{"id":28797,"date":"2013-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/28797\/beating-scores-scoring-beats-the-8-bit-sounds-of-rhea-dally"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:43:58","slug":"beating-scores-scoring-beats-the-8-bit-sounds-of-rhea-dally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/28797\/beating-scores-scoring-beats-the-8-bit-sounds-of-rhea-dally\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating Scores, Scoring Beats: The 8-Bit Sounds of Rhea Dally"},"content":{"rendered":"The last time you held a Nintendo Game Boy between your hands – if ever – you were probably nothing more than a child making an Italian plumber leap over flaming barrels. The technology may be a bit outdated, but one Lebanese artist is bringing the vintage video games of our childhood back to life. It\u2019s not games she’s playing, it\u2019s music. Meet Rhea Dally, Lebanon\u2019s one and only live chiptune artist.



At this point, many of you may be wondering \u201cWhat is chiptune<\/i> anyway?\u201d As Dally herself puts it: \u201cChiptune is a style of synthesized electronic music made by using sound hardware\/sound chips (hence the name) from vintage gaming consoles and systems, microcomputers from the late 1970s early 80s, and music production software\u201d.

Dally was first exposed to chiptune by a friend at the age of 15, and from there she was hooked. A year later she began experimenting with her own chiptune productions, utilizing emulators (software which duplicates the functions of one computer system, like a Game Boy, in another, like a personal computer), and trackers, a type of music sequencing software.