Syphus (Brendan Ratliff) started playing piano, violin and Commodore Amiga in 1989, at the age of 6. After growing up with the demoscene, trackers and chipmusic, he eventually
started to release his tracked music in chipdisks and demos with the likes of CoolPhat, BDSE and Swedish megastars Up Rough.
Along with composing and performing professionally in various disciplines, I've performed live as Syphus regularly over the past few years - in Europe and North America as well as touring the UK twice with
Sabrepulse and the Chiptune Alliance. Recent activities include lecturing on chipmusic-related subjects at Newcastle University, giving public workshops on Amiga tracking, releasing
open-source chiptune performance software, performing at the likes of Blip Festival (NYC),
Game City (UK) and the first European Maker Faire and being an inebriated fixture at
various European demoparties.
If you need music for games, radio, tv or theatre, check out my freelance/portfolio site at www.echolevel.co.uk!
LATEST
The new full-length Syphus album, pro.tect, is out now. Listen for free on Bandcamp and, if you like it, buy it for a fiver to download it in high-quality mp3 or FLAC. 3 extra bonus tracks if you buy!