Back around 2009/2010, I started making chiptune music and regularly attending (and eventually setting up) chiptune shows. There was not a local scene for this type of music in Rochester, NY so I mostly engaged with this community via the internet using now defunct websites like 8bitcollective and watching videos from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
As I became more and more interested in chiptune music, I also became more and more interested in the visual art being projected behind the performers. Traveling to Blip Festival 2011 and seeing Party Time! Hexcellent! perform with Noisewaves was hugely influential. I would eventually discover Batsly Adams and marvel at the elegance of his creativity.
Finally, I would find videos like those from the Playpower Foundation and bury myself in assembly code, mining whatever wisdom I could from No Carrier’s website.
This all led to the creation of the setup you see below.
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