Wow, that's an impressive one, and I'm not sure how they did it. The "music" I always made was pretty simple, created by printing specially crafted text files to take advantage of the noise made by (a) the printing of the print head, (b) the movement of the print head, and (c) the rotation of the platen. It basically turns the printer into a bizarre rhythm/percussion instrument.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0QHY7S-OtU (Please note that I didn't do that myself. That was created by the band Man or Astro-Man? None of my own creations survived the march of time, as it was just a short-term creative obsession that lasted a few weeks. Probably my best accomplishment was a passable cover of "Mary Had a Little Lamb".) The whole process was pretty fun. I ended up developing a system of rules that accounted for how far to space characters in order to achieve a desired tempo and rhythm (how many spaces between quarter notes vs. whole notes, or how many printed characters to create a sustained whole note, all given a certain tempo in BPM, etc.), and what kinds of printed characters resulted in what pitches/timbres (the pitch tended to be inversely correlated with the size of the character being printed). I went so far as to create a program in BASIC that employed the algorithm to help generate the text file that was to be printed. My own (at that time) ancient AtariWriter 1025 printer was too slow and it only printed in one direction, which seriously limited its expressiveness, but my roommate's AppleWriter II had neither of those issues, so it saw most of the action. CAM > On Jan 21, 2021, at 04:58, VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN <jan.vandenboss...@vivaqua.be> > wrote: > > Like this ? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbP7OkQ8LQ > > How do you do that? > > Jan Vanden Bossche > VIVAQUA - DO/DIT - Service desk > T : 02/518.83.50 GSM: 0476/56.25.76 > > -----Original Message----- > From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of C.Magaret > Sent: woensdag 20 januari 2021 20:48 > To: m...@bitchin100.com > Subject: Re: [M100] printer music > > Indeed, that was one of my unusual pastimes back in the ‘90s. The Apple > ImageWriter II was my axe of choice. One of my housemates would then sample > it with his EMU Emax and fold it into other songs. > > CAM > > -- > > C.A. Magaret > > Sent from my newfangled mobile technogizmo. Please forgive any typos, > inelegant brevity, or nonsensical auto-corrections. > >> On Jan 20, 2021, at 10:27, Peter Vollan <dprogra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Has anyone here ever made music with dot matrix printers? >> > > [http://www.vivaqua.be/facebook.png] Rejoignez-nous sur Facebook - Volg ons > op Facebook > > DISCLAIMER > Pensez à l'environnement, n'imprimez cette page et ses annexes que si c'est > nécessaire. Ce message électronique, y compris ses annexes, est confidentiel > et réservé à l’attention de son destinataire. Si vous n'êtes pas le > destinataire de ce message, merci de le détruire et d’en informer > l’expéditeur. Toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation de ce mail est dans ce > cas interdite. La sécurité et l'exactitude des transmissions de messages > électroniques ne peuvent être garanties. > Denk aan het milieu; druk deze pagina en de bijlagen alleen af als het nodig > is. Dit e-mailbericht (inclusief zijn bijlagen) is vertrouwelijk en is > uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als dit bericht niet voor u > bestemd is, wordt u verzocht het te wissen en de afzender te informeren. Het > is in dat geval niet toegestaan dit bericht te verspreiden, te kopiëren of te > gebruiken. We kunnen niet garanderen dat de gegevensoverdracht via het > internet veilig en nauwkeurig is.
