The revival of chip music is by no means limited to the United States, Matthew Carl Applegate is a chiptune artist in the UK who works under the name Pixelh8.
When toymaker Hasbro sought partners a year ago for its new Hit Clips toy, which plays 60-second music samples from a chip, major labels hesitated and fretted over piracy issues.
Later in the week I spent a fascinating hour in the company of Matthew Applegate, better known as Pixelh8, as he explored the realm of chip tunes - music made from old computers - in a talk at Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge, part of their celebration of the work of John Cage.
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
An electronic circuit synthesises the music that Perich has coded and programmed onto the chip.
Sony also hopes to use the Cell chip in high-definition televisions, music players and a range of household electronics.
Music and ceili dance sessions, horse trading, burger and chip-eating and fireworks ensue and the festival comes to a close when a local 12-year old schoolgirl gets crowned Queen Puck, a title to treasure till August comes 'round again.
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), music players like Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) or chip companies Texas Instruments (nyse: TXN - news - people ) and Freescale Semiconductor (nyse: FSL - news - people ), HP is also looking to build the business internally.
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