Classical musicians have been trying for years to figure out how to hook younger generations. They might want to give Jackie Rodriguez a call. The clarinetist and cofounder of 8 Bit Wave had a ...

Composers found inspiration for their 8-bit and later 16-bit tunes everywhere, ranging from night clubs, to Hirokazu Tanaka's love of Reggae music. He's one of Nintendo's most famous composers who ...

And the pulse wave is the tweeter. And then there's noise, ... Any nostalgia that I have for 8-bit music is the 8-bit music I was making in high school with my friends.

The last time we had occasion to feature 8 Bit Weapon in this space, our man Seth had hacked his Nintendo Power Pad into a music controller. Now the team is back with something a little less ...

In the simplest of terms, 8-bit music is named so after the 8-bit sound processors that early games consoles like the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 employed.

Jeremy Kolosine is executive producer of 8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk Performed on Vintage 8-bit Video Game Systems. He talks about the project.

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.

The Very Best's "Let Go" isn't your standard-issue 8-bit-inspired music video. While it has all the fun and side-scrolling action of an 8-bit video, the clip also has something else: It was made ...

Adding to the genre of 8-bit minigames that are as emotionally resonant as great films, Rich Vreeland’s “January” uses blocky pixels and MIDI music to conjure up the wistful nostalgia of a ...

After decades of gaming, what makes 8-bit music in particular so memorable? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here’s a ...