53280 (Commodore 64) @BedfordLevelExperiment

Bedford Level Experiment A love song to the 16 colours of the Commodore 64.

This video was originally made as a bonus shown at the end of the 8-Bit Show and Tell episode "More 6510 Programming With Turbo Macro Pro": youtu.be/05vlobA3JeU

Check out more of our songs here: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Lyrics:
On the C-64, location 53280 controls
The colour of the border
While 53281 controls
The colour of the screen

POKE a zero in, and the screen turns black
POKE a one in, and it turns white
So easy and quick to make that change

If you rapidly change the colour
The screen will flash but not in a uniform way
It depends on the raster scan
The screen is redrawn sixty times a second
From top to bottom, from left to right
So the colour change will appear
across the screen as a horizontal slice

The colours cycle round:
Black, white, red, cyan
Round and round:
Purple, blue, yellow, green
Flashing, scrolling down:
Orange, pink, dark grey, brown
An ever-turning view:
medium grey, light grey, light green & blue

updated 5 years ago

53280 (Commodore 64)

Bedford Level Experiment 2019-02-23 | A love song to the 16 colours of the Commodore 64.

This video was originally made as a bonus shown at the end of the 8-Bit Show and Tell episode "More 6510 Programming With Turbo Macro Pro": youtu.be/05vlobA3JeU

Check out more of our songs here: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Lyrics:
On the C-64, location 53280 controls
The colour of the border
While 53281 controls
The colour of the screen

POKE a zero in, and the screen turns black
POKE a one in, and it turns white
So easy and quick to make that change

If you rapidly change the colour
The screen will flash but not in a uniform way
It depends on the raster scan
The screen is redrawn sixty times a second
From top to bottom, from left to right
So the colour change will appear
across the screen as a horizontal slice

The colours cycle round:
Black, white, red, cyan
Round and round:
Purple, blue, yellow, green
Flashing, scrolling down:
Orange, pink, dark grey, brown
An ever-turning view:
medium grey, light grey, light green & blue

64738 - Lyric Video

Bedford Level Experiment 2018-08-31 | What if Leonard Cohen and Neil Young teamed up to write a song about regrets and second chances, using the Commodore 64 as their muse? A glitchy lyric video for Bedford Level Experiment's song 64738.

Park Patrol - original C64-inspired song

Bedford Level Experiment 2018-05-15 | A 30 second tribute to a great C64 game. Not a cover of the Park Patrol music. Check out more of our music here on our channel, and at http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/

Gameplay footage captured from my real NTSC C64.

Not So Well - PETSCII Music Video

Bedford Level Experiment 2018-05-04 | Happy 70th birthday to my dad this weekend. We almost lost him late last year, and I wrote this song as a result. It's a lot different than most of my songs, but still has a C64 reference, and the video has some PETSCII cats and lyrics typed on a real Commodore PET 4032, along with some 10 PRINT.

Check out more of our songs here: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Covox Voice Master Demo - C64 & Apple II

Bedford Level Experiment 2018-01-02 | Audio-only demonstration of the Covox Voice Master for Commodore 64 and Apple IIe, from September 26, 1985. Converted from tape on January 2, 2018. Denoised with iZotope RX 6.

Commodore PET 4032 Smooth Scrolling

Bedford Level Experiment 2018-01-01 | More info and videos: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Commodore PET 4032 smooth scrolling demo - Happy New Year 2018.

A Procedurally Generated Christmas Song - Commodore 64

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-12-26 | Lyrics created by feeding many Christmas songs into a perl reimplementation of NIALL from the Amiga, then fed into a C reimplementation of S.A.M. for the vocals. Video coded in BASIC for the text and 6502 assembly for the snowflakes, and filmed at 60 fps on my iPhone 6S from a real C64 + 1702 monitor.

bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Bit Pair - TRON song by Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-07-05 | Released for Tron Week, leading up to the 35th anniversary of Tron on July 9th, 2017. 5 nerd bands releasing one song per day - and this is song #3!

