Songs Turned into Tweets, 140 or Less.

Fitting a song into 140 characters or less. It seems like an impossible task. It may even seen silly. But it’s been done, time and again. Enough so that a Best Of album has been created, aggregating compositions from several Twitter musical magicians. But just because we’ve found a way to compress blog posts into 140 characters or less doesn’t mean that the concept should be applied to music as well, does it?

After composer Dan Stowell created a mini song by encoding the sound of waves crashing on the shore using SuperCollider, he tweeted the results. Others quickly followed suit, making their own compositions of compressed songs that could essentially fit into a single tweet. How novel.
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