Friday, February 11, 2011

Singing random access Kpfe: the computer never creaks Ser

The drive is humming, the scanner is booming, the dot matrix printer is flashing already excited: hobbyists turning old computer accessories in musical instruments, without any speakers. The latest hit is a fugue by Bach. An overview of the most beautiful songs of hardware, from Radiohead to the Christmas carol.

Music is nothing more than a series of frequencies. Just like the sounds that make moving computer parts. With the right commands can coax the sound equipment in a specific frequency and order: Bazinga - music. Back in the eighties, made the first software hobbyists are not actually provided musical characteristics of their machines utilized.

Today, hardware singing a veritable genre, with stars, hits and evergreens. Hippest performer of the day: An old computer case with four disk drives, 3.5 and 5.25 inches, which are connected to a microcontroller and can be controlled by data in the MIDI format. All 128 shades, which provides the standard should be able to give the equipment for the best.

Here, four notes are issued simultaneously. The producer of the music machine, the YouTube user FunToTheHead demonstrates the potential of his young stars with Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach - and a cross reference to the "Phantom of the Opera". Let's sing the drives: not bad, right? What can compose from the sounds of flatbed scanners, dot matrix printers and computer engineering from the eighties, we show in our review: Milestones of the hardware musical.

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