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Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)4 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2014-2023
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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.

Demoscene & retrocomputingMusic theory, synthesis & productionCreative coding & generative art#bytebeat#viznut#demoscene#algorithmicmusic#cprogramming

6 comments from Hacker News

@rzzzt2023 · in “Play (1) Linux manual page”

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

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@sitkack2021 · in “A Mind Is Born (2017)”

Reminds me somewhat of "Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs" ▶ this video in its compactness. Previously from link see also Ibniz, link

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@msarnoff2015 · in “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]”

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

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@creamyhorror2015 · in “Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code (2011)”

The video that started it all: ▶ this video The follow-up post: "Some deep analysis of one-line music programs." link

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@malnourish2014 · in “A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes”

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 "

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@bemmu2014 · in “A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes”

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

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