G8

Presented at Notacon 1 (2004), April 23, 2004, 1 p.m. (60 minutes).

The "music" of G8 is likely familiar to anyone who's played with /dev/dsp or /dev/audio. The first album, "Floating Point" was created entirely by recording the sounds produced by catting executables to the audio device under Linux (or, the case of one track, a sega genesis ROM.) The second album, "Infinite Monkeys" was created by faking wav headers up and putting them in front of various executables. The general effect is the same, but it allows for varying bit rates and stereo (and is, I'm told, slightly less painful to listen to.) The albums are concept pieces, in that their purpose is to illustrate the patterns that are present inside of programs, rather than being really fun to listen to.

Presenters:

• Tanner "Koz" Beck - http://acm.uiowa.edu/~tbeck/PFE/index.html
  Tanner Beck has been photographing things since he was a wee lad. He's been doing his own darkroom work since 1998. Aside from the obvious, he's made short videos, entirely digital pieces, album art, painful music and barely presentable web sites. He's also worked for a variety of companies as a programmer and NOC-Monkey. Tanner has plenty of free time and is bored easily, which may explain why he's flailing about in academia, studying photography and Asian languages instead of just finishing his computer science degree.

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