Music with AWK

by johnbender • 15 years ago

74 15 15 years ago

You'll want to pipe it into `aplay -r 64000`. At least my copy of aplay incorrectly guesses the rate so you have to tell it.

krakensden• 15 years ago

Thank you- that sounds much more pleasant.

frytaz• 15 years ago

How can i make it work on osx?

jesvs• 15 years ago

pipe it into SoX

awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 16 -r 44100 -s -t raw - -d

jackowayed• 15 years ago

And you can install sox from homebrew. (I, at least, didn't have it installed by default)

shadowpwner• 15 years ago

Oh, the power and beauty of the pentatonic scale.

jpitz• 15 years ago

You reminded me of http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_wit...

Vvick727• 15 years ago

haha, reminds me of the social network.

srean• 15 years ago

Here is Paul Hudak's library for creating music in Haskell

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore and here are some samples that you can listen to http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thielema/Music/HAL2/mi...

He also discusses it in chapter 20 of his book. I was quite surprised to know that he is currently on medical leave due to a rare form of leukemia. Surprised, because leukemia has been on the radar on HN (as well as on personal front) lately.

I know it is selection bias, but it still feels weird when coincidences like that happen in clusters.

vitorbal• 15 years ago

This is a little (a lot) off-topic but I liked the way he conveys his contact details in that image to the left, heh.

abecedarius• 15 years ago

You don't need to end all those lines with backslashes, BTW.

acqq2• 15 years ago

Anybody knows if the faster "chirping" sounds in the background can be eliminated? If there were only "slow" chimes I think it would really be very suitable for meditation purposes.

keenerd2• 15 years ago

There is no faster chirping sound. I'm guessing you are using Jesvs's sox line? I was very surprised sox was able to work at all, half of the settings were wrong. Try

awk [...] | sox -c 1 -b 8 -r 64k -e unsigned -t raw - -d

instead. No clicking/popping with that.

acqq2• 15 years ago

I've just listened to the mp3 linked from the page (http://kmkeen.com/tmp/awkbient.mp3) and I've heard the sounds I've described. I hear it like "(loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-bbrrr (loud:) dong (quieter:) brrr-brrr-brrr (loud:) dong" The brr-brr sounds are the unpleasant ones. I hear them also when listening to wav made by lame --decode of mp3.

keenerd2• 15 years ago

Hey, it is HN again. I would have about four times as many points if I ever remembered to post any of my stuff here. :-)

Thanks for the feedback, will update it with regards to osx later.

Music with AWK

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