The album is now on its way to streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music! This process can take days or weeks depending on the platform, but hang in there. Or get the mp3s (link in description) if you're oldschool.
"There isn't much text in the C64 ROM-again because of size constraints-and what's there is mostly concerned with cases where something has gone wrong. So if there's a soul in this machine, it seems to be a troubled soul, disconsolate and wistful." To look at it another way, what it shows is for the c64, when things are good, nothing need be said.
@@OwMeEd I would say that some parts are composed and some others are procedurally generated. For example the melody from "a mind is born" is generated from a seed carefully chosen to be pleasant to hear. So I guess the songs of this album are manually ordered around generated parts. Also you probably don't know who Jim Leonard is :D
@@OwMeEd I'm not a bot. I'm not "accusing" the compositions of being procedurally-generated, but of course many elements are generated, most notably arpeggios, at the direction of Linus. Of course they were composed, but to get everything to fit into ~512b of data per song, of course the player must do some generation.
What I find a bit spooky is that there is no reason this would NOT exist back in the 80’s. Enthusiasts did put two SID chips in back in the day as well, though it probably was not that common. I am not aware of any significant productions that utilised this configuration, though it must exist if people did the dual SID thing.
Sidechain ducking on a C64 combined with a multitasking scripting engine and LFSRs to build songs. Only lft would come up with something so crazy yet absolutely awesome
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redo from start is a right earworm - it's been in my head for weeks! Ignoring how technically impressive this "album" is for a moment (and it is), redo from start is just a great tune - the lovely SID filter gradually opening up, with all of the warmth and the distortion it brings, the illusion of a "compressor" that's sync'd to the bass drum, and then the "pop" bit at the end of that - all brilliant!
I'm so happy you've evolved the human/C64 relationship this far!😂🧠💢💚💙💙 I'm amazed at the breadth and depth you've wrangled from 4k bits, that's some novel boolean packing of angels on pinheads. I really want to go dancing at an 8bit Only party now, that was a great 4/4 progression to the last 2 tracks, which I think were right bangers...::🌥🛸🎼🎶🎵 Thank you for sharing, you've inspired me into a better trajectory!😄🐾🐾
You rock, lft! Thanks for sharing so many inspiring and entertaining projects. Also, thanks for helping me figure out channel mixing via saturating lookup-table. Geek on!
Interesting mix of EDM music (all those risers and other cliches), characteristic SID sound and melody lines coming from more traditional genres. Good stuff! I will definiteli listen it again.
Simple tools? 😮 it is probably hours of painstaking assembly level programming. 😅 I even suspect he made his own music editor to go with the play routine as well, though it may have been developed and enhanced over the years. I am not 100% sure about this process, of course, maybe an idea for Linus to make a “Making of” video at some point so we all can learn something from his process? I know he has done talks in the past, so hopefully it is not too foreign a thought for him. 😊
When Linus posts something new, you never get disappointed. Amazing! Edit: the drum sounds are absolutely insane, that it is hard to fathom that is is made by dual SID chips. The hardware really was ahead of its time.
These sound like SID covers of 90s-2000s songs i would have listened the HELL out of. I really want to hear non-sid versions of all of them, with female vocals! Like the good old days.
Amazing how you manage to come up with stuff like this. Usually things that are gimmicky or technically impressive sound awful, but you managed to make something that was not only technically impressive but also sound great too
Ahhaha, awesome! What a step-up, didn't expect such a serious project. Really cool. Titles fitting on so many levels with the current mainstream "AI"-craze... I swear I'd like if I had this in a spotify playlist to listen in the car... thanks for the downloadables, will have to find a good carplay//aauto compatible music player.
Impressive. For sure producers who use modern DAWs can achieve more polished results but when you think that Steinberg recommends 8Gb of RAM to run Cubase you have to ask yourself: is anyone obtaining results that are 2 milliom times better than this brilliant album using modern productiom tools? Because the ratio of 8Gb to 4096 bytes is about 2 million. It just goes to show that once your reach a minimum of technical resources achieving more artistically is about practice, effort, talent, and imagination. This is one of the best examples of this in the whole retro tech movement which is making us question the development path that our civilization has taken lately. You have to realise that all our consumer technology emerged from the efforts of eco-hippies who built microcomputers in their basements while dreamimg about self-sufficient communities in harmony with nature. How did this turn into a never-ending race for more computing power, higher specs, rising energy consumption and carbon emissions, and an ever-increasing pile of poisonous junk in the form of unloved, bricked gear that is capable of amazing things but whose potential is never realised because the next future brick has to be acquired at all costs? Great music and an inspiration to action.
love it! I wondered... did you ever consider to add an echofication algorithm? Simply put that is sampling the SID output and add it as a sample after some delay... it's awesome!
