My original idea for the musical cliche project was to write a piece using computer generated chip music. For those of you who don't know, chip music is the type of music that was produced by old video game systems, like the Atari 2600, NES and Sega Master System. Outside of music, my other main passion is video games, and particularly retro gaming at that, so I jumped at the opportunity to combine the two, let alone in a school setting. I have actually been writing chip music for a good few years now, but I mostly just write really tongue in cheek style imitations of actual Nintendo music that I listened to and enjoyed growing up as a kid (and still listen to). So I figured that writing chip music in a contemporary style would be something entirely new and exciting.
For various reasons though, mostly technical, I was unable to go through with this idea. While this was not entirely tragic as I found something else that was equally as satisfying to use as my cliche, I have still not given up on my chiptune idea. Although I am unsure what the specifics of our project will be next semester, I am hoping that I can somehow incorporate chip music. I have several ideas as to how I can incorporate it. I would like the chip music ot be recorded, and to have actual players, as I don't know when else I would have the chance to experiment with that type of thing, and musical I was thinking about quoting various well known NES melodies, but transforming them in a way that they would still be recognizable, but completely recontextualized.
hopefully the assignments next semester will allow me to do this. I guess I will have to wait and see.
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