cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34698756
Didn't realize this was actually a John Cage composition.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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An old computer trick / prank / "fun" thing to do was piping random things to
/dev/audio, or finding whatever program was available that could take any old file and not complain while translating it to audio by some means or another.On my distro there are at least three of these programs installed by default:
aplay,paplayandpw-play.Some or all of these will complain if the file or stream they're given isn't a recognisable audio file, in which case, there's a
--rawor similar flag where it'll just shrug and blast whatever through the sound system. If you're creative, you can set different sample rates and hear it at different speeds.VLC is just a really fancy way of doing the same thing.
For even more "fun", try opening a file in Audacity / Tenacity, which will default to raw mode if it can't tell what a file is, and you get to see the waveform and so on. Just take care not to modify and save over an important file with that.
Well, unless that file (though, work with copies of course!!) is a .bmp image. Then try applying some "audio" affects to sections or the whole thing and see what it does to the image and export it, can get some neat stuff.
Praise "Bob" (and Databending).
Oh man... I've not done this for so long. Fun nostalgia bump. :) I think I even did that for a few samples in tracks I released... yonks ago.
Good call. :)