Hate seeing fake myths about neuralscience perpetuated. The hemispheres of your brain do not have a direct or indirect correlation to creative or structured thinking. ONE DUDE said that 100 years ago and for some reason it persists as fact even though it's been proven objectively false repeatedly.
I don't think people understand. 4kb was pretty much one 3 channel song including player back when I was in the demo scene. So fitting 7 songs into 4kb is a feat in itself. Device not present is a real banger IMO. I must also confess I came here thinking it was Machine Learning. AKA that it was AI produced from training it on a set of 8-bit songs XDDD
Kind of weird to put it on a medium with almost 200,000 times the storage space, but I would buy this on CD if it was released and the sending fees were affordable!
while I'm not a fan of the loud thumping beat (just like regular music, but e.g. during the more active parts of songs such as Overflow and Redo From Start it's pretty great level, a supporting part, instead of being the loudest part present) *but I cannot deny that it is pretty dang great set of music*
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The album is now on its way to streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music! This process can take days or weeks depending on the platform, but hang in there. Or get the mp3s (link in description) if you're oldschool.
You open to remixes?
Yes, let's go with CC-BY-NC 4.0. Thanks for asking!
the error-codes-for-titles is such a cool optimization / creative driver
I think I remember those from the error codes from C64 BASIC.
"There isn't much text in the C64 ROM-again because of size constraints-and what's there is mostly concerned with cases where something has gone wrong. So if there's a soul in this machine, it seems to be a troubled soul, disconsolate and wistful."
To look at it another way, what it shows is for the c64, when things are good, nothing need be said.
This is a shining example of compositional talent, procedurally-generated music, and programming skill. It's what makes me glad I'm part of the scene.
Which part is procedurally generated?
You must be a bot. This is composed, nothing to do with machine/deep learning.
@@OwMeEd I would say that some parts are composed and some others are procedurally generated. For example the melody from "a mind is born" is generated from a seed carefully chosen to be pleasant to hear. So I guess the songs of this album are manually ordered around generated parts. Also you probably don't know who Jim Leonard is :D
@@OwMeEd Was there someone here whose comment was deleted? Because I see nobody mentioning machine or deep learning
@@OwMeEd I'm not a bot. I'm not "accusing" the compositions of being procedurally-generated, but of course many elements are generated, most notably arpeggios, at the direction of Linus. Of course they were composed, but to get everything to fit into ~512b of data per song, of course the player must do some generation.
It feels like I'm listening to commodore music from a world that is not quite like ours
What I find a bit spooky is that there is no reason this would NOT exist back in the 80’s.
Enthusiasts did put two SID chips in back in the day as well, though it probably was not that common.
I am not aware of any significant productions that utilised this configuration, though it must exist if people did the dual SID thing.
Sidechain ducking on a C64 combined with a multitasking scripting engine and LFSRs to build songs. Only lft would come up with something so crazy yet absolutely awesome
This channel is truly something else.
so is your name
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It's always crazy to think that this audio of the video is coming on lowest settings at peak 128 kbps and HD theoretically 384 kb...per second.
Wasn't expecting 2SID house from you, nice one!
One of my favourite things about Linus - SID, piano, accordion - classical, house... genres and instruments are but a medium.
redo from start is a right earworm - it's been in my head for weeks! Ignoring how technically impressive this "album" is for a moment (and it is), redo from start is just a great tune - the lovely SID filter gradually opening up, with all of the warmth and the distortion it brings, the illusion of a "compressor" that's sync'd to the bass drum, and then the "pop" bit at the end of that - all brilliant!
I'm so happy you've evolved the
human/C64 relationship this far!😂🧠💢💚💙💙
I'm amazed at the breadth and depth you've wrangled from 4k bits, that's some novel boolean packing of angels on pinheads.
