Video game music: not just kid stuff is one of my favourite papers from a few years back, because it is arguing for something that I have long believed: writing music for devices with limited sound processing capabilities involves a different way of thinking about the composition. To play some sound effects on the NES, you had to momentarily disable the background music’s percussion channel (this channel itself being made up of intermittent bursts of static). I’ve always found it more interesting to design within restrictions (or “engaging constraint”), which I suppose is one of the resons I was attracted to web design all those years ago.
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- Scare Chord - Television Tropes & Idioms
- Daft Punk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mellotron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Top 5 Greatest Band Names - Delta Tango Bravo
- Esteban Found!
- Shuki Levy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Daft Punk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shuki Levy (Hebrew: שוקי לוי; born June 3, 1947 in Tel Aviv, Israel (at the time the British Mandate of Palestine) is a music composer and television writer, director, and executive producer. Levy's best known work is soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s, such as Inspector Gadget, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., Dinosaucers, Dragon Quest, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Eagle Riders (the third Western adaptation of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman), She-Ra, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. In the 1990s, he became known chiefly for his work on the Power Rangers franchise
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - A History of Rap: Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake & The Roots - Video - NBC.com
- Everything Is A Remix on Devour.com
Part one of a short series on the art and culture (and seamy underbelly) of remixing. This one could also be subtitled, "Led Zeppelin: Retard Rockers."
- YouTube - Gavin Friday - Apologia
- Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The Killers: Sam's Town
Rock music in the 21st century has been subject to an unprecedented emotional arms race of Cold War proportions. Displaced from its traditional role of party music by dance and hip-hop, rock has focused more than ever on introspection, aiming for resonant feelings rather than escapist fun. Hence, pop-punk has given way to emo, hard rock acts dust off the power ballad to get airplay, and groups like Coldplay and Green Day fill stadiums with soul-searching anthems. It's only natural that the emotional ante would be rapidly rising, until it reaches the climax of triggering arena-rock's nuclear option: The Boss.