For the initial time in 10 years, a Canadian arts duo tactics to execute a symphony using only archaic dot matrix printers. The piece, entitled "Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers #2," will be performed at the Mutek electronic tune carnival, held after that week in Montreal.

The couple inventor Madan and system performer Thomas, who equally goes during the name of the consumer, will direct the procedure of a multiplicity of speedy snapping dot matrix printers so that they create melodiously interesting hums.
In addition, video cameras will be seeded during the ranks of the printers, capturing their frenetic interior processes for a sequence of screens on the period.

Even though well-received a decade ago, the work has not been performed recently. Given the aging nature of the gear and the obsolescence of dot matrix printers in general, this could surely be one of the previous times it will be played.
Madan opening thought of the plan in the early on 1990s when his effort at a university computer lab, which then had a plenty of dot matrix printers.

Particularly throughout the end of the school term, when students were effectively printing out term papers, he considered over managing such machines "in such a way that the result would be more musical and more organized and somehow approaching tune," he supposed.