Hexed Silence: Stickerbush Symphony as the Internet’s Time Capsule

Pitchfork’s Sunday Review explains how David Wise’s Stickerbush Symphony, coded for the SNES using hex-based instrument creation, became a soothing, time-capsulated classic of Donkey Kong Country 2 and a touchstone of internet culture—resilient to replication but forever tied to its 64KB-era constraints.