Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
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Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#2This seems very cool but the only video is a really slow paced 30-minute screencast.
Is there a short demo?
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#3This seems very cool but the only video is a really slow paced 30-minute screencast. Is there a short demo?
https://youtu.be/zCbS0qmLxj8?t=204
You could have just waited 3 minutes :)
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#4I have a soft spot for ANSI art and secretly hope it has a reason to come back in a fresh way like pixel art has. The 1x2 blocks are just so iconic.
I fooled around making some tools to do stuff like parse a GIF of an ANSI back to ANSI and devolve a photo to (crummy) ANSI art the way some scripts do with ASCII, but it is pretty remedial compared to the code that exists for futzing with pixel art.
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#5Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#6Back in the day, there was an extension to ANSI control codes called ANSI Music[1]. It borrowed the musical notation from IBM-BASIC's (and GW-BASIC) 'PLAY' statement. The standalone ANSIPLAY would play them back, or with the Telimate terminal emulator it'd play in the background while you used a BBS.
The last version of ANSIPLAY[2] was 2.1 I believe.
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#7I have a soft spot for ANSI art and secretly hope it has a reason to come back in a fresh way like pixel art has. The 1x2 blocks are just so iconic. I fooled around making some tools to do stuff like parse a GIF of an ANSI back to ANSI and devolve a photo to (crummy) ANSI art the way some scripts do with ASCII, but it is pretty remedial compared to the code that exists for futzing with pixel art.
I suspect that you will appreciate rexpaint (and also the game it was created for, Cogmind):
https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/
If you are a fan of this aesthetic and would like to visit it in audio form, it’s more “Lofi inspired” but it checks all the right boxes for me; I also recommend checking out SunVox:
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#8"Which decade was best, and why was it the 80s"
Birth of Hip-Hop. New Wave. Electronic. Blondie. Michael Jackson's "Thriller", which echoes to this day in Justin Bieber's "Peaches". Metallica in their prime. Prince & the Revolution. Faith No More's Epic to close things out. And, of course, Rick Astley ;)
Recently heard Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" for the first time in years and couldn't help but think it sounds better with age, better than anything today. Then a Bauhaus cover of Brian Eno's "Third Uncle" came on ...
Bauhaus - Third Uncle (1982)
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#9Back in the day, there was an extension to ANSI control codes called ANSI Music[1]. It borrowed the musical notation from IBM-BASIC's (and GW-BASIC) 'PLAY' statement. The standalone ANSIPLAY would play them back, or with the Telimate terminal emulator it'd play in the background while you used a BBS. The last version of ANSIPLAY[2] was 2.1 I believe. [1] http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/ [2] https://bbs.retrop…
Yes! TheDraw 4.63 allowed you to include ANSI music control sequences in your animations.
Re: Show HN: Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup
#10Cool project. I really enjoyed the screencast- you sold me on giving it a whirl.