I'm reminded of one of my favourite pieces of "music", the Symphony For Dot Matrix Printers. Basically, a couple Canadians acquired a crop of old printers, wire

I'm reminded of one of my favourite pieces of "music", the Symphony For Dot Matrix Printers. Basically, a couple Canadians acquired a crop of old printers, wired them up to some equally old computers, and figured out how to feed them all sorts of interesting printing instructions. Listening very carefully to the resulting sounds, they figured out how exactly to place microphones to capture all the fascinating sonic nuances, organizing the printers and their noises into various instrumental roles. They composed a surprisingly musical work for the printers to play, as though they were an orchestra, which was performed live and recorded. The recording is rather difficult to track down, but is quite a treat for enthusiasts of real "computer music". They sound like printers. But they sound like printers, re-imagined by people who hear music in everything. For anyone interested, here is their very, very old website: http://www.theuser.org/dotmatrix/en/intro.html http://www.theuser.org/dotmatrix/en/intro.html There was a symphony #2, but the first is the better of the two in my opinion.