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Music with AWK

74 points by johnbender 16y ago

burgerbrain 16y ago
You'll want to pipe it into `aplay -r 64000`. At least my copy of aplay incorrectly guesses the rate so you have to tell it.
- krakensden 16y ago
  Thank you- that sounds much more pleasant.
frytaz 16y ago
How can i make it work on osx?
- jesvs 16y ago
  pipe it into SoX awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 16 -r 44100 -s -t raw - -d
  - jackowayed 16y ago
    And you can install sox from homebrew. (I, at least, didn't have it installed by default)
shadowpwner 16y ago
Oh, the power and beauty of the pentatonic scale.
- jpitz 16y ago
  You reminded me of http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_wit...
Vvick727 16y ago
haha, reminds me of the social network.
srean 16y ago
Here is Paul Hudak's library for creating music in Haskell http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore and here are some samples that you can listen to http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thielema/Music/HAL2/midi-haskore/ http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thielema/Music/HAL2/mi... He also discusses it in chapter 20 of his book. I was quite surprised to know that he is currently on medical leave due to a rare form of leukemia. Surprised, because leukemia has been on the radar on HN (as well as on personal front) lately. I know it is selection bias, but it still feels weird when coincidences like that happen in clusters.
vitorbal 16y ago
This is a little (a lot) off-topic but I liked the way he conveys his contact details in that image to the left, heh.
abecedarius 16y ago
You don't need to end all those lines with backslashes, BTW.
acqq 16y ago
Anybody knows if the faster "chirping" sounds in the background can be eliminated? If there were only "slow" chimes I think it would really be very suitable for meditation purposes.
- keenerd 16y ago
  There is no faster chirping sound. I'm guessing you are using Jesvs's sox line? I was very surprised sox was able to work at all, half of the settings were wrong. Try awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 8 -r 64k -e unsigned -t raw - -d instead. No clicking/popping with that.
  - acqq 16y ago
    I've just listened to the mp3 linked from the page (http://kmkeen.com/tmp/awkbient.mp3 http://kmkeen.com/tmp/awkbient.mp3) and I've heard the sounds I've described. I hear it like "(loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-bbrrr (loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-brrr (loud:) dong" The brr-brr sounds are the unpleasant ones. I hear them also when listening to wav made by lame --decode of mp3.
keenerd 16y ago
Hey, it is HN again. I would have about four times as many points if I ever remembered to post any of my stuff here. :-) Thanks for the feedback, will update it with regards to osx later.

74 points by johnbender 16y ago

You'll want to pipe it into `aplay -r 64000`. At least my copy of aplay incorrectly guesses the rate so you have to tell it.

krakensden 16y ago
Thank you- that sounds much more pleasant.

frytaz 16y ago

How can i make it work on osx?

jesvs 16y ago
pipe it into SoX awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 16 -r 44100 -s -t raw - -d
- jackowayed 16y ago
  And you can install sox from homebrew. (I, at least, didn't have it installed by default)

shadowpwner 16y ago

Oh, the power and beauty of the pentatonic scale.

jpitz 16y ago
You reminded me of http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_wit...

Vvick727 16y ago

haha, reminds me of the social network.

srean 16y ago

Here is Paul Hudak's library for creating music in Haskell http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore and here are some samples that you can listen to http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thielema/Music/HAL2/midi-haskore/ http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thielema/Music/HAL2/mi... He also discusses it in chapter 20 of his book. I was quite surprised to know that he is currently on medical leave due to a rare form of leukemia. Surprised, because leukemia has been on the radar on HN (as well as on personal front) lately. I know it is selection bias, but it still feels weird when coincidences like that happen in clusters.

vitorbal 16y ago

This is a little (a lot) off-topic but I liked the way he conveys his contact details in that image to the left, heh.

abecedarius 16y ago

You don't need to end all those lines with backslashes, BTW.

acqq 16y ago

Anybody knows if the faster "chirping" sounds in the background can be eliminated? If there were only "slow" chimes I think it would really be very suitable for meditation purposes.

keenerd 16y ago
There is no faster chirping sound. I'm guessing you are using Jesvs's sox line? I was very surprised sox was able to work at all, half of the settings were wrong. Try awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 8 -r 64k -e unsigned -t raw - -d instead. No clicking/popping with that.
- acqq 16y ago
  I've just listened to the mp3 linked from the page (http://kmkeen.com/tmp/awkbient.mp3 http://kmkeen.com/tmp/awkbient.mp3) and I've heard the sounds I've described. I hear it like "(loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-bbrrr (loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-brrr (loud:) dong" The brr-brr sounds are the unpleasant ones. I hear them also when listening to wav made by lame --decode of mp3.

keenerd 16y ago

Hey, it is HN again. I would have about four times as many points if I ever remembered to post any of my stuff here. :-) Thanks for the feedback, will update it with regards to osx later.