I reverse engineer win32 applications, more so some years ago but occasionally still do today.

The looping sequences of audio are familiar to me. lol.

Posted at 6:31 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by babble

i remember in high school i had a good friend who owned an occiliscope. we hooked it up to his stereo and played pink floyd dark side of the moon through the scope. i remeber looking at the patterns during on particular cut from the album and……….. well anyway it was early 1973 or so and we were young and having fun. seeing this article and others about occiliscopes and running different sounds and stuff through it brought bqack memories.

Posted at 6:37 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by kevin mcguigan

I used to load executable files into Wavelab and time stretch them back in my younger years. I recently looked at an old notebook and found an entry with some pseudo code for how I could do this with software now. Some kind of synchronicity to see someone has done almost exactly what I was planning.

Posted at 6:44 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by Grant Muller

still better then some of the songs we hear on those “Make your own instrument” hacks

Posted at 6:54 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by The Moogle

In my youth this was pretty easy to do – simply tune an AM radio and set it next to the TRS-80 :-)

Posted at 7:09 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by amd

haha @amd. I did that too!

Posted at 7:13 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by angrydroid

I remember of my first MSX program
something like that (don’t remember exactly the msx-basic instructions):

for i=1 to 65535
a=peak i
sound a
end

With this, I was able to hear the sound of the computer memory (sound takes an argument from 0 to 255 and peak reads the memory at indicated position).

It made a great music (I found at this time) especially in the beginning of the memory.

I didn’t remember if I did some cosine loops to slow the things down.

Should try this in an emulator.

Posted at 7:49 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by bjonnh

That was amazing! A few months ago a did something similar where I wrote a Java app to play back the “audio” of log files. It was spooky how similar mine sounded to the post.

I just might dust off my old code for that project and bring it to the next step. I had pondered about being able to parse a body of text like a log file into a midi file. Then having some tool that could allow you to play back the log until you here something interesting. At which point you could read the log to learn more about the anomaly or in my case the stack trace.

Posted at 8:47 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by David P.

Post the codes? Pweese?

Posted at 9:07 am on Oct 8th, 2009 by Dennis Booth

Aghh my deep structures

Posted at 7:04 pm on Oct 8th, 2009 by F7

This reminds me of something I would do with my Amiga and an Audiomaster 12-bit audio sampler (http://aadb.amiga.me/data/audiomasteriv31.html). There was a menu function called “RAM scan” that would scan the contents of memory and load them into the editor. You could change the speed and pitch. I would spend hours making techno-industrial sounding music.

Posted at 9:43 am on Oct 9th, 2009 by Anders von Tinkelhosen

cat > /dev/dsp I used to do this all the time when i was messing around with Linux.

Or under Windows use Audacity to import, and set format to u-Law, 8000Hz, Mono. Explorer.exe sounds cool. Oh and if there are actual audio samples inside you’ll hear them played back between the noise bursts. Freaky.

Posted at 4:20 pm on Oct 10th, 2009 by Th3_uN1Qu3