The bitbuf

The bitbuf is a portable 8-bit minimalistic live looping machine. Designed as a tool for chip music improvisation and live performances, it aims to provide a set of simple yet versatile features. It's a work in progress, but I've made a prototype which is already quite functional and enjoyable to work with. Read more.

• lft_bitbuf_presentation (Video, 646 MB)

Posted Thursday 22-Dec-2011 14:20, 97 comments.

Castlevania

Two well-known pieces from the Castlevania series: Vampire Killer by Kinuyo Yamashita and Bloody Tears by Kenichi Matsubara. Read more.

• lft_chipophone_castlevania (DivX, 173 MB)

• Linus Akesson - Chipophone - Castlevania (MP3, 2.3 MB)

Posted Saturday 17-Sep-2011 19:11, 1 comment.

Live at LCP 2011

I was given the opportunity to perform live with my chipophone at Little Computer People in Lund. Here is a recording of the concert, courtesy of SceneSat, along with video provided by members of the audience. Read more.

Posted Sunday 21-Aug-2011 12:20, 2 comments.

Pipe Logic

Delightfully useless epiphany: Suppose the null-byte is an electron. Then, /dev/zero provides an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them. Let's call these devices Vss and Vdd, respectively. Read more.

Posted Tuesday 2-Aug-2011 09:48, 17 comments.

Presentation tool

Here's a brief technical writeup of the slide show presentation tool I built for my Elements of Chip Music seminar. Read more.

Posted Friday 1-Jul-2011 08:31, 3 comments.

Bit banger

Bit banger is my most constrained and minimalistic microcontroller-based demo yet. It won the Oldschool 4k compo at Revision 2011. Read more.

• bitbanger-src (Source code, 7 kB)

• Linus Akesson - Bit Banger (MP3, 2.2 MB)

Posted Monday 13-Jun-2011 10:23, 9 comments.

Java challenge

What does the following code do — and how? Read more.

Posted Tuesday 7-Jun-2011 17:27, 3 comments.