MIDIBOX SID + Garbage In Garbage Out, the sound of the 8 bits.

MIDIBOX SID

Computer twenty years ago (like the Commodore and Atari) are the tools of the trade of a large community of composers, which is recognized under the label of music '8-bit 'and consists considerable amount of tunes using these antiquated technologies. is very wide community of enthusiasts who gather around the recovery and reuse of these old equipment, often modifying them to exploit their pioneering to the bone and its special characteristics. In this sense, one of the 'most brutal cannibalization of a home computer for musical purposes is MIDIBOX SID , in which a Commodore 64 of the first series has been transformed into a real independent synthesizer with lots of MIDI interface, able to exploit the famous 6581 SID sound chip with a recognizable sounds even many years later. Another feature of these machines was being equipped with primordial mass storage devices, ie cassette. To recycle a few of the many tapes containing software sold during the eighties is the installation GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) , in which 6 cassette recorders are 'playing' old tapes containing as many games in vogue. The data of the time are interpreted by a computer to direct as many generative music software, determining the processes of creation of melodies. When the tapes come to an end on the screen starts flashing a cubital 'NO DATA', which encourages visitors to quickly insert a new cassette, continuing indefinitely this virtuous process of generating induced.