gAtari - Atari 2600 chipmusic project by cTrix @ Blip Festival Tokyo 2011
Channel: debuglive
Date: 2011-11-18

Artist at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/cTrix/118258328189500
The "gAtari" was my excuse to do something a little silly after I discovered that the Atari 2600 was more limiting than I realized! (31 pitches, minimal waveforms and only 2 channels!)  I needed an EQ which could take a high voltage and drop it down to line level (Boss bass EQ) plus a way to hold loops between tracks and parts (Boss delay).  So rather than have it "DJ" style config, I thought I make something a little more creative.  It uses my atari-x-mod converter software which compiles binary files for Atari.  You can find a little video about it here: http://vimeo.com/23589320

Big ups to Celsius / Trash80 / nf / Lazerbeat for the audio recording.  Massive thankyou to sebastienvd81 & JDD3J  for shooting additional video footage.  Thanks to Wing / Celsius / Abrasive for their assistance and filming.  Mega-thanks to Paul Slocum for the maco asm code for 2600 that I based my software around interfacing with :-)

Come to Blip Festival Melbourne 2012!

ps. You can download a similar set to the one I played here at at: http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/cTrix/Blip_Festival_2011-cTrix/cTrix_-_Live_at_BLIP_NYC_2011