Super thanks to Darren Foulds for making this awesome video - check out an alternate version here: youtu.be/AjIEOswEK_E

Watch more computer nerd song videos and get a free song on our website: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/

Lyrics:
Hey, stop right there! YES
What's that supposed to mean? YES
Can't you say anything else? YES
Well, what else? NO

Ah, positive or negative
Zero or one
True or false
On or off

You're a Bit!

Where's your program? NO
Am I your program? YES
Oh, great… another mouth to feed

You're a Bit
And I'm your Program

Bit, help me out here
Should we go left or right? YES
Oh, should we go left? NO
Then we'll go right YES

You're a Bit
And I'm your Program
We're complementary

Hey Bit, I'm thinking you're not really a binary digit YES
More of a trinary bit - a trit? YES
Could you act like a proper bit?
YYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Stop that!
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Okay, okay, just be a trinary bit.
I guess we now know why you were made that way. YES

You're a Bit
And I'm your Program
We make a great Pair

87 Cards - E.T. Trading Cards - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-04-26 | Visit our band website: bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Lyrics:
In 1982 I thought Tron was the best movie
Though I had never seen it, I wanted to go
But instead my parents took me to see E.T.
Which I really didn’t care about before

But once I saw it, I was captivated
I’d get on my BMX and pedal around
Imagining I was on the run from the FBI
Racing my alien buddy home

I collected the trading cards pack by pack
Buying them at the corner store down the block
Sometimes trading with kids at school
Eventually I had all eighty-seven cards, a complete set

Comic Bakery - Pump Organ Cover

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-04-20 | Covering Martin Galway's Commodore 64 classic on an old pump organ. Only one of the two pedals was working, so it was extra tough to keep enough air going, but Rianna managed it.

Check out our original songs about Commodore 64, video games, sci-fi and more: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/

Car Battler Joe - original song & GBA footage

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-03-28 | This niche game is one of my all-time favourites. I got all the footage by playing my Car Battler Joe GBA cart on my GameCube with the Game Boy Player.

If you like our style of geek rock, get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/

Lyrics:
Spiky red hair, you never speak
We first find you watching TV
Watching replays of your father’s
Victories in the World Grand Prix

Dad's been missing for many years
Though rumours abound in your town
That he's been leading a gang
Of car-battling bandits around

It's your 16th birthday and
Your mother Wanna has a surprise
In the garage your own battle car
It's time to get streetwise

Go go go
Car Battler Joe

You start the car up, the engines roar
You're a novice, but don't feel inadequate
A robot named Pal helps pilot and
Is a voice for our mute protagonist

Your first training battle, no weapons
A demolition derby against your friends
You emerge victorious; against your
Driving prowess, they can't defend

Go go go
Car Battler Joe

Now you're stocked up with your weapons
Fully loaded and mounted to your car
Out into the wasteland you venture
Seeking your father and your own rising star

Go go go
Car Battler Joe,
Car Battler Joe,
Car Battler Joe

Living Here In The Future: 2001 by Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-02-23 | If you like our style of geek rock, get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/

Lyrics:
She’s walking very slowly
Being careful she doesn’t slip
She must be new around here
On this shiny ship

The stewardess struggles to walk
With her velcro-bottomed shoes
Bringing dinner to me
While we fly to the moon

We’re living here in the future,
two-thousand-one

I’m the only passenger
While the men pilot the craft
The woman catches my wayward pen
As I take a space nap

Not in much of a hurry
We’ve got all day and night
Heading to the moon base
A two-hundred-forty-thousand mile space flight

I heard there’s something on the moon
That’s been buried for a long time
We dug it up, a black monolith
With dimensions one, four, nine...

Intellivision Cartridge Stacking - How Many?

