By now, the chiptune scene has crossbred with so many other genres that the only characteristic bands share is that their music has old video-game bloops and beeps in it. Otherwise, anything goes. As a solo artist, Matthew Joseph Payne, formerly of Glowing Stars, has been on the forefront of making the genre weird. He started out by plucking his distorted banjo to chip sounds at shows and has expanded to include horn players, violinists, cellist and flutists-making his music a sort of chamber-pop, Americana, noise-chip amalgam. The fact that he and his band wear all-white jumpsuits with scrambled video-game images projected on them makes their act that much more surreal.
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By now, the chiptune scene has crossbred with so many other genres that the only characteristic bands share is that their music has old video-game bloops and beeps in it. Otherwise, anything goes. As a solo artist, Matthew Joseph Payne, formerly of Glowing Stars, has been on the forefront of making the genre weird. He started out by plucking his distorted banjo to chip sounds at shows and has expanded to include horn players, violinists, cellist and flutists-making his music a sort of chamber-pop, Americana, noise-chip amalgam. The fact that he and his band wear all-white jumpsuits with scrambled video-game images projected on them makes their act that much more surreal.
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