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> You know, I told you about how it took 20000 lines of C code to generate the original piece. I’m pretty sure Dr. Moorer had to create almost everything by han

> You know, I told you about how it took 20000 lines of C code to generate the original piece. I’m pretty sure Dr. Moorer had to create almost everything by hand so that is not very awkward. But you know, we’ve been sctweeting for some time, trying to fill stuff into 140 characters of code. So for the fun of it, I tried to replicate the essential elements of the composition in 140 characters of code. I think it still sounds cool, here is the code (this one uses an F/E fundamental): > play{Mix({|k|k=k+1/2;2/kMix({|i|i=i+1;Blip.ar(iXLine.kr(rand(2e2,4e2),87+LFNoise2.kr(2)k,15),2,1/(i/a=XLine.kr(0.3,1,9))/9)}!9)}!40)!2a} > http://earslap.com/assets/thxdeepsound/soundtweet.mp3 http://earslap.com/assets/thxdeepsound/soundtweet.mp3 Absolutely crazy how people can fit all these things into these short snippets of code. The demo scene impresses me equally in this.

distract8901 3y ago
Huh. That resolution was not at all what I expected, but somehow just as good. I'm no good with music theory, but this sounds like it resolves to a diminished chord as opposed to the original major chord. It's deeply menacing instead of triumphant. I really like it.
- piva00 3y ago
  To me it sounds almost like converging Shepard tones from both sides of the spectrum, and I agree that the resolution is not the same chord (or at least there's a different quality to it).
voxadam 3y ago
> Absolutely crazy how people can fit all these things into these short snippets of code. It reminds me of Qrpff[0] a six or seven line (depending on version) Perl program that could be used to strip DSS from DVDs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpff
- CTDOCodebases 3y ago
  >> Absolutely crazy how people can fit all these things into these short snippets of code. This reminded me of "A Mind Is Born"[0] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php
  - bmitc 3y ago
    That's insane. Looking the person up, I guess it isn't a surprise that they're working at Teenage Engineering now. The demoscene is one of the areas of niche computing that's always interesting to me, even though I completely lack the skillset and even the interest to do things like that.
  - mock-possum 3y ago
    That’s haunting / hypnotic
bmitc 3y ago
This reminded me of the One-Liner Mathematica competition that Wolfram holds: https://blog.wolfram.com/2022/10/28/winners-of-the-2022-one-liner-and-get-visual-competitions/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2022/10/28/winners-of-the-2022-one-... https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/24/the-winners-of-the-2021-one-liner-competition/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/24/the-winners-of-the-2021-... https://blog.wolfram.com/2020/10/20/the-winners-of-the-2020-one-liner-competition/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2020/10/20/the-winners-of-the-2020-...

distract8901 3y ago

Huh. That resolution was not at all what I expected, but somehow just as good. I'm no good with music theory, but this sounds like it resolves to a diminished chord as opposed to the original major chord. It's deeply menacing instead of triumphant. I really like it.

piva00 3y ago
To me it sounds almost like converging Shepard tones from both sides of the spectrum, and I agree that the resolution is not the same chord (or at least there's a different quality to it).

voxadam 3y ago

> Absolutely crazy how people can fit all these things into these short snippets of code. It reminds me of Qrpff[0] a six or seven line (depending on version) Perl program that could be used to strip DSS from DVDs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpff

CTDOCodebases 3y ago
>> Absolutely crazy how people can fit all these things into these short snippets of code. This reminded me of "A Mind Is Born"[0] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php
- bmitc 3y ago
  That's insane. Looking the person up, I guess it isn't a surprise that they're working at Teenage Engineering now. The demoscene is one of the areas of niche computing that's always interesting to me, even though I completely lack the skillset and even the interest to do things like that.
- mock-possum 3y ago
  That’s haunting / hypnotic

bmitc 3y ago

This reminded me of the One-Liner Mathematica competition that Wolfram holds: https://blog.wolfram.com/2022/10/28/winners-of-the-2022-one-liner-and-get-visual-competitions/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2022/10/28/winners-of-the-2022-one-... https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/24/the-winners-of-the-2021-one-liner-competition/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/24/the-winners-of-the-2021-... https://blog.wolfram.com/2020/10/20/the-winners-of-the-2020-one-liner-competition/ https://blog.wolfram.com/2020/10/20/the-winners-of-the-2020-...