Cleveland pianist and composer was last on Shuffle back in 2018 to talk about his project, 88-bit. The name is a combination of the 88 keys on the piano and the simple 8-bit music of the early console games. Kovacs has been creating note-for-note piano arrangements from games like Marble Madness.
Since then, he's been focusing on collaborations, working on . He also created medleys for The Game Audio Network Guild awards.
But Kovacs has a background as a singer/songwriter, playing in a piano-rock band called . After graduating from Baldwin-Wallace University, he and the band left for New York City. He eventually moved back to Cleveland, started his 88-bit project, and focused on finishing his solo debut, It's a conceptual album that tells the story of a relationship Kovacs was in, from the bliss to the heartbreak, and the struggle of moving on.
Kovacs is currently working on scoring a virtual reality video game called Straylight. He says he's also planning to record other songs that have been in the works for a new album.
