2011/12/06 by Ville-Matias Heikkilä, Heikkilä, Ville-Matias · 1 voice
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #cs.SD
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1112.1368
arxiv created 2011/12/06 · openalex publication_date 2011/12/06 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Very short computer programs, sometimes consisting of as few as three arithmetic operations in an infinite loop, can generate data that sounds like music when output as raw PCM audio. The space of such programs was recently explored by dozens of individuals within various on-line communities. This paper discusses the programs resulting from this exploratory work and highlights some rather unusual methods they use for synthesizing sound and generating musical structure.