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Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs

Viznut demonstrates bytebeat, experimental music generated by extremely short C programs. It is the first of a series of videos on the technique.

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HN calls it the video that started the one-line-code music trend and recommends exploring the demoscene author's channel.

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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: [VIDEO] I also wrote piece of JavaScript that can play these programs in case you want to …
bemmu on Hacker News · 2014-06
In A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes
The video that started it all: [VIDEO] The follow-up post: "Some deep analysis of one-line music programs." [LINK]
creamyhorror on Hacker News · 2015-10
In Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code (2011)
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: [VIDEO] Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): [LINK]
msarnoff on Hacker News · 2015-11
In Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]

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