What is Chiptune? It's pretty much video game music, in that its producers use sounds that are made by or put together in succession by computers or video game consoles. Confused?
Chiptunes origins are found in Video Game Music, which in 70's and 80's was quite primitive and involved using a computer chip would change electrical impulses from computer code into analog sound waves* in real time that produced the digital music that your old console would pump out.
Chiptune music has thrived in recent years. The internet has given Chiptune artists the ability to connect and share processes and ideas. Organisations like Creative Commons has aided the development of artists and help them learn their craft through it's open source enviroments.
Chiptune has evolved from its humble 8-bit beginnings with producers developing new ways to synthesize their sounds to create more complex sound scapes and approaching their projects with a more melodic sensibility.
The limitations in Chiptune are few, and the increase in technology fuels its fire. Whether it takes off as a commercially viable musical genre remains to be seen, but you get the feeling that it's creators are happy with things just the way they are.
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*Pilfered from Wikipedia
A Compilation of popular Chiptune Tracks
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