Bedford Level Experiment 2017-01-12 | Inspired by Aaron C's tweet: twitter.com/blahjedi/status/819162058339930112

Music is from our only song that mentions Intellivision, "Buying A Computer", track 8 of our album "Place Without A Computer": bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/place-without-a-computer

Check out our website for more computer nerd music videos: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/

Place Without A Computer - Bedford Level Experiment

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Photo Credits:
Ed Mlynarski (billiards)
Gary Spence (K-mart)
Lea Franchi Madge (Franchi's Confectionary)

Video clips from:
"Expanding Horizons" (1972) directed by Glen Ludlow
"Thunder Bay Promotion" (1989) by Commercial Video Productions

Lyrics:
I'm seeing those games everywhere
At the laundromat
At the grocery store
At Grandma's Restaurant
But none at home
This place without a computer

At the corner store
At the roller skating rink
At the pool hall
At the mall
Why can't it be for me?

I saw their phosphorus glow
I saw the new worlds
Places I've never been
But always wanted to be

At the hotel
At the airport
At the K-Mart
At the Chinese take-out
At the bowling alley

A Commodore 64 Christmas 2 - Jolly Old St. Nicholas (1541 Upgrade version)

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-12-23 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
What did you want for Christmas in 1984? I wanted a 1541 disk drive!
Download the song here, along with the rest of our EP, "A Very Commodore 64 Christmas": bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/a-very-commodore-64-christmas

See the original "Commodore 64 Christmas" here: youtu.be/J-Vjf8no2nU

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Thanks to Richard, Ben, and Jansje for help on and off-camera.

Lyrics:
Jolly old St. Nicholas, Lean your ear this way!
Don’t you tell a single soul, What I’m going to say;
Christmas Eve is coming soon; Now, you dear old man,
Whisper what you’ll bring to me: Tell me if you can.

When the clock is striking twelve, When I'm fast asleep,
Down the chimney broad and black, With your pack you'll creep;
I do love the computer that I got last year, but
Now would like some upgrades please, won't you, Santa dear?

I would like my own disk drive, cassette's too slow to load
And a big pack of blank disks, On which to save my code
Also get me a disk notcher, to use the back side
Yes I know I could use scissors
But this is quicker... and looks much more nice

Original lyrics (first half of song) by Emily Huntington Miller (1833-1913), traditional music

New lyrics (2nd half of song), arrangement, video by Bedford Level Experiment, 2016

Supermoon zoom - Nov. 14, 2016 - Thunder Bay, Canada

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-11-15 | Footage from the November 14th, 2016 supermoon, taken around 3:00 am Eastern Time, Thunder Bay, Canada. Music by Bedford Level Experiment: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com - instrumental version of "An Obsequious Tear".

Place Without A Computer (live) - Album Release ThunderCon 2016 - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-11-07 | Please subscribe to our channel and sign up for our mailing list here: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com - free song included!
Hear the full studio version of the album: bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com - also available on iTunes, Spotify, etc.

Now with closed captioning, many thanks to Sam of P1XL Games ( http://P1XL.com ) for making a software tool to make the process WAY easier!

Setlist:
Bored In My Room
Place Without A Computer
Sault Ste. Marie
Rogue
I Want A Turn
Vacuum Fluorescent Display
School Evacuation
Buying A Computer
Programmed For Hours
Unsaved
Saved
History (Commodore 64)

Bored In My Room - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-10-03 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Growing up in the '80s wasn't easy when you were a geek without a computer, or a gamer without a video game console.

From the album Place Without A Computer: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com

Thanks to Ben, Jansje, Kyla, Peter, Heidi, Stella for help with the video, and to the Petricks for lending us the shirt, and to Carla for not making me get rid of the props.

I eventually did get a computer, and grew up to make video games with http://P1XL.com

Geekfest 2016 - Bedford Level Experiment live - full show

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-07-17 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Bedford Level Experiment's set at Geekfest 2016, on July 1st, in Thunder Bay, Canada. Thanks to Andrew from Thunder Geeks for providing this footage to us!

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Set list:
0:01 - History (Commodore 64)
2:58 - I Want A Turn
6:01 - 64 (Cheezlekane cover)
9:05 - Car Battler Joe
11:15 - Cookie Clicker
14:43 - Love To Prove
18:06 - P.A.T.S.E.G.
21:34 - Cosmic Ark
23:43 - Being Happy Doesn't Make You Stupid (M.J. Hibbett cover)
27:03 - 6502

6502 - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

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Song 10 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. We collaborated with Alex Klages during February Album Writing Month 2016 on this song; we wrote the lyrics, he wrote the music!

