DUBCRT Commodore 64 Cartridge (PAL only)
DUBCRT is a music album, interactive light synthesizer and remix gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. With music and visuals from some of the most prolific experimentalists of the 8-bit scenes, DUBCRT taps into 1960s modernist forms, 1970s dub, 2000s glitch aesthetics, and 2020s sustainable computing. DUBCRT features:
? Eight songs ranging from ambient to IDM and drum n? bass
? Visualisers that react to the music, and that are user-controllable
? A secret remix module that allows you to re-interpret all the music on the cartridge
All of this uses only 64 kilobytes ? equivalent to 1.5 seconds of MP3-audio. This is possible thanks to clever use of resources, and by making all the graphics in PETSCII, the colourful and quirky ASCII-variant of the Commodore 64.
Everyone involved has a background in the so called demoscene, an underground creative computer subculture around since the 1980?s.
Goto80 (audio, Sweden) was one of three nominees for best C64-composer at Commodore?s 25 year anniversary, and regularly performs live around the world. He also does academic research on text mode graphics and retro computer cultures. www.goto80.com
4-mat (programming/design, UK) makes tiny audiovisual art for various 8-bit computer systems, and works with game audio. He was also one of the first in the world to make chipmusic on the Amiga in 1990. 4mat.bandcamp.com
iLKke (graphics/design, Australia) is a notorious pixel artist and composer, who started in the Amiga demoscene in Serbia. ilkke.net
Ray Manta (concept/design, Australia) is the alias of veteran electronica producer Tim Koch, who initiated and organized the project.
Box for display purpose only
