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Do any melodic/rhythmic transmission protocols exist?



If you count 10MHz and up as rhythmic then yes! But kidding aside it would be really nice to have a musically encoded version of TCP/IP that sounds nice to the ear.

You could start by picking a major key and then dividing up all bytes to be transmitted into groups of three bits (have fun with the shifting...), that way all 8 tones get to be played, and since it will be monotone it should not sound too bad. Major points if you can do this with chords that sound harmonious.


Combining Zipf distribution, Levenshtein distance, and chords/scales -- might lead to something accommodating with aesthetic qualities.


Olivia sounds kind of nice. See the audio samples on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_MFSK


Beautiful. That sounds like alien birdsong.




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