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Lyrics:
The 6502 is the CPU for me
Produced by MOS Technology
Chuck Peddle made it with his team
Those 8-bit registers are a dream
It first powered the Apple I
Few realized what had begun
A low-cost processor solution
Sparked the home computer revolution

Sixty-five oh two
A technological breakthrough
Sixty-five oh two
8-bit through and through

Soon came the Commodore PET
Model 2001 had a built-in cassette
And there was the Atari 2600
Originally known as the VCS
The VIC-20 and the BBC Micro
Great computers, although
They don't compare with what I adore
My favourite computer, the Commodore 64

Sixty-five oh two
8-bit through and through
Sixty-five oh two
A technological breakthrough

So many great machines used that chip
An inexpensive 40-pin DIP
From humble origins in monochrome
To a computer in nearly every home

Sixty-five oh two
A technological breakthrough
Sixty-five oh two
8-bit through and through

Being Happy Doesnt Make You Stupid - MJ Hibbett cover by Bedford Level Experiment - Geekfest 2016

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Song 9 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. Check out M.J. Hibbett and the Validator's new album, "Still Valid"!

Cosmic Ark - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

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Song 8 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. Cosmic Ark is our favourite Atari 2600 game!

Lyrics:
Oh, Noah, gonna build your Cosmic Ark
Oh, Noah, gonna fly your Cosmic Ark
You heard Alpha Ro is fading fast
That solar system will soon be past
Oh, Noah, gonna fly your Cosmic Ark

Oh, meteors, don’t smash up Noah’s ark
Oh, comets, don’t crash ol’ Noah’s ark
He’s flying all the way from Atlantis
Trying to get through to those planets
Oh, meteors, don’t smash up Noah’s ark

Oh, beasties, look up and see he’s coming
Oh, creatures, hold still and see he’s coming
Don’t be scared, you gonna get redeemed
Noah’s gonna save you with his tractor beam
Oh, beasties, won't you stop moving around!

P.A.T.S.E.G. - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

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Song 7 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. "Petite Androgynous Teenage Shakespeare Expert Girl"

Love To Prove - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-07-11 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Song 6 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. An acoustic version of our AI-generated Shakespeare Shoegaze song.

Cookie Clicker - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-07-08 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Song 5 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. This song is about the game Cookie Clicker - play it in your web browser here: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker

Car Battler Joe - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-07-07 | New studio version of "Car Battler Joe" with game footage video here: youtu.be/8ufCG1c0AsQ

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Song 4 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. Car Battler Joe is our favourite Gameboy Advance game!

64 by Cheezlekane - cover by Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

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Song 3 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016. Original song written and recorded by Cheezlekane, who have now disbanded, but some members are in a group called "The Glorious North", check them out!

I Want A Turn - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

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Song 2 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016.

Lyrics:
Hoping that I could play again
I went over to a friend's
Anticipation overwhelmed me

Hoping didn't help, he played first
Hardly ever gave me a turn
Restarted every time he lost

I want a turn,
You get to play all the time

But I watched him play Pitfall!
And Cosmic Ark, it was the best of all
Rescuing those strange little creatures

Later he told me he finished the game
Travelling far enough, the ending came
The Ark had returned to earth

History (Commodore 64) - Bedford Level Experiment - live at Geekfest 2016

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-07-04 | See the official video for this song: youtu.be/djQ1Qk-9xbo

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Song 1 of 10 from our set at Geekfest in Thunder Bay, Canada on July 1st, 2016.

Lyrics:
When I was 10, I became obsessed
With video games and the like
I dreamed of Donkey Kong, Pong and then
Space Invaders through the night

At school we had a Commodore PET
We wore out the "A" key
Acid Rain, Weather and that
Dungeon game filled the screen.

Then I bought a Timex Sinclair
I began to learn how to hack
But I couldn't get it to save or load
So I promptly went to bring it back

Then I went to Duluth and was about to buy
A VIC-20 when my mom or
My dad said the wisest ever thing
"Why don't you buy a C-64?"

