i bought the best album i think i've ever bought today.

tristan perich released a record [of sorts] on Cantaloupe Music, called 1-BIT MUSIC. and yes it is exactly what it sounds like, music made from digital squarewaves cycling between values of 1 and 0, the faster the oscillation, the higher the frequency (pitch) this musical programming style is characteristic of many "nintendo core" musicians, coined that way thanks to the low bit rate capabilites of early digital game consols like nintendo, atari, and even commodore 64. the thing that makes me so happy about tristans release is that, he not only makes the music by actually programming the notes, he burns the tracks not onto a cd, but onto an atmel atmega8 microcontroller, which is soldered to a battery, an on/off switch, a track advance button, and to volume pots which control the individual L/R output volumes of the headphone jack also soldered onto the chip. what's more is that the entire circuit is glued into a cd case.

i started this blog because i wanted to talk about electronic music, but i didn't have any good material to talk about. hence this is my first post.

for more information, check out

tristanperich.com
cantaloupemusic.com
onebitmusic.com