Chip Wave

Chip Wave is a form of electronic dance music that fuses the sounds of New Wave, Chicago acid house. electro, Hi-nrg, post-punk, Italo Disco, with instrumentation of the Commodore 64, Amiga, Texas Instruments, or Atari music workstations used to synthesize sound. It was started in 1988 out of the Chicago house scene and NYC Cabaret. Chip Wave was coined by its originator Nico Demonte who has introduced the genre by using the Commodore 64, Amiga 500, Atari, TRS-80 and other vintage computers.

The Chip Wave sound is broadcast in Chicago, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Detroit. Artists like Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, Commodore 64 Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Euro Lipstick, Hillary Snyder (A.K.A. DJ: Unknown) of XM 80 Satellite Radio show REDUX, and labels like mp3death, xxnaughty wood, HEXAWE, Scatologics, Xylophone Jones, and Computer Music.

Chip Wave artists use a number of electronic instruments and synthesizers, MIDI sequencing, live video performance using the EJ Midi Turntable and ScratchTV, but the microprocessor seems to be the likely instrument of choice. Chip Wave evolved out of the attempts to resurrect old computer systems that created music like the Commodore Amiga CD32, the Acorn Archimedes, magnetic cartridges, hand-held sequencers, and emulation of Physical Modeling/Hardware Design: Protel, OpenGL, SolidWorks, Blender, Commodore SX-100, SXE MIDI Music composer synthesizer, Sequential Circuits, MITS Altair 8800, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), Plato (computer system), PLATO IV, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Atari 8-bit family, Zenith Z-100 and (later)Radio Shack TRS-80 &; IBM PC. GROOVE hybrid computer music system, Executive 64 with 170 KB floppy, Commodore 264, Commodore C16 / 116, Commodore 364, Commodore 232, Commodore 116 NTSC Prototype, MAX Machine, Commodore 1541C, Yamaha YM2149 Yamaha_YM2149 on the Atari ST AY-3-8910 AY-3-8910, and Commodore 128, AY-3-8910 or 8912 on Amstrad CPC, MSX and ZX SpectrumA1200 computers, Little Sound Dj, Nanoloop, Commodore KIM-1, Commodore CBM-II, SuperPET, Plus/4, sound on the 6510 Central Processor, Ricoh 2A03 on the Nintendo Entertainment System or , homebrewed cartridge, GEOS Operating System, C65, C-One, Konami SCC Konami_SCC the Yamaha YM2413 Yamaha_YM2413 (MSX-MUSIC) and Yamaha Y8950 (MSX-AUDIO, 8051 assembler, Python, C/C++, PIC/AVR C/Assembler, the Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datassette, analog-digital hybrid Atari POKEY on the Atari 400/800, MATLAB, FORTRAN, MIT Scheme, Java, MySQL, PHP, Max/MSP.

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