Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
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4:12 · 222K views · Sep 26, 2011
Viznut demonstrates bytebeat, experimental music generated by extremely short C programs. It is the first of a series of videos on the technique.
HN calls it the video that started the one-line-code music trend and recommends exploring the demoscene author's channel.
6 comments from Hacker News
You can also have procedural music. Viznut (a legendary Finnish democoder) did some experiments to see how short you could code something that still sounds at least interesting: this video I also wrote piece of JavaScript that can play these programs in case you want to try create your own: [LINK]
I've seen these floating around on YouTube, so you might have some luck searching there (be aware of your volume settings when playing these!) - [LINK] - this video And a longer write-up on the background from the second video: - [LINK] - [LINK] - [LINK]
The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel. Experimental music from very short C programs: this video Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): [LINK]
The video that started it all: this video The follow-up post: "Some deep analysis of one-line music programs." [LINK]
bemmu Hopefully you see this, unfortunately your comment is dead. Because I think your comment has value I will quote it here, please let me know if you'd like it removed. "You can also have procedural music. Viznut (a legendary Finnish democoder) did some experiments to see how short you could code something that still sounds at least interesting: this video I also wrote piece of JavaScript that can play these programs in case you want to try create your own: [LINK] "