You can also have procedural music. Viznut (a legendary Finnish democoder) did some experiments to see how short you could code something that still sounds at least interesting: [this video] I also wrote piece of JavaScript that can play these programs in case you want to try create your own: [link]
Viznut's experiments with very short programs that make interesting music
The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel. Experimental music from very short C programs: [this video] Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): [link]
Experimental music from very short C programs by a demoscene author
I've seen these floating around on YouTube, so you might have some luck searching there (be aware of your volume settings when playing these!) - [link] - [this video] And a longer write-up on the background from the second video: - [link] - [link] - [link]
Example of music from tiny programs with a longer write-up
bemmu Hopefully you see this, unfortunately your comment is dead. Because I think your comment has value I will quote it here, please let me know if you'd like it removed. "You can also have procedural music. Viznut (a legendary Finnish democoder) did some experiments to see how short you could code something that still sounds at least interesting: [this video] I also wrote piece of JavaScript that can play these programs in case you want to try create your own: [link] "
Quoting a dead comment about Viznut's short-code music experiments
Reminds me somewhat of "Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs" [this video] in its compactness. Previously from [link] see also Ibniz, [link]
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