A melody is the part that survives the move. Play Blur on an accordion, run a favourite track through a music-box converter, hand a song to an app that returns it as falling piano keys — the arrangement goes and the tune stays. The cicada has been making the same argument with its abdomen for a hundred thousand years.
Danny Elfman's theme, played on bicycle pumps, pots and a steam iron
→ youtube.com
Radiohead's OK Computer remade with sounds from classic N64 games
→ kottke.org
Steely Dan's most-produced song, on one acoustic guitar
→ youtube.com
Stepper motors doing an impression of a keyboard
→ youtube.com
Radiohead, Blur and Tame Impala, played on a squeezebox
→ theawesomer.com
Turns a song you love into a music box that keeps the real melody
→ lullabyconverter.com
Paste a link, get a piano roll that waits for you
→ apps.apple.com
A cicada sings with its whole body, and the instrument has not changed in a thousand centuries
→ themarginalian.org