What different sorting algorithms sound like

This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mix) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There are quite a few parameters that may drastically change resulting sound - I just chose parameteres that imo felt best. After making this video I found that someone already tried to audibilize sorting algorithms: - he mentions other older attempt: ~rcompton/musical_sorting_algorithms/ And someone in comments metions similar attempt on different aproches to Towers of Hanoi problem in 1982; there was also attempt on trying to hear minimax search in chess engine in 2009: . This is my first attempt on making algorithms audible. For some time I was wondering what would it sound like if cpu made different noises for different instr
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