
DEMOCRATIZING
THE DEMOSCENE
something needed to be done about it. I hadn’t
made anything nearly as complex before, but the
seeds were planted long before that moment.
Better Than a Blaster
A computer’s ability to make music and sound
has always been the most interesting thing to
me. When I was a kid in the early 90s, I convinced
my parents to get a Sound Blaster card, and
learned it could do more than add sound effects
and music to games. It came with a demo of a
program called Tetra Compositor that played
music that was far more advanced-sounding than
anything I’d heard before: a full-length song with
“real” sounds, yet the file was only 40 kil ...