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FLOPPY DISK HEAVEN — Floppy disks may have been outpaced technologically, but they can still serve a music purpose, apparently.
It seems there is a movement on the Internet of people who are reusing floppy disk drives as a means of making music. YouTuber Arganath uses his collection of drives to grind out the melody of Nirvana’s classic song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in this video.
At first, this case of drives looks like something the IT department would have in a bottom drawer somewhere — that “just in case” collection of outdated hardware that may one day be crucial to retrieving a document. But soon, a grungy melody emerges from the drives’ moving parts.
It seems this floppy drive music hobbyist really took Kurt Cobain’s demand, “Here we are. Entertain us” seriously, because this is strangely captivating and really impressive.
