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Ahh baby, play my favorite website again.

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

It’s our song, honey. You know the one we built our relationship on, EHarmony.com. So,… so, melodious.

You know how this works, a friend sends me something, I play around and poof something else. Well here is that something else. the CodeOrgan. Say What?

Yes, the CodeOrgan analyses the “Body” content of your web page and translates that content into music. For those of you who want to know more, this is copied directly from the about page on CodeOrgan.com.

CodeOrgan

THE CODEORGAN ANALYSES THE *BODY* CONTENT OF ANY WEB PAGE AND TRANSLATES THAT CONTENT INTO MUSIC. THE CODEORGAN USES A COMPLEX ALGORITHM TO DEFINE THE KEY, SYNTH STYLE AND DRUM PATTERN MOST APPROPRIATE TO THE PAGE CONTENT.
FIRSTLY, THE CODEORGAN SCANS THE PAGE CONTENTS AND REMOVES ALL
CHARACTERS NOT FOUND IN THE MUSICAL SCALE (A TO G), AND THEN ANALYSES THE REMAINING CHARACTERS TO FIND THE MOST COMMONLY USED ‘NOTE’. IF THIS IS AN EVEN NUMBER THE PAGE IS TRANSLATED IN TO THE MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE OF THAT PARTICULAR NOTE, IT BECOMES MINOR IF THERE IS AN UNEVEN NUMBER.
SECONDLY, THE CODEORGAN DEFINES WHICH SYNTHESIZER TO USE. THIS IS
BASED UPON THE TOTAL NUMBER CHARACTERS USED ON THE WEBPAGE – THERE ARE CURRENTLY 10 SYNTHESIZER EFFECTS AND THE ONE CHOSEN IS PICKED BASED UPON THE PERCENTAGE OF CONTENT.
LASTLY, THE CODEORGAN SELECTS A DRUM LOOP BASED UPON THE RATIO OF CHARACTERS ON THE PAGE VERSUS THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY MUSICAL NOTES – THERE ARE CURRENTLY 10 DIFFERENT DRUM LOOPS TO PICK FROM.
GO AND MAKE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TOGETHER.
THE CODEORGAN PEOPLE

I went through a bunch of websites that I will name off below (and you can listen to them in the video). Some were cool, some were odd, and some (slickdeals.net) I just had to stop because it was way too long. Good thing is that you can go to CodeOrgan.com and try it yourself.

Here are the sites I tried (in order).

1.) http://www.gigmaven.com
2.) http://blog.gigmaven.com
3.) http://www.twitter.com/gigmaven
4.) http://www.facebook.com/gigmaven
5.) http://www.google.com
6.) http://www.myspace.com/gigmaven
7.) http://www.gigmaven.com/for-venues
8.) http://www.youtube.com/gigmaven
9.) http://www.gigmaven.com/jupiterone
10.) http://www.gigmaven.com/lepoissonrouge
11.) http://www.gigmaven.com/sullivanhall
12.) http://www.gigmaven.com/about
13.) http://www.sesamestreet.com
14.) http://www.slickdeals.net

I’d say my favorite is probably the GigMaven About Page.

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