Feb 19 2010CodeOrgan Turns Any Website Into Music
CodeOrgan is a website where you can enter any website's URL, and, using a complicated algorithm, it turns the website's code into "music". Obviously, Geekologie is the most beautiful website you will ever hear, but you can try it with any other one you want. And the songs will change as the "body" content of the website changes. So you can listen to a different Geekologie song tomorrow. They are all magical! Like Link's ocarina songs, but this one won't summon your horse. Unless that's what you calling your girlfriend, in which case, she's probably cheating on you with someone nicer. LIKE YOUR ROOMMATE. Seriously, I saw them together.
Hit the jump for an explanation of how the program actually works and another link in case you missed the one in the text.
Thanks to Paulo, who makes beautiful music
Reader Comments
1. Arthur - February 19, 2010 3:27 PM
FUCK YEAH IM NOT FIRST
2. Terry - February 19, 2010 3:28 PM
first
3. Closet Nerd - February 19, 2010 3:30 PM
It sounds like the sweet gentle purr of a walrus..... just kidding, i have no idea what it sounds like.... probably sounds like an elephant stepping on his own penis...... just sayin
4. Chris - February 19, 2010 3:41 PM
Geekologie sounds kickass
5. headcheez - February 19, 2010 3:43 PM
i should code my organ.........
6. Isaac - February 19, 2010 3:46 PM
I used http://www.codeorgan.com/ in this website. I'm surprised the world didn't end.
7. CrispLettuce - February 19, 2010 3:46 PM
@1 and 2
Irony is delicious.
8. anon - February 19, 2010 4:00 PM
http://failblog.org/ is a failure... now that's ironic
9. Pat - February 19, 2010 4:08 PM
That's pretty cool, but my site's music is pretty lame. :(
10. Closet Nerd - February 19, 2010 4:09 PM
I'll turn your MOM into music.... when she plays my skin flute.... just sayin
11. Squidly - February 19, 2010 4:35 PM
Looks like geekologie's got a lame theme song.
12. skatin christ - February 19, 2010 4:48 PM
facebook sounds hellish as it is - google has backwards-mess within - only fox-news.com is bearable - must been sarah palin http://palingates.blogspot.com/
pot-holder ? wtf of a lame post
13. Cruisemissleking - February 19, 2010 5:58 PM
The Geekologie song is pretty awesome.
14. Joe - February 19, 2010 6:23 PM
Try the wiki page for the human genome. Very minor,slightly discordant. Very nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome
15. atheistgirl - February 19, 2010 6:34 PM
Neat.
Google is short and strangley beautiful.
16. soundofbread - February 19, 2010 6:45 PM
my websites song is definately the best, hear it foryourself
www.gayfaggotass.com/stickinittotheman/onefingersalute
17. Feisty Cadaver - February 19, 2010 7:31 PM
4chan's cool. icanhascheezburger's a mess. http://boortz.com is calypso-centric
18. Dishy D - February 19, 2010 11:56 PM
@15, what organ is that in your link?
19. Mindy - February 20, 2010 1:44 AM
Unsure if I like this yet. This post alone sounds like a weird ass bassy country twang thing. google.ca and .com both sound pretty though
20. ashton - February 20, 2010 2:32 AM
Yeah, it's interesting, but not a "Complicated algorithm"
The only complicated thing they are doing is
picking a
key,
a major or minor pentatonic scale,
a midi instrument,
one of a dozen drum loops,
and then picking random notes from that pentatonic scale.
Every one of these items is at some point pseudo-random. For example picking a key is as simple as tallying up the number of A, B, C, D, E, F, and G characters and picking the highest total. Given any webpage the total number of any given character is fairly arbitrary, though given the frequency of vowels over consonants the keys of E and A would be most likely used. Every other value is chosen by a similar fashion.
For any pseudo random number generator, you require what is referred to as a seed value. For a given seed value, the generator will always return the same sequence of random numbers. The trick is to provide a variety of seed values to produce a more random output. Usually the current time or some other changing value is used. In this case our randomness is simply provided by somewhat arbitrary calculations on a webpage.
So the novelty of having a webpage generate some random numbers is fun, and the implementation here isn't bad, but it's not insanely impressive. As far as random music goes (what musicians and other artists call aleatoric art), it's not groundbreaking, especially among the avant garde. The randomness is an interesting facet of the creation, but the art has to go beyond the chaos. This is a pleasant encounter with a slick interface, but it's about as sophisticated as most of the trivial examples we made in the first week of my electroacoustic music class using Max/MSP.
21. atheistgirl - February 20, 2010 8:02 AM
@ 19. I think it may be a liver.
22. atheistgirl - February 20, 2010 8:05 AM
@ 21. BORED NOW!
23. Marcus - February 20, 2010 8:59 AM
yawn.
24. best idea ever - February 20, 2010 9:40 AM
http://www.explosionsandboobs.com/, two seconds of awesome. now comes in an awesome two seconds of sound form too
25. D1337 - February 20, 2010 10:38 AM
TWENTYSIXTH!!!
26. jam - February 20, 2010 11:16 AM
its a fix, i put my website in twice and it came up with difrent songs
27. Dishy D - February 20, 2010 1:20 PM
@22, oh yeah you're right, it's liver.
I didn't recognize it at first without fava beans.
28. atheistgirl - February 20, 2010 2:59 PM
@ 28. I don't like to eat the liver. I just punish it!
Plus I prefer pie.
29. Dishy D - February 20, 2010 6:48 PM
I prefer pi.
We prefer pew.
We revile liver, ew!
Wet salad ala stew.
30. nerdherder - February 20, 2010 8:46 PM
@21 what a poopy-pants
so, which website produces the brown note?
31. MIke - February 20, 2010 11:39 PM
I used the two URLs for my website, and each URL gave a different song. It must just use the address, and not the actual site.
32. whatsyours - February 22, 2010 5:14 AM
http://www.lastfm.fr/home is pretty sweet
33. chris - February 22, 2010 12:31 PM
ohh god it's hideous... for the love of Pete please won't you stop it... it's drilling into my brain... stop... now...
34. Steve Thorne - February 23, 2010 3:56 AM
A neat but useless 'gadget" As a muso I create my sites own music.
Go hear Omarhakims intro to stings solo career,and the start of,The Bring on the night Tour.