[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty --musicisjustone path

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:26:11PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:19 -1000, david wrote:
>>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:57 -1000, david wrote:
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>>>>>> Well, there is a Linux program that will read the entire contents of a
>>>>>> hard drive as though it were one big audio file.  So I guess we have
>>>>>> no more need for musicians, because that would be a collection of sine
>>>>>> waves of various frequencies, and that's all it takes.
>>>>> What's the name of that program? I want to listen to my /home folder! ;-)
>>>> cat(1)
>>> Cat to what?
>> cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/dsp^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
>>
>> to listen to ~:
>>
>> 	find ~ | xargs cat > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
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> Now, if I wanted to be a truly modern musician/artist, I'd hack up a bash script something like:
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> 	dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1M | lame --cbr 128 - mydisk.mp3

Cute, lots of high-pitched chirps and static sounds, some bouncing 
around between stereo sides. No discernible difference between dd and cat.

Catting a zip file into an MP3 produced what appears to be white noise.

Catting a JPG file into an MP3 produced a higher-pitched white noise, 
with faint traces of something like raindrops toward the end.

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David
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