I remember back in the day (probably 14 years ago) when mod/s3m was the big music thing; A competition was held to compose "chipit" music using your windows/dos configuration files (think autoexec.bat, config.sys, etc.) as digital instruments. Some of the talented individuals created some very entertaining pieces. As a bonus it was fun to export the instruments and see what their configuration consisted of (and if anyone cheated by forcing whitespace/capitalization). later, Steve Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 16:20, Florian Schmidt wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:42:13 +0000 >> >> Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi Georg. Does that really work, or are we going into the realms of sheer >>> fantasy (Twilight zone) . Nigel. aka mekon, farpoint, and many other >>> sci-fi characters and places. >> well, it works only if you either >> >> a] have OSS drivers installed or >> >> b] have the ALSA OSS compat. module loaded.. >> >> Nonetheless, here's an alsa version: >> >> cat foo.pdf | aplay >> >> ;) >> >> Have fun, >> Flo > > Hi Flo. I take back all I said about sheer fantasy. I just ran, > evolution-usb-midi.pdf. Only 25.3KB. CLI said. Playing raw data 'stdin' : > Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000Hz, Mono. It sounded like very, very heavy metal > guitars, with lots of distortion. A lot like the sort of stuff John Peel was > playing during his thrash period. It only ran for about 2 secs. I;ll have to > try a bigger .pdf. This is getting very interesting. Creating music (cough) > from the written word. Nigel. aka mekon, and all the other sci-fi guys.
