Morse the New Year

x86 machine code (.COM file): 121 120 113 109 bytes

Hexdump:

00000000  b4 3e bb 01 00 cd 21 b4  3c 31 c9 ba 3e 01 cd 21  |.>....!.<1..>..!|
00000010  4a b4 09 cd 21 be 56 01  8a 0c 46 e8 0c 00 b1 32  |J...!.V...F....2|
00000020  e8 07 00 81 fe 6d 01 75  ef c3 88 cb c0 e3 07 c1  |.....m.u........|
00000030  e1 04 30 d2 b4 02 00 da  cd 21 e2 fa c3 2e 73 6e  |..0......!....sn|
00000040  64 00 00 00 18 ff ff ff  ff 00 00 00 02 00 00 10  |d...............|
00000050  00 00 00 00 01 24 33 33  99 99 99 66 99 99 99 99  |.....$33...f....|
00000060  99 66 33 99 99 99 99 66  33 33 33 33 33           |.f3....f33333|
0000006d

Can be easily run under DosBox; the output is a .SND file named SND. Here is a FLAC version of its output (and here the .COM file).

Commented assembly:

    org 100h

start:
    ; close stdout
    mov ah,3eh
    mov bx,1
    int 21h
    ; open snd
    mov ah,3ch
    xor cx,cx
    mov dx,filename
    int 21h
    ; write the header
    ; we used the `snd` part of the header as file name, back off one byte
    dec dx
    mov ah,9h
    int 21h
    mov si,data
.l:
    ; data read cycle
    ; read the current byte in cl (zero-extending to 16-bit)
    ; notice that ch is already zero (at the first iteration it's 0 from the
    ; int 21h/3ch, then we are coming from gen, which leaves cx to zero)
    mov cl,[si]
    ; move to next byte
    inc si
    ; generate the tone
    call gen
    ; generate the pause
    mov cl,50
    call gen
    ; repeat until we reach the end of data
    cmp si,eof
    jne .l
    ; quit
    ret

gen:
    ; generate a sawtooth wave at sampling frequency/2 Hz
    ; receives length (in samples>>4) in cx, with lowest bit indicating if
    ; it has to write a wave or a pause
    mov bl,cl
    ; shift the rightmost bit all the way to the left; this kills the
    ; unrelated data and puts a 128 in bl (if cx & 1 != 0)
    shl bl,7
    ; rescale the samples number
    shl cx,4
    ; zero the starting signal
    xor dl,dl
    ; prepare the stuff for int 21h
    mov ah,2h
.l:
    ; increment the signal
    add dl,bl
    ; write it
    int 21h
    ; decrement iteration count and loop
    loop .l
    ret

    ; .SND file header (4096 samples, mono, PCM)
header:
    db "."
    ; we also use "snd" as the file name
filename:
    db "snd",0,0,0,24,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0,0,0,2,0,0,0x10,0,0,0,0,1
    ; terminator for int 21h/ah=9h
    db '$'
data:
    ; generated by gendata.py
    incbin "data.dat"
eof:

The data.dat included above is an easy-to-use representation of the morse string (lower bit: sound on/sound off, upper 7 bits: sound length in samples >> 4) generated by a Python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python2
import sys

# source string
s = "..--- ----- .---- ....."
# samples
sr = 4096
conv =  {
            '.': 1 | (((sr/5) >> 4) & ~1),    # dot:   1/5 second, dI/dt=1
            '-': 1 | (((sr/5*3) >> 4) & ~1),  # line:  3/5 second, dI/dt=1
            ' ':     ((sr/5*2) >> 4) & ~1     # space: 2/5 second (+1/5 from the always-present pause), dI/dt=0 (silent)
        }
sys.stdout.write(''.join(chr(conv[a]) for a in s))

Mathematica - 130

r = Riffle;
s = SoundNote;
Export["m.mid", 
 Sound@
   r[Flatten@
     r[
       s[0,.4(Boole@#+.5)]&/@Array[#>4&,5,5-#]&/@{2,0,1,5},
       (b=None~s~#&)@.6
     ],[email protected]
   ]
]

Play online

Python, 155

Uses the python built-in wave module.

import wave
n=wave.open(*"nw")
k=17837
n.setparams((2,2,k,0,"NONE",0))
h=k*1314709609
while h:[n.writeframes(`i%9`)for i in[0]*(2-h%2)*k+range(h%4*k)];h/=4

Writes to a file called n.

Thanks Sp3000 for suggestion on using list comprehension for loop (this helped remove a bit of indentation).

Listen to it:

https://soundcloud.com/bitpwner/morse-the-new-year-2015

Here is a link to SoundCloud if the embedded player doesn't work for you.

Commented code:

import wave
n=wave.open("n.wav","w")         # Open a wav file for writing
k=44100                            
n.setparams((2,2,k,0,"NONE","")) # Sets the minimal params for the wav file
w=n.writeframes
h=23450475295733                 # Contains base-4 morse: '.'=1, '-'=3, ' '=0
while h:
    for i in range(h%2*k):w(h%4*chr(i%99)) # Writes saw-tooth signal using i%99
    w((2-h%2)*k*" ")                       # Writes the pauses
    h/=4