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Synth one-liner
In 2011 Viznut posted a blog post called “Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code – how and why?” . He described a way to generate algorithmic 8-bit synth compositions in a single line of C. For example,
main(t){for(t=0;;t++)putchar(t*(((t>>12)|(t>>8))&(63&(t>>4))));}
You’d compile that program and pipe it to your soundcard, and it would play an ever-evolving piece of noise music.
This is so fucking cool. That little equation
t*(((t>>12)|(t>>8))&(63&(t>>4)))
will tweak the bits of the value of the current time step as a kind of chaos process that actually sounds great!
I wanted to see if I could do that automatically.
Automatic one-liners
Using CodeLlama 7B I make a prompt with a bunch of one-liners from IRC .
I then use Llama.cpp’s grammar decoder to constrain the output to valid one-liners. Those one-liners are then evaluated and converted to audio.
Cover image by https://replicate.com/yash-banka/moon
