Radiomorrow, station 6 of 6
Chip Classics
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven on four channels
Chip Classics plays ten public-domain themes on four chip voices: Ode to Joy, Für Elise and the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven, A Little Night Music, the Turkish March and Symphony No. 40 by Mozart, the Prelude in C by Bach, the Canon in D by Pachelbel, the Minuet in G by Petzold and In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg.
The notes of each theme are fixed, but the arrangement is written fresh every time. A tune states the theme, varies it with running passages, turns it from major to minor or back, hands it to the bass and ends with a finale a half step or a whole step higher.
The order of the pieces is shuffled by the seed, and each piece keeps a tempo that suits it.
The button opens the radio on this station with a fresh seed. Tempo, scale, energy and the number of notes can be changed while it plays.
The other stations
- Brick Hopper: bouncy side-scroller runs
- Castle Keep: gothic action in a minor key
- Star Lanes: home-computer space shooter
- Pocket Town: slow handheld lullabies
- Sixteen FM: 16-bit brass, electric piano and slap bass