speedo

I am curious about getting some new sounds from the inner workings of my computer. Not so much the ubiquitous buffer glitches but some other strange artifacts - like when your sound card suddenly gets reclocked or there's FireWire or optical cable glitches. I'm having trouble figuring out what methods should I employ to pull these sounds from my laptop and I'm wondering if there's any max objects that could do the trick and make my computer sweat in a systematic predetermined way.

I am curious about getting some new sounds from the inner workings of my computer. Not so much the ubiquitous buffer glitches but some other strange artifacts - like when your sound card suddenly gets reclocked or there's FireWire or optical cable glitches. I'm having trouble figuring out what  methods should I employ to pull these sounds from my laptop and I'm wondering if there's any max objects that could do the trick and make my computer sweat in a systematic predetermined way. 

how-can-i-make-my-laptop-freak-out

# some (OSC or midi) controlled heating device/table

Wat you need:
# laptop
# some (OSC or midi) controlled heating device/table
and your done ... :)


You get some nice sounds by holding a phone pickup or guitar pickup over your laptop in different areas!

download (mac): www.hans-w-koch.net/download/more&more2.zip

download (win): www.hans-w-koch.net/download/more&more-win.zip

disconnect your laptop from external loudspeakers, set built-in loudspeakers to maximum

unzip and open the program: a black rectangle in the right upper corner should appear...

hit the spacebar, sit back and watch...the fun begins, when the computer really drops out...

caveat: before starting look up the emergency shortcut of your operating system, like cmd+alt+esc on mac and save all open files)

http://www.hans-w-koch.org/video/benchmark.html

by overloading your soundcard :-)
1.)
download (mac): www.hans-w-koch.net/download/more&more2.zip
download (win): www.hans-w-koch.net/download/more&more-win.zip
2.)
disconnect your laptop from external loudspeakers, set built-in loudspeakers to maximum
disable screensaver
3.)
unzip and open the program: a black rectangle in the right upper corner should appear...
4.)
hit the spacebar, sit back and watch...the fun begins, when the computer really drops out...

caveat: before starting look up the emergency shortcut of your operating system, like cmd+alt+esc on mac and save all open files)
for the cautious: http://www.hans-w-koch.org/video/benchmark.html

but much more fun, to do it yourself...
:-)
hans


only kidding all the above are excellent suggestions, and i would be curios to what sounds the laptop produces :), upload some working files when your done to see what it sounds like :)

@hans: i wanted to suggest your method but didn't remember your name :] (saw you doing it at steim)

see helpfile for the [adstatus] object. in particular, for a piece, i played with [adstatus cpulimit], in order to get an audio-intensive patch to have a slowly ever-increasing glitchy output(dropped samples), and with enough push to make my max patch crash at a somewhat predictable time(but i did this back in Max4, and not sure if Max5 and Max6 will produce the same results)... the glitch in sounds that happen when purposefully tweaking the various [adstatus] objects to make Max less efficient is also very digital in nature(might not be as interesting in resultant sound as the phone/guitar-pickup suggestion), but definitely something to try if you're working in Max.

How can I make my laptop freak out?