[linux-audio-user] graphics->sound

[Stephen Hassard]

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 at tiscali.fr> 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.