Essay: Anders Carlsson's aka GOTO80's "A retrospective on the stories and aesthetics of 8­bit music"

"A retrospective on the stories and aesthetics of 8­bit music" is a killer essay by Anders Carlsson aka GOTO80 on Chipflip, originally written for inclusion in an art catalogue - the exhibition in case is Lu Yang’s ANTI-HUMANISM at the OK Corral gallery in Copenhagen. The essay is full of interesting considerations about the history, aesthetics, and evolution of chipmusic. Here's an excerpt:

I realised something. The techno­determinist story of “anything made with sound-chips is chipmusic” was ahistorical, anti­cultural, and ultimately: anti­human. Sure, there was something very emancipating about saying “I can do whatever I want and still fit into this scene that I’m part of”. That’s quite ideal in many ways, when you think about it. (GOTO80)

Submitted by Matteoi Bittanti