Kind of Bloop
| Kind of Bloop | |
|---|---|
 The album's cover art, derived from the cover of Kind of Blue | |
| Studio album | |
| Released | August 20, 2009 |
| Genre | Chiptune |
| Producer | Andy Baio |
| kindofbloop | |
Kind of Bloop is an album produced by Andy Baio, intended as a chiptune cover of Miles Davis's album Kind of Blue.
Composition, release and reception
[edit]Kickstarter is a website that allows people to pool together money to fund others' projects. A few months after its launch in 2009, Baio, a Miles Davis fan and the site's then chief technical officer, came up with the idea of recreating Kind of Blue in chiptune, a type of music found in early video games, as an example project to test the site's functionality. After getting copyright permission for each of Kind of Blue's five songs, Baio assigned each to a musician to work on for three months, allowing each complete creative control with the sole condition of keeping "Davis' original feeling and intensity". The track "All Blues" fell to New York jazz pianist Sam Ascher-Weiss, who created his version by relying on a recording of himself playing the original. According to him, the task was tiresome, requiring " a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do ".[1]
The album was publicly released on August 20, three days after the 50th anniversary of Kind of Blue's release. According to Baio, before its release, it was received negatively by users in some online jazz forums who "fe[lt] like it [was] blasphemy". Claire Suddah of Time described the album as not "sound[ing] like jazz" but not "sound[ing] completely unlike it either. It's like Miles Davis lost in Legend of Zelda".[1]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "So What" | beek (Chris del Camino) | 9:24 |
| 2. | "Freddie Freeloader" | virt (Jake Kaufman) | 9:40 |
| 3. | "Blue in Green" | sergeeo (Sergio de Prado) | 4:14 |
| 4. | "All Blues" | Shnabubula (Samuel Ascher-Weiss) | 10:43 |
| 5. | "Flamenco Sketches" | Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland) | 7:06 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Suddath, Claire (August 20, 2009). "Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video-Game Music". Time. New York City. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Vartanian, Hrag (June 30, 2011). "Breaking: Millionaire Extorts $$$ From Artist, Street Artists Strike Back". Hyperallergic. Brooklyn. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
- Vinogradoff, Luc (June 14, 2010). "Du Miles Davis en 8bit, les Kinks reformés?" [8-bit Miles Davis, the Reformed Kinks?]. Le Monde (in French). Paris. ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
- Foulquier, Baptiste (October 11, 2009). "Miles Davis: un carnage!" [Miles Davis: A Carnage!]. Causeur (in French). Paris. ISSN 2270-4140. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
- Bergman, Silje (2019). "Utfordringer ved bruk og deling av visuelle uttrykk i en digital tidsalder" [New Challenges Related to How We Use and Share Visual Expressions in a Digital Age]. FormAkademisk. 12 (1). Oslo. doi:10.7577/formakademisk.2641. hdl:11250/2647875. ISSN 1890-9515.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Baio, Andy (June 23, 2011). "Kind of Screwed". waxy.org. Retrieved May 21, 2025.