Did you by any chance mean chipmunk?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. music A piece of computer music in which the sounds are generated and mixed in realtime, common in the 1980s before the advent of mass storage for prerecorded sound.
Etymologies
- chip (i.e. sound chip) + tune (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Anamanaguchi is a punk band that's part of an underground music scene known as "chiptune," an emerging form of electronic music that creates a layered sound from limited technology: video-game systems from the '80s.”
“Anamanaguchi plays a bionic breed of punk called chiptune that relies on old video-game sound chips.”
“Photo: Courtesy blipfestival.org Videogame soundtracks may be on par with Hollywood film soundtracks these days, but the audio upgrade hasn't tempered the enthusiasm of "chiptune" artists who hack, tweak and repurpose old computers and videogame systems to make music of a surprising sonic variety.”
“They'll pogo and stage-dive away to the additive-laden sound of the "chiptune" bands playing live.”
“The new station's format features video game soundtracks & remixes, nerdcore hip-hop, and a heavy rotation of the emerging "chiptune" genre.”
“& remixes, nerdcore hip-hop, and a heavy rotation of the emerging "chiptune" genre.”
“chiptune" scene - music made using vintage home computers.”
“We also peeked into two developer studios with 2 Player Productions -- the company behind chiptune documentary Reformat the Planet -- visiting inFamous studio Sucker Punch, and Simon Parkin posting a photo set of his trip to Parappa the Rapper dev NanaOn-Sha, and saw the latest NES rom flier for NYC chiptune showcase Pulsewave.”
“We also listened to a preview of Alex Mauer's latest chiptune album to be released on an actual NES cart, saw Tale of Tales 'coming-of-age-horror-via-Red-Riding-Hood game The Path come to the Mac (with a new trailer that' sells 'the game more than anything they've showed thus far), and a new site dedicated to cataloging the internet's use of hidden Konami Code easter eggs, as was recently discovered (and, sadly, quickly yanked) on ESPN.”
“We also listened to (and downloaded sheet music for) the entirety of World of Goo's original soundtrack for solo piano and a chiptune sampler EP for an Ubuntu Linux release party.”
Lists
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music genre
list of music genres - anything. even the most obscure sub-genres of sub-genres
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We Have Both Kinds, Country and Western
a list of musical genres
chillwave, shoegazer, punk, emo, rap, hip-hop, trip-hop, be-bop, loungecore, nerdcore, grunge, grebo and 27 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
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Adorkables
Cute, sentimental, blush-worthy, and a little bit dorky.
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