What different sorting algorithms sound like

This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There are quite a few parameters that may drastically change resulting sound – I just chose parameteres that imo felt best. After making this video I found that someone already tried to audibilize sorting algorithms: www.pillowsopher.com – he mentions other older attempt: www.math.ucla.edu And someone in comments metions similar attempt on different aproches to Towers of Hanoi problem in 1982; there was also attempt on trying to hear minimax search in chess engine in 2009: www.krazydad.com . This is my first attempt on making algorithms audible. For some time I was wondering what would it sound like if cpu made different noises for different instructions. It all started while trying to play raw files (texts, images, programs…), then I heard few “raw” tracks on Alva Noto CD… and then I did one strange audio-visual simulation vimeo.com and then I tried to play out voltage potentials simulated by spiking neural network implementation – it worked out really cool so I wanted to try something with algorithms – thats how I got here. I know this work is not novel but I feel it isn’t explored enough. I see future uses of similar techniques in monitoring and debuging, teaching and gaining insight of more complicated algorithms, science (as an …
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