For over 20 years, the OverClocked Remix community and website has been offering today’s and yesterday’s gamers to revisit the music of their favorite video games, be it a cover, a remix, or a rearrangement – for free. How many times The Legend of Zelda was put into jazz? Sonic The Hedgehog into dubstep? Mega Man into funk? Undertale into prog rock?
A data investigation into Birmingham’s and the West Midlands’ heavy metal scene.
The GitHub repo for the web scrapers: https://github.com/datacarvel/Brum-Rock
My feature story on VGM (video games music, but remixed, reorchestrated, rearranged, etc.) was shortlisted for the Shorthand Awards, the handy publishing platform I have used for the story!
OMG !! My story on #VGM was shortlisted for the @Shorthand Awards !! 😱 🎉
Give it a read ! 👉 https://t.co/A0r76eK4Pi
The shortlist 👉 https://t.co/Bzwc2Th4zc
Thanks to @DJMykah @djpretzel @GameChops @StringPlayerGmr @VikingGuitar and many others ! #gamemusic #gameaudio pic.twitter.com/EFpYqSFrdb
— Steve Carufel 🌀🤺 (@stevecarufel_) 22 février 2019
I loved doing that story. The VGM scene is a great community full of very cool people! I had great conversations with them, and they were all more than happy to talk to me.
You can read the story right here 👉 https://scarufel.com/wp-content/Longhand3/Your%20childhood,%20remixed_%c2%a0an%20immersive%20guide%20for%20the%20newcomers.html
The Shortland Awards shortlist 👉 https://shorthand.com/the-craft/shorthand-awards-the-shortlist/index.html
Thanks to all the remixers!
Here is my latest story from my short series of long-form features on music evolution!
This time, we’re talking about music genres and how they interact with each other to form new genres. We also address the increasing role of robots 🤖 in all aspects of music, and how statistics and machine learning can reveal new insights into centuries-old music genres.
Just click here* : 🎵 https://scarufel.com/wp-content/Longhand2/Musicorum%20Galaxy%20%E2%80%94%20Shorthand%20Social.html 📊
