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...fact, the jazz and video-game-music communities have remained largely separate until now. And yes, there is a video-game-music community - an extensive, primarily Internet-based collective of musicians who focus on a genre they call chiptune. Most enthusiasts are people in their 20s and 30s who find themselves drawn to the sounds of early video games, to blend those electronic bleeps and bloops with rock, pop and hip-hop. Chiptune is still relatively obscure: in 2007, hip-hop artist Timbaland got in trouble for sampling a tune composed by a Finnish chiptune musician...
Chiptune music is created through computer-programming code, and because of that, most musicians come to the medium through their interest in computers. They do not necessarily know how to play an instrument. "You write a program and feed it to the computer, which reads it as if it were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Ascher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician...
...disconnecting a console-radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he wired his guitar to radios stage right and left - voilà, stereo! "If you can be an engineer and a musician," he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in the 1999 Encyclopedia of Record Producers, "that's very complementary...
...also worked with songwriter Aimee Mann, country singer Brad Paisley and the electronic duo Lemon Jelly. Who else would you like to work with? Anybody. Any well-known musician would be a prime victim of mine. I would jump on their backs and stick my needle-like teeth in their throat and suck their musical blood. [Laughs...
Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson, the Musician...