What happens to old computers when they die? If they’re very lucky, they get turned into music and dance.
In the 60s, engineers found that the IBM 1401 mainframe could be ‘tuned’ to produce music on a nearby AM radio. A recording was made and 40 years later, it has been turned into a song and dance performance.
There’s a video of the performance on Wired. It’s extraordinary.
What’s next? I hope someone’s going to do “Sinclair Spectrum loading from tape, the un-musical.” Or perhaps “Jet Set Willy, the Opera.”
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Never mind melodious mainframes…how about the tuned up tesla coil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U
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you could look at some of the Aphex Twin output by richard james IIRC he sampled pacman for a track