One of the more unusual winners at last night’s Grammys were the 8-Bit Big Band, who picked up the Best Arrangement ...

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 ...

A. Video game music is similar to generalized bodies of music in the past, such as the Great American Songbook, top 40, and jazz standards. Because there was a collective experience of consuming video ...

The bleeps and bloops from vintage video games like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Land and Mega Man are being celebrated this weekend at a new festival. Boston Bitdown is a three-day bash with dozens of ...

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 ...

The 80s were the golden age of synthesizers in pop music. Hugely complicated setups that spared no expense were the norm, with synths capable of recreating anything from pianos and guitars to ...

Since John Milton’s Paradise Lost was first published in 1667, many artists have attempted to visualize the biblical epic. The three-minute video is not a faithful or exhaustive visualization of the ...

The DSi it plays games, takes pictures, and plays music with features not on an iPod. Nintendo is including visualizers and one of them is based on Excitebike. The DSi also has a number of audio ...

Your retro-console has never sounded this good before! Featuring more than 15 original compositions by popular Japanese artists, 8-Bit Music Power Final puts chiptunes in your console, charming ...