Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN calls it the video that started the one-line-code music trend and recommends exploring the demoscene author's channel.
What it is
Viznut demonstrates bytebeat, experimental music generated by extremely short C programs. It is the first of a series of videos on the technique.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2014 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends bemmu · 2014-06 · on “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]
Recommends creamyhorror · 2015-10 · on “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]
Recommends msarnoff · 2015-11 · on “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]
Recommends rzzzt · 2023-06 · on “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]
Cites malnourish · 2014-06 · on “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] "
Cites sitkack · 2021-03 · on “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]