Younnat used this dot matrix printer to provide the rhythm track to his marimba and synthesizer etude. Soothing.
Sue Harding made music with dot matrix that is a bit more glitchy and alien.
Canadian art duo [The User] made an entire album titled "Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers" by programming large series of text files to play 14 different printers. Dig those track names. (You can grab this on eMusic.)
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Please do not forget Man or Astro-Man?'s "Simple Text File" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YDR62I/ref=dm_dp_trk11 Not quite as fancy as a 14 printer symphony but still fun.
don't forget "A Simple Text File" by Man Or Astro-Man?: http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=228
Sue Harding has 2 (or 3) Amiga 2000's and one Amiga 500. Major Geek cred! (As if making dot-matrix printer music NEEDS more geek cred!)
(If the computer that is not in the row of 3 is a 3rd A2000, it's got the floppy disk drive in a weird spot; not impossible or even uncommon)
I have the CD of the album by [The User]. It's awesome.
Coool!
Reminds me of the 'Failing hard drive sounds':
http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
You open two or three of these and you got cool music.
Yeah, [The User] is pretty fantastic. The production value of their recordings are top notch.
In college (in the mid '70s) I remember people playing music with a massive IBM line printer. The kind with all possible characters cast on a 2 foot long metal rod. There were 132 of these rods all moving up and down appropriately to print a full line at a time.
Would have made a nice bass section along with the dot matrix printers.
JT Montreal, good catch! I think the last computer might be an Amiga 3000. The position of the floppy drive is just about right and it looks shorter than a 2000.
(sigh) I miss my Amiga 3000! Well, I don't miss the ZIP chip memory that was incredibly unreliable.. hmm. [goes and boots up an emulator] I don't really miss it.
JT Montreal, good catch! I think the last computer might be an Amiga 3000. The position of the floppy drive is just about right and it looks shorter than a 2000.
(sigh) I miss my Amiga 3000! Well, I don't miss the ZIP chip memory that was incredibly unreliable.. hmm. [goes and boots up an emulator] I don't really miss it.