The Music of the Internet?

June 2, 2001 9:05 AM

The Music of the Internet? "This site converts the IP address of your computer to music... The sound is created online from the four nodes of your IP address with a fractal composition program which reveals The Music in the Numbers..."
posted by tranquileye (27 comments total)

Evidently, I'm to be found at something that sounds like that Robert Palmer song from the seventies, the one that goes "Doctor, doctor, gimmie the news, I got a bad case of luvn' you."

I feel so hip.
posted by dong_resin at 9:33 AM on June 2, 2001

Apparently I'm even hipper than I thought... sounds like Radiohead
posted by tj at 10:05 AM on June 2, 2001

how very douglas adams-like!
posted by o2b at 10:14 AM on June 2, 2001

Ladies and gentlemen...presenting jpoulos, with music by Philip Glass.
posted by jpoulos at 10:28 AM on June 2, 2001

everyone thought of someone different,
i thought bjork.
posted by elle at 10:40 AM on June 2, 2001

the point is, elle, that everyone's will sound different. yours probably did sound like bjork. when i put in the domain for one of my sites, it sounded more like--i don't know--a bad MIDI of the Cure or something.
posted by jpoulos at 10:45 AM on June 2, 2001

sounded like stereolab to me.
posted by moz at 10:54 AM on June 2, 2001

I'm kinda disappointed that the compositions use the time to make the tune, which means I can't listen to the same melody twice.
posted by waxpancake at 10:56 AM on June 2, 2001

The Residents.
posted by crasspastor at 11:00 AM on June 2, 2001

Yeah, I got something very Residents-sounding here too. Although maybe it sounds more like a Danny Elfman movie score crossed with Morphine.
posted by kindall at 11:23 AM on June 2, 2001

I'm kinda disappointed that the compositions use the time to make the tune, which means I can't listen to the same melody twice.

There's a link to download the song if you like it.
posted by redfoxtail at 11:36 AM on June 2, 2001

Mine sounded like my IP address composed with a fractal algorithm.
posted by ktheory at 12:06 PM on June 2, 2001

If you like this, try the Metamath Music page which has musical interpretations of low-level proofs of mathematical theorems, such as the resolution to Russel's Paradox (music) and the associative law for function composition.(music)


Admittedly, it doesn't sound as neat as the web page thing.
posted by CrunchyFrog at 1:22 PM on June 2, 2001

it keeps crashing my browser... anyone else?
posted by o2b at 1:34 PM on June 2, 2001

background filler for crouching tiger, hidden dragon.
posted by heather at 3:44 PM on June 2, 2001

Mine was Muskrat Love... What does that mean?
posted by machaus at 6:17 PM on June 2, 2001

Why do I hear nothing? What's wrong with me. : (
posted by ParisParamus at 7:25 PM on June 2, 2001

I am located at Mortal Kombat meets Tetris :)
posted by riffola at 8:15 PM on June 2, 2001

I think I made this same song on Mario Paint for the SNES years ago...
posted by antispork at 8:21 PM on June 2, 2001

it doesn't work with AOL?
posted by ParisParamus at 8:25 PM on June 2, 2001

no, actually...Quicktime has some issues with IE 6beta...at least that was why it locked for me....say what you will, I think this thing is absolutely stupid. The fact that it sounded like an awful midi file that some 5th grader will load on his geocities account did it for me. Blah...
posted by canoeguide at 10:44 PM on June 2, 2001

Mine sounded like the factory music in every Warner Brothers cartoon involving an assembly line, then switched to someone trying to get a modem connection while the choir practiced in the abbey. Oh, it's started again, this time with Eno at the kalimba warehouse.
posted by pracowity at 4:21 AM on June 3, 2001

I've got something that sounds rather like the background sounds of SimCity 2000. Oh, for joy.
posted by youhas at 4:42 AM on June 3, 2001

"the factory music in every Warner Brothers cartoon involving an assembly line"

Speaking of which, anyone know the name of that piece? I've been trying to find that out for ages.
posted by CrayDrygu at 12:00 PM on June 3, 2001

Excellent. Apparently my IP address is the completion music for 'Ghouls & Ghosts' (Megadrive/Genesis version). This makes me a happy man indeed.

www.metafilter.com, on the other hand, consistently turns out to be grand, sweeping and orchestral. How fitting.
posted by MUD at 5:00 PM on June 3, 2001

> Speaking of which, anyone know the name of that piece?
> I've been trying to find that out for ages.

Look for The Carl Stalling Project, which has all of the best Stalling cartoon music. That particular tune is called Powerhouse.
posted by pracowity at 10:32 PM on June 3, 2001

Awesome...I'll look for it. Thanks.
posted by CrayDrygu at 1:21 PM on June 4, 2001