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Big Ideas: Don't get any -- by James Houston

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Demoscene & retrocomputingMusic performance & songsEmbedded systems & DIY electronics

What it is

James Houston's entry to Radiohead's Nude remix contest, performing the 6/8, 63bpm song on obsolete hardware such as hard drives, a dot matrix printer, a scanner and a ZX Spectrum.

Why Hacker News recommends it

It is the canonical example HN brings up in threads about music hacks on floppy drives, printers and other junk hardware.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “this is probably the best example of a hack like this that I've seen.”

    Best example of a hardware music hack, Radiohead contest entry.

    torme, 2011-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack.”

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Topics: radiohead, dot matrix printer, hard drive music, zx spectrum, retro computing

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