How Microchips Make Music

Microchips are inside the games and each chip has a set of instructions that tells the game how to react. Ocean told me that this kind of symmetry, this up and down motion is kind of ideal for these sounds that are coming out of the eight bit chips. The binary nature of computers, zeros and ones, or off and on, are really well suited to make music because if you think of a speaker, like the cone in the speaker, it just goes in and out. If a computer says zero, make the cone go in and if the computer says one, make thecone go out. And so that sound might be a violin or it might be a piano or it