Experimental music from very short C programs

MrValBar1 Says:

Nov 7, 2011 - It sounds better than Skrillex.

swmicro1 Says:

Nov 14, 2011 - main(t)  WTF???

trianglemangler Says:

Nov 14, 2011 - Completely blown my mind.

mushu5t Says:

Nov 18, 2011 - Here's one that sounds exactly like music.Hasn't repeated once at all during 66 seconds.t * ((t>>14|t>>9)&92&t>>5)even has an ending! :D SWEET!

sikthehedgehog Says:

Nov 19, 2011 - it's using argc as a counter instead of making a new variable...

swmicro1 Says:

Nov 19, 2011 - main(t) Where is a type of argument? I think it's suppose to be like that:int main( int t )

viznut Says:

Nov 20, 2011 - It's called source code length optimization, so it definitely is intentional. Every C compiler that cares about backward compatibility allows omitting the type in these cases, despite what today's standards require.

TheTelephoneCompany Says:

Nov 30, 2011 - This is awesome haha. Check out my Experimental tracks! 

Sphereal Says:

Dec 2, 2011 - This is a sample of Aphex Twin´s newest album.

cmoran131 Says:

Dec 2, 2011 - t*t*~((t>>16|t>>12)&215&~t>>8)

EvanElberson Says:

Dec 4, 2011 - sweet

jarblewarble Says:

Dec 11, 2011 - I wonder whether he was inspired by this. I'm an Aphex Twin fan and I also like computer-generated music.

jarblewarble Says:

Dec 11, 2011 - I think many of Aphex Twin's songs could have been composed using samples of the output of these simple programs, re-arranged in more "harmonic" ways.

jarblewarble Says:

Dec 13, 2011 - t*((t>>9|t>>13)&(t)&t>>10)

MagicalSunrise1984 Says:

Dec 16, 2011 - hehe - real cool!

twitchalmighty Says:

Dec 19, 2011 - Have any of you ever thought of perhaps using these in a signal transmitted through SETI, or by a similar organization? The Algorithmic patterns seen in each of the tunes, if received by an extraterrestrial Intelligence, may in fact be recognized as such. Where all three iterations would have to be sent. Only curious.

TheLifeEnigma Says:

Jan 3, 2012 - What?! That was incredible! Definitely something to play around with and sample!

flamepygmy Says:

Jan 30, 2012 - Inspired by this, I made my own: youtube.com/watch?v=ePN8cyaU0og

jarblewarble Says:

Feb 6, 2012 - (t>>((t>>(3)|t>>(5)))&(63)&t>>7)*t

reconstructiv Says:

Feb 15, 2012 - i would be very curious about doing this on C64, you know anything about that or have a link to anything?

viznut Says:

Feb 16, 2012 - Some of the formulas in these videos have been succesfully implemented on Atari VCS (search "generative music on the atari 2600"). For something more tied to the register set of the soundchip, you can e.g. take the VIC-20 code from my article "16-byte frontier" as the basis and substitute a SID address there. (I've tried it, it works fine). 4mat has also some standalone C-64 bit-twiddler music besides Wallflower.

nairbomanmusic Says:

Apr 2, 2012 - Wow, Fasinating stuff.

SoundBlastStudio Says:

Apr 26, 2012 - nice

DarkLobster100 Says:

May 11, 2012 - Before the dubstep was created

o0OfficialRedZone0o Says:

May 25, 2012 - I am now discovering computer music