Music. The code inside. Razor 1911, Farbrausch ...

Why do some music always play in cracks?
A: The music is ugly, and these quacks indicate that the action is against the law.
B: Every crack is a creation, it must be beautiful ...
(from online forum)
Yes, it was all: rare beautiful compositions, trojans, languid sighs of a young lady when generating a key for mIRC (I still have this crack). Winamp was silent, but the speakers worked, as often happens at night. A lot of things can be sewn into a tiny program.
If you want to be heard, there is another way (no, not newfangled podcasts). This is the creation of a special program “chipdisk” (from the English. Shipdisk ) - collections of tracker music. Russian equivalent we will have "music box" - this is the word reflects the essence of this kind of programs. All in itself: sound, software code that is responsible for its reproduction, and, as a distinguishing feature, is a passion for extremely small file sizes . What is not a music box?

Modern left-handers: Razor 1911, Farbrausch etc.

Who does these things? Quite a large number of different hacker (in the good sense of the word) groups. The first acquaintance should start with the Razor 1911 and Farbrausch . There are many others, but today we are talking about these bright representatives of the demoscene .

Music boxes on the shelf

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Razor 1911

The history of this group begins in Austin Sevag’s homeland, Norway.
The founders of the Razor 1911 group were:

• Doctor No;
• Insane TTM;
• Sector9.

Initially, the group was called Razor 2992 and was engaged in hacking software running on the Commodore 64 platform. Soon they changed 2992 to 1911: the number 1911 in hexadecimal is 0x777.

Whispers. Perhaps the brightest work of Razor 1911 is the wonderful music box “ Whispers ”. The seasons are almost classic.


It was first “discovered” in November 2002.
What is it remarkable? It's hard to say without missing anything. First of all, these are the compositions themselves, to match the seasons: sad autumn, majestic winter, bright spring and restless summer. You forget that this is " tracker " music .
Visual design is inseparable from melodies. Flying butterflies, leaves ... Perfectly maintained window style at another time of the year.

Read the words on the screen saver. I think then it will become clear that this is not just a beautiful hand-made article, but something more. Yes, some write about their feelings on the walls or on the bridges ... Well, by clicking in the right place ( in the autumn little man ), you see what was not meant for you ...


Here is such a sad postcard.
But Sleepless , promised in the final credits, we will not wait .
Chipdisk 4 (2004) Razor 1911. Why is it the fourth? And because I like to look at a cute white animal . The music here is completely different from Whispers. Welcome to the world of old consoles and eight-bit sound .

Razor 1911 still has a lot of good work, but these two I like the most. All the works of this group can be viewed at http://pouet.net/ or their website: http://razor1911.com/ .

Farbrausch

Well, now let's go to Germany. They make completely different in content and technology, but congenial music boxes.
Translated from German, the name of the group Farbrausch means “color poisoning” . They gained fame after the release of the 64-kilobyte intro, which won first place at The Party 2000 . It was fr-08 .the .product , and he really made the viewers remember that they still know how to be surprised .

This music box was revolutionary: procedural texturing techniques (modeling, procedural textures ), modeling and animation were used. Thanks to a number of tricks, they managed to create an eleven-minute masterpiece , which otherwise would have required about two gigabytes of memory to store the data used.
Brullwurfel. This music box is close in style to the Razor 1911 chipdisks . Brullwurfel has recorded music themes from the rest of the Farbrausch products. Yes, you can find kb recordings (one of the Farbrausch team members) and in mp3, but it so happened that this music is inseparable from the player. This work is in itself. You can put on a floppy disk and bring a friend .


A characteristic feature of Farbrausch is extreme optimization of the program code (up to a symbolic 64 Kb). Create an empty Word document and see how long it takes (about 100 KB, is it?). If you save the tracks from Brullwurfel to WAV, then the total size of the sound will be about 560 MB.
Fr-030. The last casket on our shelf is fr-030 . I don't intentionally show the image. Yes, for the first time you won’t think that this is the same 64 kilobyte code ...
In this box they also sing . The voice, like the image, is synthesized. Watch and repeat like a mantra: procedural texturing .

Many other amazing Farbrausch works can be downloaded from their website . The most shocking in the technical sense of the work can be downloaded from the site http://www.theprodukkt.com/ . Attention! To view works with a number greater than 030, you will need a very, very powerful machine ( shaders version 3 , etc.).

Conclusion

Here, perhaps, that's all. The shelf is occupied by music boxes. Those who remember the eight-bit sound of old consoles and computers, can remember how it was.
If there is something else similar, I will always be happy to see a link to work that can also capture and enchant.
Probably, everyone who programs, at least once wrote a similar music box in his life. It does not matter for whom, in honor of what day or holiday. The only important thing is that on the right day the soulless machine ran the program code and pleasantly surprised the dear person . And this is the most important thing.