Comments on: Musical typewriter

By: Jason Knight

Jason Knight — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:17:47 +0000

Reminds me a bit of the old Jerry Lewis routine

By: polymath

polymath — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:52:55 +0000

I was thinking of something a bit less cryptic and established as sheet music but thanks for thinking inside the box.

I did some digging and apparently the guy who could sing his phone number was “phreaking”. not that different to the blue box that was popular back in the late 70′s and early 80′s. this is no longer possible since the last phone trunk to use audio for switching went off line back in 06.

By: Martin_k

Martin_k — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:34:15 +0000

Does it go up an octave with shift/caps lock on?? :D

By: DanAdamKOF

DanAdamKOF — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:51:38 +0000

fedora sighted!…

By: razor

razor — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:51:36 +0000

It appears that if you hit the same key multiple times it plays the same note, but I can’t tell if it plays another note when you come back to that key after hitting something else. Ya know, this would be cooler if you could (through software of course) “listen” to what the person is typing (contextually) and change the notes to major or minor scales or intensify the sounds depending on the “mood” of what’s being typed.

By: bueno

bueno — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:18:38 +0000

With regard to:

We have often commented that we’re a bit tired of hearing random notes when someone sends us a musical project… This just might be an exception to the rule.

consider:

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” –John Cage.

By: Adam Ziegler

Adam Ziegler — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:39:54 +0000

*sigh*

http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/stories/esq-art.html

By: Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:10:22 +0000

There was a documentary on hackers that showed someone who could supposedly do that. He was blind. This was back in the days of phone freaking. Not sure exactly how that works, though it is fairly easy to whistle and hum at the same time.

By: dcpyatt

dcpyatt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:04:06 +0000

I used to be able to whistle carriers to get modems to connect…

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:50:09 +0000

@polymath

Really? How did he manage to sing BOTH tones at the same time? Phones use DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple Frequency) for dialing.

By: TMH

TMH — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:58:30 +0000

polymath, they have that. It’s called “sheet music” lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_music

By: jimmythechip

jimmythechip — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:38:41 +0000

“an acception to the rule” ?

“an exception to the rule”

By: polymath

polymath — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:38:24 +0000

I knew a guy back in college that had perfect pitch and could “sing” his phone number on a pay phone to dial the number instead of punching the keys. Makes me wonder what a song would look like as text instead. Or if patterns would emerge in different authors or styles of writing.