8 Nintendo Famicoms make sweet music

by Vladimir Cole { Nov 9th 2005 at 4:30PM }

The musician known as 6955 isn't any old two-bit fiddler. He's strung together an array of eight Nintendo Famicoms (pictured here) and linked 'em to a Roland TR-606 and uses it all to make some thumpy, industrial 8-bit music.

We are both scared and excited for the 8-bit music movement to tip into mainstream acceptance. You might say it already has, what with Beck incorporating music generated on Game Boys into his music, but we'd like to see one of the 8-bit-boys (or girls) make it big.

[Via FFWD link log]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Prof_Chaos @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Holy Crap,

Where the hell did he get 8 working Famicoms without selling his soul for them?

Ed "Oscuro" Herdman @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

FCs aren't as expensive as you'd think ;)

Nullsleep @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

Especially considering that he lives in Japan.

This is definitely a cool project, particularly from a conceptual standpoint. See also the MidiNES (www.wayfar.net) which x|k used to produce all the music on "Nestek" (his release at www.8bitpeoples.com)

Fortyseven @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

*throb*

Nice.

ZeroCorpse @ Dec 18th 2005 9:06PM

No sir, I don't like it.

This whole "8-bit music" craze has GOT to go. I lived through 8-bit music back in the early days of synthesizers. The goal back then was to get past the cheap-sounding sounds to a day when we had realistic-sounding synths. Now that we have realistic-sounding synths, people are trying to bring back the 8-bit junk.

Leave it dead and bury, I say. If you aren't careful, you're going to inspire the return of disco, then we'll all be screwed.