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8-bit operator

I've been told, all that glitters is not gold.

About Me

I'm Will. I am twenty-three. I make music with Game Boys, my Roland SH-101 and Reaktor 5. I don't think I could ever make a living doing it, but that doesn't mean I don't take it seriously. I am a nerd, musician, music aficionado, DHR fanatic and super geek! I love my collection of Game Boys. My music is heavily influenced by IDM, acid house/techno, electropop and a number of amazing artists from New York, Berlin and Japan. The sound of a TB-303 is the best sound in the world. I love anime/manga. I love New York City and all the awesome people who inhabit it. I've recently started working with visuals and other forms of graphic art. I've always found it to be something aesthetically pleasing that I never got to try, so I'm taking a stab at it. Micro-blogging is fun.
You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself.
A copy is just an identical image. There is the possibility that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems and copies do not give rise to variety and originality. Life perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information, only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.
All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

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My Interests

4chan, additive synthesis, artificial intelligence, breakbeats, cyberpunk sci-fi, danbooru, digital waveguide synthesis, distortion, drum machines, formant synthesis, game boy, gbdk, granular synthesis, leetspeak, lolcat, micro-blogging, monophonic synthesizers, music, native instruments, netspeak, novation, photoshop cs, pocket monsters, quartz composer, reaktor 5, robots, sample destruction, subtractive synthesis, synthesizers, vector synthesis, vocoders, wavetable synthesis, twitter, white noise, wires, wonder witch - wonderswan personal software development kit, xkcd.

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet someone who has a high compatibility rating with me on last.fm. Make it happen people!

Music:

16-17, 6955, 8 bit weapon, .tape., :wumpscut:, adam & the ants, add n to (x), adult., afx, agf/dlay, aktivist, alec empire, alio die, amon tobin, angels and agony, aphex twin, apoptygma berzerk, appendix, architect, ascii.disko, astrobrite, atari teenage riot, atomine elektrine, attrition, aube, audra, aurora noise, autechre, autumn's grey solace, ayria, b. fleischmann, bauhaus, beck, bella morte, bit shifter, björk, biochip c., blackjewishgays, black rebel motorcycle club, black sun empire, black tape for a blue girl, blasterhead, bloodclaat gangsta youth, boards of canada, bola, bomb 20, boom bip, boy robot, brian eno, broken spindles, bsk, bubblyfish, camouflage fuckstars, candie hank, carl crack, casino versus japan, cathrine wheel, cevin key, cex, chicks on speed, christian death, christian kleine, christoph de babalon, christopher jion, chris vrenna, cleaner, clear vision, cobra killer, cocteau twins, com.a, computeher, concord dawn, covenant, dat politics, daft punk, dead can dance, deadsy, dead voices on air, death cab for cutie, death in vegas, depeche mode, de/vision, din-st, disassembler, dj 6666, dj kamikaze, dj moonraker, dj mowgly, dj scud, dots + dashes, download, dunkelheit, dälek, eats tapes, echo image, e.c.p., electric company, ellen allien, experimental audio research, fairlight children, faith and disease, faith and the muse, faust vs. dalek, fear falls burning, fff, fidel villeneuve, fischerspooner, fluke, freezepop, freiband, front 242, funker vogt, funkstörung, g flow, galaxie 500, game boy girl, garbage, gary numan, gescom, girls are short, glomag, godspeed you black emperor!, gogo goddess, guitar vader, h_m_b, hanayo, hanayo in panacea, hanin elias, hardfloor, haujobb, heartworm, herrmann and kleine, hexer, hey kid nice robot, human drama, i am robot and proud, ian pooley, imperative reaction, interpol, iris, i.s.a.n., iszoloscope, jaguar, jew funk, k.k. null, karl marx stadt, kid 606, kid koala, kill memory crash, killout trash (a.k.a. kill:out trash), kill switch...klick, kim cascone kim hiorthoy, knifehandchop, komeit, ladytron, lexaunculpt, lfo, lolita storm, love spirals downwards, lovesliescrushing, low entropy, lowfish, lowsunday, lullatone, lush, lycia, lx empire, mad capsule markets, majesty crush, marilyn manson, mark bell, maschinenvolk, maru, matmos, matthew dear, mazzy star, meat beat manifesto, merzbow, microchipkinder, microstoria, mira, miss kittin & the hacker, modeselektor, mogwai, monofonix, monolake, multipara, my bloody valentine, múm, myer, namke communications, nero, neuroticfish, newt, nic endo, nicolette, nine inch nails, nintendo teenage robots, no movement no sound no memories, nordloef, nullsleep, ochre, ohgr, orgy, oval, pale saints, panacea, paul pm, patric catani, phasmid, phonem, pirates on the moon, plaid, pole, polygon window, polysics, powerman 5000, printed circuit, queen of japan, r:a, rage against the machine, richard benson, richard d. james, ride, ritilan, robokid, robotnics crossing, ruxpin, s'apex, scape one, scope, seefeel, set fire to flames, shinjuku filth. shizuo, si-{cut}.db, sigur ros, silicone soul, silver mt. zion, siouxsie and the banshees, skanfrom, skinny puppy, slam, sleeparchive, slowdive, snd, solvent, somegirl, something j, sonic subjunkies, soulwhirlingsomewhere, squarepusher, starmelt, stars as eyes, sulumi, swayzak, swervedriver, switchblade symphony, techno animal, the arms of someone new, the creatures, the cure, the jesus and mary chain, the legendary pink dots, the birthday party, the pillows, the postal service, the prodigy, the retrosic, the sisters of mercy, the smashing pumpkins, thaddi herrmann, this ascension, thomas köner, tim hecker, tim skold, type o negative, tweaker, twerk, unto ashes, usk, velvet acid christ, venetian snares, vidna obmana, visit venus, vitalic, vladislav delay, vnv nation, vodinkja, wagon christ, wire, xela, zan lyons, zorn.

