That is a seriously cool use of old computer equipment. loved it, but then again I'm a geek like that.

That is all :)

That's just freaking awesome! Turning that gawdawful flatbed scanner noise into music? Genius!

And the "gong" at the end... priceless!

Made me smile on a grim morning :-)

I tried this but my Scanjet 3c died and it just doesn't sound or look as good even though I replaced it with an Epson GT6000.

There are some things that just shouldn't be messed with.

(excellent effort though, made I smile)

Paris, she should be messed with.

Now that is brillIiant! To have the skill, patience, not to mention the musical and technical skill, to create that is definitely artistic!

I went to see We Will Rock You (the Queen Musical) the other week, and frankly this is far more entertaining :-o

How does someone even come up with an idea like that, let alone see it through?

Pure genius

That was good, very good - better than the original in places. ISTR that you could code IBM 360's to play tunes by generating radio interference. You could also get the golfball typewriter stripper too (if you need to ask you shouldn't really know)

Totally love it!

Now - own up, who's ripped it for their ringtone??? ;-)

Imagine the fun you could have with this, printing out a specially prepared text document and playing "Guess the tune" as it prints.

Looking forward to a new fad starting here.

I do enjoy the old retro music stuff, I like to load up my Commodore 64 SID emulator ever so often and listening to a nice Martin Galway track, oh I can be such a geek some days.

Anyhow, Bravo!

Nuff said...

I always joked that the photocopier was possessed by Stalin, but now I know that Freddie Mercury was reincarnated as a scanner I think I need a hug.

This is what I was hoping for from the article about the music made by old computer sounds a month or so ago (that used samples, bah!). This is hardcore!

Made my day! Fantastic!

Has bd594 being in contact with PRS/ASCAP or other collections agents for the MAFIAA, he could be sued for 30K for the irreparable damage he has caused the multimillionaires queen by not paying a licence fee.

Shame on you bd594, you shameless pirate for such a fragment breech of the copyright laws, will somebody not think of the poor musicians and record executive that have been damaged by such flagrant breeches of the copyright laws!!!!!

Paris, who has no shame either

Not quite as Flash (aaah-aaaaah), but the HP Scanjet 5P plays Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" straight out of the box - just select SCSI address 0, push the scan button and switch on.

Didn't someone do a similar thing with a Radiohead remix compo?

Now i know what my workmate does with all the old computers he kept over the years

"Auto-Tune can fix anything short of cats fighting in a bag."

Bugger.

Anyone want to buy a good-quality burlap sack, half-a-dozen cats, a complete recording studio / mixing desk setup and a CD pressing plant?

" you could code IBM 360's to play tunes by generating radio interference."

Failing that, you could remove the 'key click" and use it as a piledriver hammer

"You could also get the golfball typewriter stripper too"

Also available in dot matrix

Paris, who dosen't need a golfball typewriter.............

Playing music by paper tape on the old TTY?

Erm, showing my age....better have a little lie down now.

...they would have had this on "That's Life". Music performed on strange instruments was a regular feature on that programme.

There was an impact dot matrix printer (9 pin, I think) in the Faculty of Science computer room at Kingston Poly that I'm sure could have been made to play "Uranus - the Magician" from Holst's "Planets" suite if I'd composed a suitable print job. Fortunately for the faculty computing office, I never tried. Not only would it have been a waste of paper, but "That's Life" was still being broadcast back then...

^

Says it all.

My very first foray into the world of computing was this piece of kit. With it's massive cartridge slot and only 3 cartridges in existence it was cack.

However I took comfort in having to program 14 pages of code to get a tank game that would only fire at the aliens if you solved a math problem first. Playability fail.

I still have my 800XL.

Yup,

At school in the 60's. Visit to IBM Hursley. 360 using radio interference "playing" Bach.

would have been 67 or 68.