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Listening to a PDP-7 with an AM radio isn't exactly ByteBeat (since you're technically only allowed one line of code), but it sure sounds a lot like it:

Meet Bytebeat: A Brand New Electronic Music Genre

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkzakx/meet-bytebeat-a-br...

>Become a slave to the algorhythm.

>Heard about the latest computer music genre sweeping the internet? It’s called “bytebeat” and if this comes as news to you, don’t despair, the thing’s only about five months old, so you’re still ahead of the curve. Bytebeat is algorithmic music created from one line of code and was discovered/invented while Finnish low-tech artist and programmer Ville-Matias Heikkila (aka Viznut) and his friends were experimenting with the computer programming language C code and creating one line formulas that could produce an audio output (see below).

Bytebeat: Music from very short programs - the 3rd iteration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRPUv8V22o

Bytebeat - Music from math formulas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25aVWtNcAm0



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