I know what you're thinking right now which malicious life composer had a stroke to write such horrible

in through music. Don't worry, all of our composers are in perfect health. In fact, we don't have a composer.

The music you just heard, if you can call it music, is definitely not pleasant.

It sounds like the kind of thing a small child would make using the GarageBand

app on their parent's iPad.

But it's actually pretty cool.

Back in the early 2000s, libertarian leaning programmers around the world began a miniature artistic movement, all based on a software program.

The idea was to use the source code of this particular program and turn it into various forms of artistic expression.

T-shirts and ties with the code were manufactured and sold online.

A high school student printed the code as the quote in his high school yearbook.

Another group of friends created a video

where the code scrawled on screen in the style of a Star Wars movie intro sequence.

The song you just heard was part of this movement.

A man named Jeff Schreppfer created it by, quote, removing all the white space

in the code, then transforming each ASCII character into a single note of its

MIDI equivalent."

End quote.

Essentially, he translated the text of the program

into musical notes, which is why it sounds nonsensical.

Later, Mike Castleman, another software engineer, created his own version of the song by incorporating

all white space and new lines of the code into the length of the note.

Here's a snippet from that work.

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