Programming

Bytebeat – Return of the One-Line Music Craze

Bytebeat – Return of the One-Line Music Craze We recently stumbled upon a music style that emerged a couple of years ago, Bytebeat, and noticed it was on the rise again. Ville-Matias Heikkila (aka Viznut) is the pioneer of the crazy style with some friends of his, they were experimenting with a programming language and discovered single-lines of code they had written could output wild audio patterns. More experimentation lead to the discovery of more musical code outputs and thus Bytebeat was born.   su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg&t=133s” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced Bytebeat is a quirky look into the world of computer music and the art of accidental discovery. Its origins were happened upon, “I came up with a 16-byte VIC-20 program whose musical output totally blew my mind” Viznut said about the code. Inspired by his discovery Viznut looked more into the subject and someone else realized the ability the add percussion and …