8-bit Music Creation with InversePhase
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Remember how video games sounded on Atari, Nintendo, and Commodore 64 computers? Synthesized music like that is known as chiptunes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune) and is still alive today. Professional chiptune musician, Brendan Becker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_Phase) aka InversePhase (http://www.inversephase.com/), will be joining us to show how anyone can create music on their PCs for their programs and games. We'll be using a free program called MilkyTracker (http://milkytracker.org/?download). Please install it beforehand so that we have more time to make music!
As always, CoderDojoDC is completely free and open to everyone. If you have a laptop, please bring it and headphones for your child to use. If you do not have a laptop, we have a couple spare laptops and can help your child acquire one for free. (See us for details at the meeting)
After the meeting, everyone is welcome to join us a Giuseppi's Pizza (http://www.giuseppispizza.net/) for dinner.
Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Getting there:
The Thingstitute (http://mcinnovationlab.com/tag/thingstitute/) is located in downtown Rockville in the old red brick courthouse at 29 Courthouse Square. It's at the corner of Maryland and Courthouse Square with a large fountain out front.
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Enter via the front door. Walk down the hall and make a left at the elevator. We'll be on the second floor. An entrance without stairs is located in the rear of the building. Handicap parking is located next to the rear entrance. We'll have a sign with a number to call to get someone to open the rear door.
Parking: Street parking is free on Sundays, but may not be available. The parking lot at 11 N Washington St is free and less than a block away. It is on the corner of Courthouse Sq and Washington St with an entrance right after the traffic light on Courthouse Sq. A second option is the COB parking garage on E. Jefferson and Monroe which is larger and also free. See rockvilleparking.com (http://rockvilleparking.com/) for other parking lots.
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Metro: If you are coming by metro, exit the station to the left and take the pedestrian bridge over Rockville Pike. Walk straight for a little over a block and you'll be there.