88bit 🎹
Award-winning pianist and composer, note-for-note piano arrangements of NES soundtracks and other VGM, aka @robkovacs.bsky.social
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- I'm super pumped for MAGFest this weekend! You can catch me playing with - @megaran.com , VGM Collective and GLHF! You can also hear a recording of me playing during The Tiberian Sons set. I'll have a limited amount of merch with me as well. See you soon!
- Reposted by 88bit 🎹Join me Saturday at 8:15 EST for Press Play a charity event supporting @HopeForTheDay at twitch.tv/robkovacs
- I'm excited to announce I'll be a featured guest performing with the Video Game Symphony at the Akron Civic Theater, Sat, Nov 22 at 7:30. They have a great program planned and I'm stoked to be a part of it! Go to videogamesymphony.com for tickets and info. I hope to see you there!
- Reposted by 88bit 🎹If you missed the Pixels & Melodies video game music concert in Munich a few months back, fret not! You can now watch @julieelven.bsky.social and @robkovacs.bsky.social / @88bit.bsky.social’s live performance of Strange Flower from Corpse Factory on YouTube!!! youtu.be/LA-cjGIsSZc?...
- For Your GRAMMY® Consideration for BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO - Katawa Shoujo Piano Collections Here is Raindrops and Puddles by composer Sebastien Skaf - one of the strongest compositions which also features some of my best piano playing on the album. Enjoy! youtu.be/PwJ8CpWa-kc
- My arrangement of Sidon's Theme from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is out on all streaming services. Audio and sheet music is available through Patreon. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated! youtu.be/2oV7WOm2teE
- My Severance Hall debut performing my Gusty Garden Galaxy piano cadenza with The Video Game Symphony. It was quite a thrill!
- Please take a moment to enjoy my performance of "Concord" from the Katawa Shoujo Piano Collections composed and arranged by Sebastien Skaf and released by @materiacollective.com youtu.be/Wt1j6ONm5hg A big thank you @kim-sutton.bsky.social for her wonderful editing of this video. 🙏
- Watch "Air" from Katawa Shoujo written and arranged by Sebastien Skaf. This is part of the official Piano Collections that I recently recorded for @materiamusic.com. Let me know what you think! A huge thanks to @kim-sutton.bsky.social for helping film and edit the video! youtu.be/6eLfXg5hdyA
- Two new @CuragaRecords Video Game LoFi albums -- Final Fantasy and Paper Mario! I collabed with producer @HotlineSehwani co-arranging and playing the piano for "Main Title" from Paper Mario. And you can hear my piano on Lunar Serenade (FFXVI), produced by Save Point and Wutai. #vgm #vgmvinyl
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- 1 week till we perform in Germany!
- Only 1 week until the Pixels & Melodies video game concert with @robkovacs.bsky.social (@88bit.bsky.social ) and @julieelven.bsky.social!!! A rare opportunity to hear game music performed live in #munich by some of the game industry's most talented people! Grab your ticket below! #gamemusic
- I figured I'd share a little background on how this Katawa Shoujo project came to be. If interested you can read about it here - www.robkovacsmusic.com/blog/katawa-...
- To celebrate the release of the Katawa Shoujo Piano Collections, here is a video of probably my favorite piece from the album - Romance in Andante. Composed by Sebastien Skaf, this lovely Chopin-inspired piece with sparkling right hand flourishes was a joy to learn. Enjoy! youtu.be/47Mk-dazY9E
- I'm excited for you all to hear this. :)
- The Katawa Shoujo Piano Collections album is now out everywhere on @materiacollective.com! This album features my best piano playing to date and appeals to lovers of classical piano music. Everything was recorded in my home studio on a Boston grand piano. Listen here open.spotify.com/album/3SfsVW...
- Sounds like Chopin… But it’s actually from the visual novel @Katawa_Shoujo. 🎮🎹 Music by Sebastien Skaf 🎧 Full performance in comments #KatawaShoujo #VGM #Piano #IndieGame #ChopinVibes #EmotionalMusic
- New video drop! L’étoile — by Sebastien Skaf — is one of the most beautiful and deceptively challenging pieces on my upcoming Katawa Shoujo piano album. Watch the full performance: youtu.be/ec8ARWA7-cM @materiacollective.com @materiaeditions.com
- Huge news! I’m performing my first-ever European 88bit piano concert—live in Munich, Germany on June 18! AND, I’ll be joined by the breathtaking soundtrack vocalist @julieelven.bsky.social! Huge thanks to composer @alecshea.com for making this concert happen. www.eventbrite.de/e/pixels-mel...
- After 7 months of intense practicing, recording and mixing the music, I've finally submitted the final track for the Katawa Shoujo Piano Collections album. What a project this has been! 😅 It's been quite exhausting especially with all the other performing, traveling and recording I've been doing.
- I'm very excited to share the first video from the upcoming Katawa Shoujo Piano Collections, which I’ve been recording and are scheduled for release this June on @materiacollective.com! (thread)
- I’ve been working tirelessly on this project for the past six months, putting my all into learning and recording these beautifully composed and arranged pieces by Sebastien Skaf at the highest level I can.
- Legend has it this is how the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack was conceived
- I'm excited to share my latest video game piano arrangement: Game Corner (from Pokémon Gold & Silver) by composed @goichinose.bsky.social! I recorded and arranged this for the VGM Pianists Pokémon tribute album — and you should definitely check that out too! 🎧 ➡️ youtu.be/PgqDgYwIP8w (1/3)
- The VGM Pianists just released a tribute album to Pokémon which features my first ever Pokémon arrangement - Game Corner from Gold & Silver! It's a very rhythmic, high-energy song that really slaps! Give it a listen as well as the whole album here - fanlink.tv/PokemonVGMPi...
- This Saturday at 7:30 EDT, I’ll be performing my Marble Madness piano arrangement at the North American Conference on Video Game Music in Cleveland! 🎹🕹️ It’s a 2-day event full of fascinating talks on VGM. Join online or in person: nacvgm.org #ludomusicology #nacvgm
- New collab with Dom!
- The sheet music for my Radical Dreamers arrangement is out now! It’s a detailed transcription of my performance—expertly transcribed by Pablo Enver and carefully edited by me. Hope you enjoy playing it! 🎹 www.musicnotes.com/l/TTFrJ
- I have new music out today! -- L'Etoile from Katawa Shoujo composed by Sebastien Skaf. It's a very serene and beautiful little piece -- one of my favorites from the collection that I've been recording. open.spotify.com/track/0E7SLx...
- I'm very honored that my recording/arrangement of Radical Dreamers from Chrono Cross has been nominated for a Game Remix Award!
- Here's a link to the recording. It's also available on spotify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4NV...
- Reposted by 88bit 🎹21 years ago today, I gave the world premiere *solo* performance of Piano Phase by Steve Reich. Learning this piece was a defining experience that shaped the way I play piano - the ultimate challenge in hand independence! Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQd...
- Reposted by 88bit 🎹It was a thrill performing @awintory.bsky.social ’s "What's Yours Is Mine" from Monaco in front of 1000+ people at GDC. This version is fairly true to the OST version, though I did beef it up a bit for the performance. Huge thanks to Austin for trusting me with this solo moment!
- Was great meeting the author of the Rygar Book! @retrogamebooks.com
