People have used machines to make music since the appearance of the machines themselves. There is plenty information about the evolution of music-making machines on the web, and even a whole community dedicated to it that looks actually as it was made around same time.

Watch James Houston’s masterpiece Big Ideas: Don’t get any – Radiohead cover to get a flavor of the topic.

In the article they don’t go into the subject in depth; but talk about music hardware oddities – and if you are old and geeky enough to be awakened by a nostalgia for noise of the old-school modem dialing base or sound of your first old good dot matrix printer you will understand what they are talking about.

For more: http://audiovisualacademy.com/blog/en/2011/10/03/short-history-printer-music/

Thanks to Paulo R.C. Barros