Crazy Japanese person encodes graphics into MIDI data, OMFG ensues

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Retro game medley


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Cheetahmen


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Super Mario Bros.


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Final Fantasy IV


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Kirby


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Chrono Trigger


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[Howard Alan Treesong]

the first video is nutty, mostly because he's so absolutely FUCKING SHOWING OFF from 45 seconds on. how do you FREESTYLE the KONAMI CODE

[drohne]

jesus -- at first it's kinda cool, but then you realize that HE'S NOT CHEATING THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION BUT RATHER EXPLOITING THE FACT THAT ASCENTS, DESCENTS, AND SYMMETRIES CAN SOUND HARMONIOUS and your brain explodes

[Beezy]

Goddamn. Here's another one:

Mega Man - 2 Dr. Wily Stage 1


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[MrAngryFace]

Impressive!

[Yeti]

These are great. It's interesting to see what a song looks like.

[Oblivion]

Sounds neato potato, but can someone explain to the rest of us dumbs what exactly is going on?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Sounds neato potato, but can someone explain to the rest of us dumbs what exactly is going on?

jesus -- at first it's kinda cool, but then you realize that HE'S NOT CHEATING THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION BUT RATHER EXPLOITING THE FACT THAT ASCENTS, DESCENTS, AND SYMMETRIES CAN SOUND HARMONIOUS and your brain explodes

[Joe Molotov]

The Gradius part with the Konami Code made me asplode in pants.

[Yeti]

Sounds neato potato, but can someone explain to the rest of us dumbs what exactly is going on?

Basically he made each midi into a visual representation. Each dot/symbol represents a note/bleepblorp/whatever. Lower notes are lower sounding, blah blah blah.