I’m lucky enough to have a husband who plays guitar and writes songs occasionally, one of which I have appropriated as my theme song. But that’s my personal theme song. What about 2literal.com — my public face?
This week I heard about Codeorgan on GeekBrief.TV (#720). Codeorgan is a free service that translates the code behind your website into music.
It looks at the content in between your homepage’s “body” tags, scraps any characters not found in the musical scale (A to G), then looks at these characters to determine which is the most commonly used “note.” If there are an even number of these notes, then the song will be in a major pentatonic scale; if it’s an odd number then the song will be in a minor scale.
It also defines a synthesizer to use based on the total number of characters used on the webpage, and a drum loop based on the ratio of that total to the number of characters that are musical notes.
The upshot is a pretty decent song. Listen to 2literal.com (it takes a few seconds to process). Not bad, right? Now I need a motto.
Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” According to Helen Keller, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” A dramatic sentiment for a dramatic life. But I think I like designer Phillip Lim’s motto — “Some days peanuts; some days shell.” Today I give you peanuts.