WAVEing at Repetitive Repetitive Repetitive Music - Questions

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An Emacs implementation generates sound by building a WAVE generation library inside Emacs, layering notes with semitone offsets so a top layer maps root plus intervals, and shelling out to play WAV files; playback during the demo fails because microphone/webcam conflicts prevent live sound. There are no dependencies beyond a WAV player, sample chopping can produce pre-recorded-note WAVs, and the code can output to MIDI with modest changes. Source and notes live at zck.org/emacsconf2020.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:11Musical Background
3. 3:55Pre-Recorded Sounds
4. 4:43What Were some of the Challenges with Writing a Special Mode for Emacs

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