demoscene mentioned on the bbc
category: general [glöplog]
Quote:
Mr Johnson says chiptune music was originally derived from the Demoscene of the 1980s, a computer art subculture which saw musicians, graphic designers, and algorithmic programmers joining forces to produce real-time artistic presentations on computers.
"The goal was really to do technically impressive things with these pieces of hardware. Sort of push them to their limits," Mr Johnson says, referring to the 1980s movement.
"In many ways, chip music was born into that scene and splintered off into its own movement," he says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12774683
The article is mainly about chiptunes, but its nice to get a mention.
BBC? that's it, the scene is dead (=not underground)
don't worry, he's only talking about the demoscene of the 1980s.
It's nice to see them get the description right at least. We're not hackers and pirates for a change :)
....isn't chiptunes just derived from the 8bit machines, c64 in particular? The demoscene kept it alive, but surely the origins are not the demoscene?
What, exactly, is demoscene? and where can I get demoscenes?
Do not try to comprehend the demoscene — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no demoscene.
to understand the demoscene, one must become 8-bit.
the moment David Attenborough shows up at Revision to make a documentary about our species, im sooooo outtahere!!!!
No exploding van? :(
The 0x0000FF or 0xFF0000-colored pill? Tricky.
March is the month of trolls, I see them everywhere.
I thought demoscene had really arrived on TV when Eurovision was broadcast from Finland (after Lordi won the year previously) - part of something from Assembly was shown as one of the intros to an act, which was rather interesting and highly amusing ! ;)
