[HN Gopher] Linuxwave: Generate Music from the Entropy of Linux
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       Linuxwave: Generate Music from the Entropy of Linux
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-04-17 10:01 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | prohobo wrote:
       | I took on a similar project recently, and realized the data
       | sounds boring (as anyone would), but I wonder if instead of
       | generating notes from data you could map to a scale of motifs.
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       | If you write the motifs to seamlessly transition then you can get
       | musical data without any manual steps (besides the definition of
       | the motifs).
        
       | dimatura wrote:
       | Certainly an improvement on the ol' "cat /dev/urandom >
       | /dev/audio"!
        
         | bertman wrote:
         | Or (from the readme):                 cat /dev/urandom |
         | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{
         | split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+=
         | 0.0001) printf("%08X\n",
         | 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1%8+1]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p |
         | aplay -c 2 -f S32_LE -r 16000
        
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