The 8-Bit Big Band rehearses to a classic Super Mario game. (Photos courtesy of The 8-Bit Big Band) A full-size orchestra that plays video game music? Whoever heard of such a thing? For Los Angeles ...

Composer David Farrell started making 8-bit covers of Christmas songs several years ago for fun. Using tones roughly based on the sounds that an old Nintendo console makes, Farrell would generate the ...

In the basement of a Bowery Street bar in lower Manhattan a musician was working the crowd like a younger (and geekier) version of Keith Richards. Slung waist high was not a guitar, but a PC keyboard ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

On a typical day in 1992, the young guy who would go on to become the chip-rockers Anamanaguchi would be hanging out in their parents’ basement. Bottles of Jolt cola might be sitting next to a ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

This piece was performed at the Bent Festival a few years ago. Written by Jeremy Kolosine, it's called "I Bent My Heart in New York City," and it's played on a Gameboy, those little handheld devices ...

As far as the Internets go, Doctor Octoroc is the real deal — he's the animator, composer, and wizard behind more or less every good retro videogame parody online, like “Jersey Shore: The RPG,” “Game ...

Your retro-console has never sounded this good before! Featuring more than 15 original compositions by popular Japanese artists, 8-Bit Music Power Final puts chiptunes in your console, charming ...

The DSi it plays games, takes pictures, and plays music with features not on an iPod. Nintendo is including visualizers and one of them is based on Excitebike. The DSi also has a number of audio ...