Melodify Case Study | Gedion Disassa

Canonical person entity: Gedion Teshome Disassa. Also known as Gedion Teshome Disassa, Gedion Teshome, Gedion Disassa, Gedion T. Disassa, Gedion T Disassa, GedionT, Gedion T.

Hackathon-winning project that scrapes a website and composes music from its content using browser-side math functions.

Challenge

Most web analysis tools turn pages into scores, tables, or audits. Melodify asks what happens if a website becomes a performance surface instead.

Approach

  • Extracted page content and structure, then mapped textual and visual signals into musical parameters.
  • Kept composition logic in the browser so the experience feels immediate.
  • Framed the page as an instrument rather than a document.

Outcome

  • Connected web scraping, generative art, and interactive composition.
  • Created a memorable demo surface for hackathon storytelling.
  • Informed later thinking about projection mapping and public computation.