Movies:

akira, the animatrix: beyond, blade runner, blip festival: reformat the planet, the breakfast club, colors, the end of evangelion, evangelion: death and rebirth, garden state, ghost in the shell, ghost in the shell 2: innocence, ghost world, ghosts of the civil dead, lost in translation, metropolis, paprika, party monster, pi, princess mononoke, requiem for a dream, robot carnival, run lola run, thx 1138, vanilla sky, voices of a distant star, warp vision: the videos -1989-2004.

Television:

aqua teen hunger force, futurama, shin-chan. Yes, shin-chan is back on [adult swim]! If you haven't seen it, you should check it out!

anime: 3x3 eyes, akira, amazing nurse nanako, armitage, blood+, bokusatsu tenshi dokuro-chan, bubblegum crisis/tokyo 2040, chobits, elfen lied, eternal family, flcl, galaxy express 999, girls bravo, ghost in the shell, haibane renmei, his and her circumstances, key: the metal idol, lucky star, magic knight rayearth, memories, metropolis, my dear marie, nausicaa, neon genesis evangelion, nine love stories, noiseman sound insect, paprika, robot carnival, serial experiments lain, texhnolyze, voices of a distant star.

Books:

manuals and textbooks.

Heroes:

You know who you are.

My Blog

Chiptunes: My Introduction to the Scene (1998-2004)

In 1998 I received a Nintendo Game Boy Camera for my 13th birthday. Most people who owned one probably used them to take grainy lo-fi pictures with the camera. But I had another use for it. After...
Posted by 8-bit operator on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:04:00 PST

Some friends I met along the way.

A few of my friends who make music. Starmelt - chiptunes, micromusic Nordloef - chiptunes Vector Lovers - electro, idm Zan Lyons - experimental, electronic, classical Christopher Jion - downtempo, du...
Posted by 8-bit operator on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:37:00 PST

Chiptune/IDM/etc... compilation! Read!

I'm putting together a compilation.A bit about it...It's called My Plastic HeartThe theme is, "a soundtrack for an unwritten sci-fi/romance film".I got the idea one night while watching Robot Carnival...
Posted by 8-bit operator on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:44:00 PST

Hell yes! I got Supermodern Lovesongs

I got Supermodern Lovesongs in the mail yesterday! ^_^With it I got a Dirgefunk Records shirt and the Weep microcassette.I got a personal message from Chris asking me to add Supermodern Lovesongs and ...
Posted by 8-bit operator on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:17:00 PST