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Four

by zi

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1.
Unpack 03:16
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2.
Fiefdom 02:34
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3.
A Million Tiny Crisis 03:06
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4.
Grapple 02:56
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5.
Anxiety 02:13
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6.
Wonder 03:13
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7.
Heat Stroke 02:30
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8.
Floating 02:50
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9.
Surface Streets 01:59
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10.
Afternoon 02:10
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about

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) musical chipset is limiting in so many ways, it is both a blessing and a curse. The medium makes it very difficult to develop a sound that’s unique and engaging with limited duty cycles and volume envelopes, but it’s very rewarding to creatively solve this puzzle and compose music that’s engaged gamers for over thirty years.

Keeping the inherent restrictions in mind, this sixth album by Zi uses only four instruments. Each instrument uses one of the 2a03 chip sound processor duty cycles (12.5%, 25%, 50% and 75%) at full volume across the four available tracks (Pulse 1 & 2, Triangle, and Noise – no DPCM or sample track used). Using Famitracker’s volume column and effect commands, Four extracts a melodic sonorousness from the rigid protocol imposed on the NES chipset.

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released September 1, 2016

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zi Buffalo, New York

Chiptune artist Zi has created original soundtracks for NES homebrew games for over ten years and in between projects composes chiptune music which is released on NES cartridges.

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