MS-paint

quite awesome actually.

http://soundcloud.com/r2bl3nd/windows-7-x64-ms-paint-exe

how?

surprised it sounds so cool!! i've done shit like that before and it usually sounds more like noise with no melody.

if you're on unix (macs are) you can do stuff like this in the console:

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

where /dev/dsp is your audio device. it'll pump out white noise... digital noise source. :)

you can also pipe out executables like above... but like i said, i never got anything that cool out of 'em myself!

if you open up the executables Adobe Photoshop or Cooledit Pro 2.0 in a wave editor as raw data it sounds even better than this. funny how this and the beiber stretch thing seem to almost at random catch on on soundcloud, when people have been doing very similar things for over 10 years

^People who aren't hardcore into electronic music seem to be pretty easily impressed and/or freaked out by the simplest things. You can bitcrush a square wave & they'll be all like "OMG GAMEBOY NOISES HOW'D U DO"

I'm more interested with the end result, than the process.

doom/doom2 pcx files sound pretty good too, almost like distorted guitar!

also, what's the deal with this kind of audio trickery getting popular years after i (and undoubtedly many others) discovered it? importing raw data as waveform data was one of the first things i did when i started getting into electronic music. am i just not good at spamming the fuck out of my ideas?!

Can you open sound files as raw data in a visual editor?

yeah, but i think most of the time it's just noise. i don't think i've ever had any interesting results opening non-image files as raw.

  On 3/11/2011 at 2:33 AM, DerWaschbar said:

Can you open sound files as raw data in a visual editor?

Photoshop can open raw data, usually it looks like a complex series of geometrical black and white gradients

I was thinking of exporting a section of music as wav, inputing it as raw data into say photo shop and making a few adjustments and then reloading the edited image back as an audio file and re-integrating it in my DAW.

  On 3/11/2011 at 4:29 AM, DerWaschbar said:

I was thinking of exporting a section of music as wav, inputing it as raw data into say photo shop and making a few adjustments and then reloading the edited image back as an audio file and re-integrating it in my DAW.

there used to be a whole webpage devoted to which photoshop effects make the best audio effects, if i find it ill link it here

  On 3/11/2011 at 5:02 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 4:29 AM, DerWaschbar said:

I was thinking of exporting a section of music as wav, inputing it as raw data into say photo shop and making a few adjustments and then reloading the edited image back as an audio file and re-integrating it in my DAW.

 

there used to be a whole webpage devoted to which photoshop effects make the best audio effects, if i find it ill link it here

Ah, that sounds awesome! If you find it let me know.

  On 3/11/2011 at 5:02 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 4:29 AM, DerWaschbar said:

I was thinking of exporting a section of music as wav, inputing it as raw data into say photo shop and making a few adjustments and then reloading the edited image back as an audio file and re-integrating it in my DAW.

 

there used to be a whole webpage devoted to which photoshop effects make the best audio effects, if i find it ill link it here

there's also that software which allows you to export the spectrograph of an audio file as an image, for use in photoshop etc, and can import it again to apply the effects losslessly (zole is that a word?), can't remember the name though argh!

That sounds great, I'll have a look around.

  On 3/11/2011 at 6:08 AM, modey said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 5:02 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 4:29 AM, DerWaschbar said:

I was thinking of exporting a section of music as wav, inputing it as raw data into say photo shop and making a few adjustments and then reloading the edited image back as an audio file and re-integrating it in my DAW.

 

there used to be a whole webpage devoted to which photoshop effects make the best audio effects, if i find it ill link it here

there's also that software which allows you to export the spectrograph of an audio file as an image, for use in photoshop etc, and can import it again to apply the effects losslessly (zole is that a word?), can't remember the name though argh!

that sounds a lot cooler than what i' was talking about, when you say it exports the spectrum i'm guessing it does it in such a way where upon reimport into a sound program it's mostly unchanged?

if you remember the name please drop that shit

edit: the one i was talking about inevitably ends up sound 'raw data' ish kind of like the sample at the top, still interesting results though. Some of those sounds in the top clip would make really good bass sounds pitched down. I've tried incorporating those types of sounds in my music over the years and i never really was happy with the results. So kudos to whoever made this for getting it to go viral

  On 3/11/2011 at 6:23 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 6:08 AM, modey said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 5:02 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/11/2011 at 4:29 AM, DerWaschbar said:

I was thinking of exporting a section of music as wav, inputing it as raw data into say photo shop and making a few adjustments and then reloading the edited image back as an audio file and re-integrating it in my DAW.

 

there used to be a whole webpage devoted to which photoshop effects make the best audio effects, if i find it ill link it here

there's also that software which allows you to export the spectrograph of an audio file as an image, for use in photoshop etc, and can import it again to apply the effects losslessly (zole is that a word?), can't remember the name though argh!

 

that sounds a lot cooler than what i' was talking about, when you say it exports the spectrum i'm guessing it does it in such a way where upon reimport into a sound program it's mostly unchanged?

 

if you remember the name please drop that shit

 

edit: the one i was talking about inevitably ends up sound 'raw data' ish kind of like the sample at the top, still interesting results though. Some of those sounds in the top clip would make really good bass sounds pitched down. I've tried incorporating those types of sounds in my music over the years and i never really was happy with the results.

I quite like the 'raw data' sounds, but I think the artifacts would have to sound as if they appear naturally or fit the aesthetic of the song. I've never really tried properly glitching material I suppose, except for a Realistic Rap Master synth I had as a kid, which had a flaw where it would circuit bend itself if the power jack on it became loose and was manipulated. On both counts it was unavoidable and in high school I always imagined it as its clitoris. It produced the craziest outside space rhythms you can imagine and generating this voice was absolutely an act of intimacy.

Now I've railroaded this, into some else. If you find that program please let me know! I would also still be interested in that website if it happens to come back to you.

the proper thing to do would be to write a program that generates special programs. these special programs, when compiled, come out as musical tunes.

it's better than just opening up random binaries in the hope for gold. my ears hurt just thinking about it

would anyone care to explain how this works??

you open an *.exe in a wave editor?? is that it? raw data?

audacity, import raw data, done

thanks

AMAZON

last bit from doom.exe

Jesus... is everyone in here like 12?

lol. I'm sure it's been done. I'm just surprised it's so musical.

aha! photosounder:

http://photosounder.com/

been enjoying this video from the website you posted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8MCAXhEsy4&feature=player_embedded

very reminiscent of metsynth aphex twin long equation song or windowlicker type of effects

this program can also export a sound as a picture too right? Iminterested in applying graphical effects in photoshop to a sound but otherwise unchanged