--- title: Game of Thrones Theme Song Played on Computers description: The Floppotron is an electronic orchestra comprised of 64 floppy drives, eight hard drives, two scanners and a bunch of other techie stuff. canonical: https://time.com/4406090/game-of-thrones-song-computer-hard-drives/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-14T20:53:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:24.663Z og:title: The 'Game of Thrones' Theme Song Played on Computer Hard Drives Is Haunting og:description: Westeros calling og:url: https://time.com/4406090/game-of-thrones-song-computer-hard-drives/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 'Game of Thrones' Theme Song Played on Computer Hard Drives Is Haunting twitter:description: Westeros calling twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The _Game of Thrones_ Theme Song Played on Computer Hard Drives Is Haunting by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 14, 2016 8:53 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 14, 2016 8:53 PM UTC When hardware hacker [Paweł Zadrożniak](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCximsD7EJ38jzCNgfP%5FYTmA) fired up his Floppotron**—**an electronic orchestra comprised of 64 floppy drives, eight hard drives, two scanners and a bunch of other techie stuff— what did he want it to play? The [_Game of Thrones_ ](http://time.com/4362767/game-of-thrones-cersei-jaime-lannister-doom/?iid=sr-link7)theme song of course. The sophisticated yet retro machine works by transforming the motors in the electronic devices into music makers. “Every device with an electric motor is able to generate a sound,” he explains on [his website](http://silent.org.pl/home/2016/07/06/return-of-the-floppies/). “The sound generated by a motor depends on driving speed. The higher the frequency, the greater the pitch.” The result is a surprisingly haunting rendition of the show’s main theme, which immediately whisks you back to Westeros and eager for [the next season](http://time.com/4366905/game-of-thrones-cersei-lannister-rumor/?iid=sr-link1) to begin. If you prefer to leave the _Game of Thrones_ theme to its creator, Ramin Djawadi, the Floppotron can play Nirvana’s “[Smells Like Teen Spirit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuCQ3u2N%5FA)”, _Star Wars “_The Imperial March” and (why not?) the _Hawaii Five-O_ theme song, too. Listen [here](http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/watch-floppy-drives-hard-disks-cover-nirvana-smells-like-teen-spirit/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4406090/game-of-thrones-song-computer-hard-drives/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4406090/game-of-thrones-song-computer-hard-drives/"},"headline":"The Game of Thrones Theme Song Played on Computer Hard Drives Is Haunting","datePublished":"2016-07-14T20:53:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:24.663Z","description":"Westeros calling","url":"https://time.com/4406090/game-of-thrones-song-computer-hard-drives/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","Music","viral","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4406090/game-of-thrones-song-computer-hard-drives/","name":"The Game of Thrones Theme Song Played on Computer Hard Drives Is Haunting"}}]}] ```