Music Played With Floppy Drives and Other CompSci Hardware
I don’t care that it’s Star Wars oriented – playing music with a floppy drive is awesome. Can we top that? Wouldn’t know how to measure it, but click through to hear the floppy drive, a singing scanner and a whole band played with a HDD.
William’s “Imperial March” With a Floppy Drive
[Floppy music (YouTube) via Hackzine]
Beethoven’s “Für Elise” With a Scanner
Vivaldi’s “Spring” With a Scanner
Van Halen’s “Jump” With a HDD
This last one is crazy. No idea how it’s pulled off (is it real?)
UPDATE – Dec. 2010. Regrettably, the following video has been pulled from YouTube by Time Warner on grounds of copyright infringement.
Enslaved by whatever law-induced social conduct superseding rationality—the action demonstrates lack of respect for innovation; for fans’ tribute to the music they love.
My thanks to the reader that brought this to my attention.
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Alano
Seriously? Time Warner got a Van Halen song that someone figured out how to play with a freaking hard drive pulled off Youtube? Shows how much into any kind of real art any corporation is when there’s no monetary gain involved…
Dec 7th, 2010
Hrafn Thorisson
@Alano – I hear that. Unbelievable. Thank you for notifying us. Instead of removing the defunct video I’ll be adding a notice to point out this sad turn of events.
Dec 7th, 2010
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