Musical Dumps
After listening to “An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music”
and remembering that long time ago I was asked to convert stock charts into sound waves an idea came to me to convert memory dump files into WAV files by appending an appropriate header in front of them. So depending on imposed sampling frequency (Hz), quantization level (bits) and mono/stereo settings you can enjoy listening to dumps. Long time ago I wrote a component for hard-disk recording while working on my voice recognition projects and I’m going to reuse it now.
Forthcoming DumpPlayer will be released this weekend for free download so stay tuned.
If it goes well I promise to write a WinDbg extension to listen to a given memory range.
- Dmitry Vostokov -
October 19th, 2006 at 4:41 am
I’ve used musical debugging in the past (er, 1982), for an application which required the screen image not to be changed. By putting instructions to play short sounds of different pitches at various points in the program, I could tell where the program was in its execution, and hence get a clue as to why it didn’t work. Of course, it does help to have perfect pitch
Hugh
October 19th, 2006 at 5:16 am
While listening to a memory dump you might occasionally hear fragments from various mapped sound files or buffers. Voices from the past
Dmitry
October 19th, 2006 at 11:56 am
At the very least you are needing a portion of royalties off any future albums sales of this anthology!
August 26th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Dump2Wave converts crash dumps to sound files:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/10/22/musical-dumps-dump2wave/
Some sound samples:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/11/19/voices-from-process-space/
Listening from WinDbg:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/29/listening-to-computer-memory/