Oh yeah!

So I got my 64 (x2)
I adore my 64 (x4)

Monty Plays - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2016-03-05 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Official music video for "Monty Plays" by Bedford Level Experiment. Thanks to Richard Pepper for all his help in the making of this video: http://richardpepper.ca

Also, CILU (Thunder Bay's only college radio station) is having their annual fund-raiser; they support BLE and many other geek bands by playing our music, let's give back to them: http://www.luradio.ca/fund

Worst Superpower Ever (Live, full band) - The Doubleclicks cover

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-11-23 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Performed by Bedford Level Experiment at ThunderCon in Thunder Bay, Canada, on October 25th, 2015. Original written by The Doubleclicks. Thanks to Tim for being the cameradude.

Hear the original here:
thedoubleclicks.bandcamp.com/track/worst-superpower-ever-3

TIE After TIE - Cover of Debs & Errols Star Wars-themed parody of Time After Time

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-10-31 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
Performed by Bedford Level Experiment at ThunderCon in Thunder Bay, Canada, on October 25th, 2015. A parody of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time", written by Debs & Errol.

Here's Debs & Errol's studio recording of it: debsanderrol.bandcamp.com/track/tie-after-tie

History (Commodore 64) - live / Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-09-10 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
We put together this set of unplugged acoustic songs for Geekfest in Thunder Bay, on August 15, 2015. The set went well, but the room full of people was too loud for the camera to pick us up well enough, so we decided to perform them again at home while we were still practiced up.

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

64 (live) - Cheezlekane cover

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-08-21 | Lyrics:
I loved my sprites
Even though I couldn't get 'em
Looking how they should have
And late at night
You could hear my mother yelling
"Get off that computer
go and read in bed or something"

Life ain't that great without ya
Hero and Rocketball
I feel a strange nostalgia
For my old 64

In ones and noughts
Yeah she painted me a picture of the distant future
I never thought
Of the digitized pubescent lonely adolescent
Faces bathed in soft blue light

Life ain't that great without ya
Hero and Rocketball
I feel a strange nostalgia
For my old 64

Omega Race the kids would hate you now

30 years later….

Life ain't that great without ya
Hero and Rocketball
I feel a strange nostalgia
For my old 64
For my old 64

We put together this set of unplugged acoustic songs for Geekfest in Thunder Bay, on August 15, 2015. The set went well, but the room full of people was too loud for the camera to pick us up well enough, so we decided to perform them again at home while we were still practiced up.

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

I Want A Turn (Live) - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-08-20 | We put together this set of unplugged acoustic songs for Geekfest in Thunder Bay, on August 15, 2015. The set went well, but the room full of people was too loud for the camera to pick us up well enough, so we decided to perform them again at home while we were still practiced up.

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Love Is A Scalar (live) - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-08-19 | We put together this set of unplugged acoustic songs for Geekfest in Thunder Bay, on August 15, 2015. The set went well, but the room full of people was too loud for the camera to pick us up well enough, so we decided to perform them again at home while we were still practiced up.

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

TIE After TIE (live) - a Debs & Errol parody cover

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-08-18 | We put together this set of unplugged acoustic songs for Geekfest in Thunder Bay, on August 15, 2015. The set went well, but the room full of people was too loud for the camera to pick us up well enough, so we decided to perform them again at home while we were still practiced up.

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Worst Superpower Ever (Live, acoustic) - The Doubleclicks cover

Bedford Level Experiment 2015-08-17 | We put together this set of unplugged acoustic songs for Geekfest in Thunder Bay, on August 15, 2015. The set went well, but the room full of people was too loud for the camera to pick us up well enough, so we decided to perform them again at home while we were still practiced up.

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

A Commodore 64 Christmas

Bedford Level Experiment 2014-11-30 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
What did you want for Christmas in 1982? I wanted a Commodore 64!
Download the song here: bedfordlevelexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/a-very-commodore-64-christmas
Video game sound effects from P1XL Party by P1XL Games: http://P1XL.com
See the sequel "Commodore 64 Christmas 2 - Jolly Old St. Nicholas" here: youtu.be/F4EeQ5P5l7k
Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

A partially true story. Thanks to Ben, Heidi, Jansje, Peter, Kyla, and Stella for help on and off-camera.

