Chicago chiptune wizard Diode Milliampere wrings music out of obsolete hardware one command line at a time.
by Miles Raymer
Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Lenovo laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers and letters. The churn of seemingly incomprehensible codes, rendered in the blocky MS-DOS system font, looks like the kind of raw data you might see flashing across a monitor on a factory floor or in a water-treatment plant, but it's actually a musical performance of a sort.…[ Read more ]