Composer David Farrell started making 8-bit covers of Christmas songs several years ago for fun. Using tones roughly based on the sounds that an old Nintendo console makes, Farrell would generate the ...

Big-band jazz and video games normally come from different eras, if not different universes. It took Charlie Rosen — Berklee graduate, Broadway composer, lifelong gamer and leader of the 8-Bit Big ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console. Adam Bolton is a contributor ...

The 8-Bit Big Band, under the direction of Tony-nominee Charlie Rosen, has released their third full length album, Backwards Compatible. An exploration of the "Great Video Game Songbook'', this ...

You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers. But ...

This piece was performed at the Bent Festival a few years ago. Written by Jeremy Kolosine, it's called "I Bent My Heart in New York City," and it's played on a Gameboy, those little handheld devices ...

Hit movies spawn dozens of videogames a year, but this may be the first time a music video has served as the basis for one. On Tuesday, Mobigames released Trucker's Delight, a retro-styled racing game ...

Sunday Lectures is a weekly roundup of the internet’s most interesting educational videos. Get smarter without getting out of bed. Professor David Harper of the University of Wellington doesn’t think ...

Jazz pop orchestra The 8-Bit Big Band won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella last night for their gospel Super Mario remix. “Holy shit we just won another Grammy. So ...