I really want to go dancing at an 8bit Only party now, that was a great 4/4 progression to the last 2 tracks, which I think were right bangers...::🌥🛸🎼🎶🎵
Thank you for sharing, you've inspired me into a better trajectory!😄🐾🐾
Well now I gotta find another SID chip to listen to this properly. SO good
I can't fathom how all this great music was crammed into 4k
You rock, lft! Thanks for sharing so many inspiring and entertaining projects. Also, thanks for helping me figure out channel mixing via saturating lookup-table. Geek on!
Simply astounding what a creative genius can come up with given the limitations of the hardware/software platform.
In this case self-imposed constraints, as I don't think there's much reason to keep the music under 4 KiB!
Of all the possible 4096-byte long programs, this one might be the coolest ;)
Interesting mix of EDM music (all those risers and other cliches), characteristic SID sound and melody lines coming from more traditional genres. Good stuff! I will definiteli listen it again.
You manage to use simple tools exceptionally well, Linus. Kudos!
Simple tools? 😮 it is probably hours of painstaking assembly level programming. 😅
I even suspect he made his own music editor to go with the play routine as well, though it may have been developed and enhanced over the years.
I am not 100% sure about this process, of course, maybe an idea for Linus to make a “Making of” video at some point so we all can learn something from his process?
I know he has done talks in the past, so hopefully it is not too foreign a thought for him. 😊
@@roygalaasen Simple tools are the hardest to use (well) because there's less automation.
@@roygalaasen By "simple" I mean unsophisticated, rather. =) Fewer instructions, less space, more constraints.
When Linus posts something new, you never get disappointed. Amazing!
Edit: the drum sounds are absolutely insane, that it is hard to fathom that is is made by dual SID chips. The hardware really was ahead of its time.
This is fenomenal! Deserves recognition and many more views.
I keep coming back to this video, it is a work of technical and artistic genius
This is so freaking good. Forget the 4kb challenge, the music is totally amazing.
Yeh
Amazing as always. You never cease to impress!
More brilliance from lft. Absolutely amazing.
"redo from start" had me bobbing my head around pretty good!
These sound like SID covers of 90s-2000s songs i would have listened the HELL out of. I really want to hear non-sid versions of all of them, with female vocals! Like the good old days.
Very nice stuff. And the fact it's only 4KB makes it even more brilliant :)
another stone cold home run! amazing work my friend.
loved it! Especially that last track, great atmosphere & synth feels
Crunchy bass
Amazing how you manage to come up with stuff like this.
Usually things that are gimmicky or technically impressive sound awful, but you managed to make something that was not only technically impressive but also sound great too
It’s me, I’m the yearning machine
I hope this is the beginning of an era of sizecoded musicdisks! Brilliant work!
I have been following your projects for over a decade and I am always so impressed with them. Thanks for inspiring the nerd in me.
holy fuck not the size, but the music quality ? I just found myself listening and listening, and great song titles :D
This is really promising, my favorite section was that section just after 6:00. Awesome buildup and crow-pleaser base drop @ 21:00 too :)
So incredibly melodic. Using the error messages is just beautiful. And thanks for making it available on Spotify!
Ahhaha, awesome! What a step-up, didn't expect such a serious project. Really cool. Titles fitting on so many levels with the current mainstream "AI"-craze...
I swear I'd like if I had this in a spotify playlist to listen in the car... thanks for the downloadables, will have to find a good carplay//aauto compatible music player.
Once again I find myself amazed and surprised by your work. Much applause.
Some true bangers, takes me back 20 years when this kind of music had a revival .
nice work!
Brilliant. Genius!
Impressive is an understatement. This is WOW, World of Wonder!!!
