do people ever mix traditional instruments with chiptunes or is that like watching a serious guy get dunked on by a muppet
@aeva What do you mean by “traditional”? There’s plenty of bands with guitars and chiptunes.
@bytex64 i don't have a precise definition, nor do i want to litigate one. keeping that in mind, i think acoustic guitars would absolutely fit most reasonable definitions of "traditional instrument", but the guitar is a funny case because it's had pretty much unbroken popularity over the past century or so, so it doesn't really sound out of place anywhere
@bytex64 whereas i think if you were to play the banjo or the hurdy gurdy with a square wave accompaniment people might reasonably assume you were being ironic

@aeva @bytex64 this feels like a thing that is impossible to figure out without trying. Like maybe it rules? or maybe it doesn't? I actually feel like specifically a hurdy gurdy could work

like it fits real well into dark sounding techno beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msesBTcuNM so why not?

Hurdy-gurdy techno - Welcome from my studio vol.01

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@aeva @bytex64 anyways humans in general I think crave novelty in art (me. I crave novelty) so i think you should do this and report back
@halcy @bytex64 i don't have a hurdy gurdy or a banjo
@aeva @bytex64 i saw a video while looking for the linked one titled „3d printed hurdy gurdy“. Disappointingly it was just a music box case. But.
@halcy @bytex64 i just remembered i do have a hurdy gurdy, it's a laser cut thing my wife built from a kit. it sounds like ass though so i don't think of it being a real one. i've also got a toy from teenage engineering that has medieval instrument samples loaded up on it