Sam Ascher-Weiss

The dream team back again!

This is music on the piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb55MUjrw4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUIXqoX4XBc

coooool super joined. I like the style =)

Gario, it's VRC6, I have these all as NSFs, they could be played on a famicom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1bDNJAzO0g This is part of the official release of kind of bloop. Part of Track 04 "all blues" recorded on camcorder directly from Famitracker. If you like what you see/hear believe me you'll enjoy the album version much more. Don't hesitate to grab a copy: http://www.kindofbloop.com

Thanks a ton Larry, andrew and everybody. IN other news.. ALBUM IS NOW OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=581953#581953

Okay.. I'm happy now, it's still not something I actually said, but it's no longer a viewpoint that's significantly destructive to the image of chiptunes as a worthwhile pursuit

jesus.. all she did is remove the word unpleasant... I've asked her to just take me out of the article completely

lets wait to see what she replaces it with...

Good news, Claire has agreed to change the quote... should be live soon.

"mario 1 had great compositions but the actual textures are somewhat unpleasant in contrast to soundtracks that followed many of which are absolutely gorgeous just on a purely sonic level.. let alone as compositions. The intro to solstice is a good example" and way later "there are fringe elements of the community that take masochistic pleasure in doing things just because they are difficult, luckily though there are many methods available that are very intuitive and easy to use, all of us kind of bloop artists had tools that made things really easy and approachable, like famitracker developed by jsr, just a really excellent easy to use tool" that's pretty much word for word what I actually said.. it's the only possible thing I can think of that she could be using in her mind to justify this.

"It's probably the most limiting form of music-making I can think of," he says. "You're making somewhat unpleasant music with outdated computers. You need a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do." http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1917577,00.html I am absolutely livid I spoke to the woman on the phone, apparently she didn't like anything I actually said.. so she decided to completely fabricate quotes. I don't mind somebody making me say things that are lame.. however... having me say something that contradicts everything I believe about the nature of a genre I'm extremely passionate about: "It's probably the most limiting form of music-making I can think of," he says. "You're making somewhat unpleasant music with outdated computers. You need a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do." I spent nearly 20 minutes gushing over how beautiful chiptunes are and how much fun they are to write and how they are a pursuit as noble and intricate as writing for full orchestra... ------------------------------ (zircon edit) PLEASE DIGG THIS STORY: http://digg.com/arts_culture/TIME_fabricates_quote_betrays_views_of_chiptune_artist If you're on Twitter, retweet this - "DIGG/retweet please! TIME fabricates quote, betrays views of indie chiptune artist - http://bit.ly/ZeDmK (Digg)" ----------------------- LT EDIT: To summarize what happened for the first post, Sam's purported statement in the TIME article... ...was synthesized from this... ...in order for the article's author to form her narrative, and the synthesized quote distorted Sam's genuine POV. After banging his head though, Sam contacted the author, and eventually... Seems like Sam's satisfied with the article revision, but everything's still here for posterity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDdHpXBzBPE

ah, neat thing about the smb1 video, I managed to fit all four songs onto a single multitrack nsf, kind of like a real soundtrack

very shortly I'll be posting mp3 and nsf links in all the video descriptions, I'll post here when it's done

this is an album preview for the upcoming album "music of games, alternate reality edition" I thought it would be funny to replace the themes used in the NES version of tetris with other less appropriate songs that are also "russian" by some reckoning =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5McvFKsk8

Great idea, really fun!

lol this was never nor will it be submitted to OCR

I heard this song at rite aid first and then in a supermarket... it's crazy simple but I think it has a quiet beauty to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sHA-ZUUWkY

Coop, nobody should be going to zophar's domain for nes music: http://akumunsf.good-evil.net/ waayyyyyy more complete and accurate, basically every soundtrack for every nes game EVER!

Damn!!! Rayza's undeniably magical! Utterly lyrical timbres, it mixes atmosphere with a strong rhythm....overtly brilliant basslines.. Everything's DELICIOUS!!!!