Lyrics:
It was December 1982
I hoped that my dream would come true
That there would be waiting for me
A Commodore computer under the tree

I want a Commodore 64 Christmas

Now LEGO's nice, LEGO's fine,
But it won't scratch this 8-bit itch of mine

Now it was December 1983
What would Santa bring for me?
Would I finally get my wish?
My very own computer, with a SID chip

I want a Commodore 64 Christmas

I wanted, and I got
A Commodore 64 Christmas

Lyrics, music, video by Bedford Level Experiment, 2014

Hey, Hey, Its Country Time - Fat Chance cover

Bedford Level Experiment 2014-04-04 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
My uncle, Phil Harbron was in a band called "Fat Chance" in Thunder Bay, Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1977 they went down to Nashville, USA to record two songs; this is one of them. R.I.P. Uncle Phil. - Robin

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Confounded To Corruption - Bedford Level Experiment

Bedford Level Experiment 2014-02-25 | Get a free song from us by signing up to our mailing list: http://BedfordLevelExperiment.com/
This song is based on Line 10 of Sonnet 64: "Or state itself confounded to decay".

We've been reading the book _10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10_ and became very inspired by the section on procedurally generated art. All the footage in this video was generated by Commodore 64 programs written by us, including a 6502 assembly version of 10 PRINT. The lyrics were also generated algorithmically; Sonnet 64 and some commentary on it from Wikipedia were fed into an old Amiga program called NIALL, and the output was edited together into something resembling lyrics. The corruption the sonnet underwent became the theme of the song and video.

Rianna: Vocals, keyboards, drums
Robin: Music, distorted talking, bass, guitars, engineering, mixing, Commodore 64 programming, video

Visit us at: http://bedfordlevelexperiment.com

Lyrics (thanks to Shakespeare, Wikipedia and NIALL for the help)

That which cannot weep to ruminate
But weep or fear of losing his love away
That in the kingdom of the hunger come what may

But it cannot weep to mortal rage
On the hungry ocean gain
Increasing store with loss, and fearing.

When I can't escape though I have
This thought is clear

Confounded to corruption

When sometime lofty towers I have seen
That in the love of the destruction
By adding abundance with store with store

The rich-proud cost of gradual leakage
Comes to ruminate but weep or fear of rhythm
Because of rhythm, because of losing his love away

On the love of the hunger come what may
But weep to mortal rage;
By adding abundance with loss, and fearing

Confounded to decay

If You Have A Beard

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History (Commodore 64) - by Bedford Level Experiment

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Song Credits:
Lyrics/music/guitars/bass/vocals: Robin
Drums/Commodore 64: Rianna

Thanks to Darren for the original drum parts from the '99 recording.

Video Credits:
'80s boys: Peter and Ben
Cameras: Heidi, Rianna, Robin
Editing: Robin

Wardrobe supplied by The Petricks and
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Lyrics:
When I was 10, I became obsessed
With video games and the like
I dreamed of Donkey Kong, Pong and then
Space Invaders through the night

At school we had a Commodore PET
We wore out the "A" key
Acid Rain, Weather and that
Dungeon game filled the screen.

Then I bought a Timex Sinclair
I began to learn how to hack
But I couldn't get it to save or load
So I promptly went to bring it back

Then I went to Duluth and was about to buy
A VIC-20 when my mom or
My dad said the wisest ever thing
"Why don't you buy a C-64?"

Oh yeah!

So I got my 64 (x2)
I adore my 64 (x4)

Old Time Commodore 64 Preview

Bedford Level Experiment 2013-08-03 | Hear the final track here: http://debsanderrol.bandcamp.com/track/commodore-64

Rianna of Bedford Level Experiment, figuring out the solo from Old Time Rock & Roll, in A. She's playing a Commodore 64 computer, with a 6581 SID, piano keyboard overlay, with a Cynthcart.

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