Dot Matrix Music (Sue Harding)

[77RamonesCramps]

Absolutely, positively, AWESOME! Great art there, Sue!

[chehgf]

creepy music

[b0rken]

really enjoyed this. thanks for posting. 

[QwAdr0x256]

some of bigger companies today are still using this eeeeeeeee printer. i dont understand #LOL

[Caleb5617]

i think my ear just had a heart attack...

[pincheSoetoro]

wow!! awesome,very impressive sue, please don´t get better equipment; you´re doing a great job.very artistic….

[doelsuparman]

Anybody heard DAD Reconstrucdead?

[localhbci]

Props on the A3000 and the dual A2000s, Workbench 1.3 ftw

[9334890]

I love it Sue! Mike A

[antiedman]

hippie gone too far should have worked with a sound engineer

[suedotmatrix]

@antiedman Actually I did work with a (very professional) sound engineer, who had previously worked for 6 years at the Sydney Opera House...

[stusvend]

She obviously has an extremely strong sense of cadence. I too hear rhythms and music in almost everything.

[samsamsonsoy]

Brilliant ! Their is a whole bunch there. A whole new genre waiting to be explored.

[defaultxr]

Wow, this is beautiful. I always loved that high pitch beepy sound that printers make. I'm not being sarcastic.

[suedotmatrix]

for anyone who wants, there are some tracks to download on my myspace.

(no more printer music... all equipment destroyed when my house burned down a couple of years ago. but i wouldn't mind another dotmatrix printer - they keep on working when the ribbon needs replacing, unlike my #* inkjet which declines to print at all unless it has all colours of ink.)

[ZXRulezzz]

> all equipment destroyed when my house burned down a couple of years ago.

My apologizes =(

Especially Amigas - they are expensive now, because they are vintage machines...

I own my old Epson LX-300, together with HP LaserJet 6L... I use LX-300 to print anything, LaserJet is just for making homebrew printed circuit boards...

Sorry for my bad english =)

[cobbles62]

Nope. Sorry. To me this is a demonstration of technique gone gaga. Then again, to me all art is based on inventions of others and used in a way as to specifically exlude any usefulness.

Especially the recitle with all those serous looking faces looks hilarious to me. As if they were watching something new and important happening.

But hey, as long as they have fun....

Maybe look at "Mario Theme played on Stepper Motors with an Arduino". This guy will not claim usefuless though.

[movieapple]

Life is just a moment, dig it champion! I want to print everything I record!

[ZXRulezzz]

She owns so much Commodore Amigas! She's damn rich =)

At least one of the printers in the video is Epson FX-1170

[Polybun]

@ZXRulezzz not really. They are all low end ones with no accelerator. Chances are by the time she gets done with one the 8520's are blown.

[Jiariles86]

Profs at my uni would love something like this xD

[HowieFeelin]

Really pretty silly. She should buy a synth with sampling capability and make things easier on herself -- no more paper jams, for starters.

[artifactingreality]

You can make a synthesizer sound like almost anything.

Even if she had managed to make this exact same song only using a synth, I think it would lose a lot of it's charm and originality. Would anyone watch this video then - just because it 'sounds like' a printer?

I'm all for messing around with synths mind you but I wouldn't want to see every instrument replaced by them. We'd end up with the crappy manufactured pop music on the radio.

[Sirbeerus]

@HowieFeelin

Congratulations, you've completely missed the point. One may as well suggest that painters should switch to photography.

[artifactingreality]

I genuinely want a CD of this stuff.

[theodark]

I want a CD too!!! :)

[kaiyoshi2243]

wow, pretty cool. I didn't think I'd find this on youtube. Very nicely done.

[cm2dude]

This is beautiful.

[erick103]

Crazy woman is crazy

[MrYoshiDan]

She's from Wagga, what do you expect? lol

[Cronjob]

I love the nostalgic sound of a dot matrix printer doing its thing, but I can't hear any sort of musical pattern out of this mess whatsoever.

[kkiloveyogurt]

can she not afford a chair...maybe she should stop buying printers and buy a chair

[swcu]

I like your comment!

[courtlandhomes]

I love it! My dog not so much.

[icon0x1]

gives me chills, i just bought an old panasonic, LOVE ITS SOUND

[otacon451]

hah what a milf

[alphamone]

I always loved the sound that my ribbon based printer made.

[rallupae]

A student or pioneer of the music by The User called "Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers: No 1 & 2 - hailing from Quebec, Canada?

[skudave]

Completely hypnotic.

[Havayosunu]

nice original art, kudos! you both make music and paintings! =D

[tonvibration]

real great art!!

I wonder a little what time is was made - looks like the 80s, don´t?

[evilpaul]

2003

[Mazza4Azza]

LMAO, its 2003 :P lmao, did you think if the fashion and the computer? :D

[Riskteven]

@tonvibration Computers from the 80's in at least one of the scene 0:37

[kazakov52]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!

[afkhajiit]

jesus christ, that's beautiful

[gamorbab]

Those are Amigas in there, aren't they?

[majcherek128]

they sure are...

[stevethepocket]

It's like a player piano that makes its own roll as it plays! Ha...

[mewlotov]

wow... luvvy :-)

[altomaltes]

I really enjoy the opening piece.

[nevyn]

If she had just learnen programming instead, she could've told the printer exactly what pitch and tempo and anything she wanted... Not that this isn't cool, 'tho :)

[LockHoodlum]

Technically speaking, she'd develop her own 'programming' language, in order to control the velocity... it is these graphical patterns which could be considered as being a 'program'... not as much of logic in there as you would have expected as in any other programming language's syntax, but still.

And heck, it looks a lot better than code written in ASM/C/Perl/Ruby/Fortran or whatever... :)

[Polybun]

@nevyn women just don't think that way.  Which is why they always follow behind men.

[MrMetK]

@Polybun Do you know why there are so many differences between women and men nowadays? Because of people like you :).

[Polybun]

@MrMetK oh yes I see, it's a man's fault. I guess in a way it is. We won't accept mediocrity from other men, but we allow it out of women. Men like me huh? So it's all the gay man's fault then?

[MrMetK]

@Polybun I didnt say men nor women, I said people and I don't think I mentioned anything about mediocrity.

Would you like to rephrase your post in a more coherent manner, please? I can't make sense out of it. At all.

[LockHoodlum]

Whaaaa.... I wouldn't meeting her in person. What a genius! Really cool stuff...

[LockHoodlum]

what I meant to say is: "I wouldn't MIND meeting her in person".

lol

[KairuHakubi]

Music and graphic art at the same time :D

[Lukav29]

respect...

[the486kid]

she is so hard core. shockingly cool

[jameswalker213]

HAHAHAH WAGGA WAGGA!

[9334890]

hi sue: this is truly original, imaginative and compelling art!

[kylep2]

@9334890 Yes, the user named "evilpaul" is Sue Harding... reading skills ftw...

[suedotmatrix]

@kylep2 No, "suedotmatrix" is Sue Harding. ( I don't know the identity of "evilpaul".)

[kylep2]

@suedotmatrix I was being sarcastic, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't name your youtube account "Paul" :)

[isometricmultimedia]

absolutely amazing

[glitchplayer1]

Exellent work! Thank you for making it.

[scumfrick]

trippy

[makkunaima]

Will you marry me??!?

[andriolo]

The User: http://www.theuser.org/dotmatr­ix/en/intro.html

[maskscraper]

stunning!!!!!!!!