Monitor your Linux computer with machine-generated music

Another cool IBM article, also via rootprompt.org, this one of particularly cool implications: “Monitor your Linux computer with machine-generated music”

Use Perl and FluidSynth to create a real-time musical composition of your system status. Learn how to integrate various system monitoring data into a harmony-producing, MIDI-controlled audio synthesis. Explore audible information methods and configurations to help you monitor and manage your computing environment.

I’m reminded of the old SimEarth feature that would play musical tones based on various status reports, whether positive or negative. I am enamored of the idea of alternative monitoring techniques.