music and is all about capturing the classic tones found in games consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nintendo Game Boy and ...