Website Code to Music Translator

I recently came across the Codeorgan which is a little application that turns websites into music. First, let's listen to what this blog sounds like.



Pretty sweet...gams. The fun thing is the song will change slightly if you reload the page or click the link again, but the notes don't, just the rhythm and instrumentation. For some compare & contrast here's the sound of Spaghetti Tree.

Basically, the Codeorgan scans the website's code (right-click, view page source), takes out non-musical letters aka notes (it only uses A-G), and somehow decides what kind of rhythm to plunk on down. I'd love to see something similar that uses information from digital photos, it would be interesting to see if the music reflected the mood of the photograph (dark, bright, frantic, still, etc.).

Give it a try! [via]

Tape-Loop Anglophilia!

Here's an awesome documentary about the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop--the guys responsible for all the sound effects on the BBC's television & radio shows. It's in six parts on youtube, collected for your convenience on Synthtopia, but you can watch the first part here:



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FrankenBassCelloViolaViolinStein

You may remember Diego Stocco from our Phonodendria post. He's back with a monster Frankenstein instrument he's dubbed the Experibass.



See more of Diego's work.

Kitchen Sounds & Health Advice from John Cage.

Pretty self-explanatory.



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Re: Brainorchestra

In this previous post I said "it would be one thing if brainwaves were being interpreted into sound." Well, apparently that's what's going on in this video (well, not necessarily brainwaves, "but electrical activity along the scalp produced by the firing of neurons within the brain"):

EEG sound sample from nik on Vimeo.

Human brainwaves from eeg data amplified to audible and converted into audible sound. The video is unrelated to the audio.

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Random Bouncy Process Music Generator

Stumbled upon this thing, the Grotrian Pianolina, a while back.


Throw the little cubes around to make notes, or select one of the programmed phrases and watch & listen as it degrades.

Christian Bale Loses it on the Director of Photography

Listen to this wonderfully recorded audio track of Christian Bale absolutely letting loose on the Director of Photography, Shane Hurlbut, during the shooting of Terminator: Salvation.

Bale Tantrum mp3

Via The Music of Sound.

I can't wait for the dance remix...and here it is!!!

Sound, Speech, Sine Waves, Perception, and our Brains.

This stuff is kind of hard to explain, but once you experience it, it will be very clear.

First, listen carefully to Sound Clip A. What does it sound like?
Now listen to Sound Clip B. Then, listen to clip A once again.

Crazy huh?

Here are a bunch more just like that, exact same procedure:
Clip A ------> Clip B
Clip A ------> Clip B
Clip A ------> Clip B
Clip A ------> Clip B

These are all from Matt Davis's article An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech.

Via the Music of Sound.

Take an audio journey with Sound Transit.

Sound Transit is a brilliant website that lets you "book" an audio journey across the world like you would airplane tickets. It takes field recordings from each "stopover" on the way and puts it into a single mp3 for your listening/downloading pleasure.

Take a listen to my trip from Boston to (circuitously) Annapurna base camp in Nepal. Stopovers in: Bankok, Tasmania, Berlin, New Zealand, and Pethburi.



via Califaudio.

Sound Illusions

These are fun and mess with your head/ears.

Via The Music of Sound.

Let Them Sing It For You

Let Them Sing It For You is cool little flash program that plays back the words you type into it as vocal samples from its huge library of pop songs.

From Califaudio via The Music of Sound.