Music from /dev/urandom on Mac OSX

urandom_music.sh

# I really enjoyed "Bash One Liner - Compose Music From Entropy in /dev/urandom"
# From http://blog.robertelder.org/bash-one-liner-compose-music/
#
# This is a collection of one liners that work on Mac OSX

# You need sox
brew install sox

# Major scale
cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | sox -v 0.25 -traw -r16000 -b32 -e signed-integer - -tcoreaudio

# Minor scale
cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,3,5,7,8,10,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | sox -v 0.25 -traw -r16000 -b32 -e signed-integer - -tcoreaudio

# Pentatonic 
cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,3,5,6,7,10,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | sox -v 0.25 -traw -r16000 -b32 -e signed-integer - -tcoreaudio

# Ryukyu (Okinawa) Japanese music scale
cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | sox -v 0.25 -traw -r16000 -b32 -e signed-integer - -tcoreaudio