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I was reading about minimalist C code producing 8-bit music:

http://viznut.fi/demos/unix/bytebeat_formulas.txt
http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/some-deep-analysis-of-one-line-music.html
http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/

I wrote a little bash function to make it easier to play with the example snippets on that page.

compose() {
    echo "#include \"stdio.h\"" >music.c &&
    echo "int main(){for(int t=0;;t++)putchar($1);}" >>music.c &&
    gcc music.c -o music &&
    ./music | aplay
}

Usage examples (based on examples from viznut):

# sawtooth
compose 't'

# sierpinski harmony
compose 't&t>>8'

# "the 42 melody"
compose 't*(42&t>>10)'

# I think this one is my favourite...
compose 't*(t>>9|t>>13)&16'

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