😮 omg this is amazing on so many levels…
Impressive. For sure producers who use modern DAWs can achieve more polished results but when you think that Steinberg recommends 8Gb of RAM to run Cubase you have to ask yourself: is anyone obtaining results that are 2 milliom times better than this brilliant album using modern productiom tools? Because the ratio of 8Gb to 4096 bytes is about 2 million. It just goes to show that once your reach a minimum of technical resources achieving more artistically is about practice, effort, talent, and imagination. This is one of the best examples of this in the whole retro tech movement which is making us question the development path that our civilization has taken lately. You have to realise that all our consumer technology emerged from the efforts of eco-hippies who built microcomputers in their basements while dreamimg about self-sufficient communities in harmony with nature. How did this turn into a never-ending race for more computing power, higher specs, rising energy consumption and carbon emissions, and an ever-increasing pile of poisonous junk in the form of unloved, bricked gear that is capable of amazing things but whose potential is never realised because the next future brick has to be acquired at all costs? Great music and an inspiration to action.
division by zero is a bopper! and i really like device not present. this whole thing is great, you know.
Wow. Just wow Linus! This is the best thing I've seen in along time. Mind-blown!❤
I love every aspect of this.
This is sick
Fascinating… EOL
this is the kind of dream an electric sheep would have. This album can teach ML models how to feel (based off of the album name)
0:52 Chipsters!
Jokes aside, this album is my goto when I need some focus time,
Thank you for this wonderful composition!
Superb, I just wish you'd found a way to include "A Mind is Born" :)
Thank you!
Thanks!
The master has returned.
Absolute legend.
So cool as always!
beautiful
Loving this from the very first track.
Fantastic, going to give this several more spins
Inspiring.
Can't wait for the follow-up single: "bad subscript"
What a banger!
I love how the video we are watching is many many Megabytes but the origin is only 4kb
Another technical masterpiece!
26 MINUTES IN 4096 BYTES
RESPECT
Wow, well done. So inspiring!
Very well done my friend!
I really love this music, and I'd love to hear what it sounds like without EQ or reverb.
Just go ahead, all you need is the hw and an anechoic chamber. :-) You can also search for other recordings on TH-cam.
You don't fail to impress!
Excellent use of such limited hardware capabilities too!!
That's pure ingenious magic as well!!!
love it!
I wondered... did you ever consider to add an echofication algorithm? Simply put that is sampling the SID output and add it as a sample after some delay... it's awesome!
Out of melody errors? None to be found here! ❤
Outstanding!
Be cool as a vinyl release. You could put the audio on 1 side and the data on the other.
He'd probably embed the visuals too.
Maybe you misread the title, it's dual SID, not dual side. :-)
incredible.
Love seeing the left brain and right brain working in tandem.
Great work.
Hate seeing fake myths about neuralscience perpetuated.
The hemispheres of your brain do not have a direct or indirect correlation to creative or structured thinking.
ONE DUDE said that 100 years ago and for some reason it persists as fact even though it's been proven objectively false repeatedly.
Is that another dual SID reference? :-)
very cool
Made my day! 🕹️
Very cool ♥
Very cool album, lft!
Division by Zero is seriously awesome (said no one ever, until now)
That's too good, again.
Listening to this as I am programming in Vice
Cool
Friend, you remind me to puffy64 :)
hugs ♥
I don't think people understand. 4kb was pretty much one 3 channel song including player back when I was in the demo scene. So fitting 7 songs into 4kb is a feat in itself. Device not present is a real banger IMO. I must also confess I came here thinking it was Machine Learning. AKA that it was AI produced from training it on a set of 8-bit songs XDDD
Kind of weird to put it on a medium with almost 200,000 times the storage space, but I would buy this on CD if it was released and the sending fees were affordable!
🔥🔥🔥
wow wooow woo god damn wow
You are such an inspiring artist. Tappar hakan varje gång du laddar up något.
while I'm not a fan of the loud thumping beat (just like regular music, but e.g. during the more active parts of songs such as Overflow and Redo From Start it's pretty great level, a supporting part, instead of being the loudest part present)
*but I cannot deny that it is pretty dang great set of music*
I'd rather not have a thump-bass, rather than have it overshadow the interesting bits, myself
Best album I've heard in years! 👌
👌🏻✨
Will this end up on spotify/apple music? loving it! Would love to buy a copy!
cool
I think a good name for a chiptune would be "Fork Bomb", unless that already exists somewhere.
Detta rockar röv!!!
If you make a vinyl pressing i would buy it!
Super stuff. The song names are picked from Basic ROM right?
I wonder how much time you spent in average per byte on this.
Isn't that a great unit for such demos? Like minutes per byte.