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COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES COMMUNITY

BUILT WITH COLLABTUNES

Things people made using this catalog. Add yours.

What This Is

The 433 lyrics in this catalog are free to use. Musicians, developers, designers, and fans have started building things with them — interactive lyric pages, music visualizers, custom tools, playlists, web experiments, games, and whatever else the catalog inspires.

This page is where to find what people have made, and how to add your own creation to the community. Tom has no involvement in hosting or moderating any of it. You build it, you own it, you share it.


Two Tags — Know Which One to Use

This project runs under two brands that mean different things. Tag your work correctly:

#collaborhythm

For work based on the poems and lyrics themselves — readings, visual interpretations, lyric displays, text-based experiments, anything that puts the words front and center.

→ See #collaborhythm

#collabtunes

For work based on songs made from the lyrics — music visualizers, audio tools, recordings, anything where someone took the words and turned them into actual music.

→ See #collabtunes

When in doubt, tag both. They'll converge over time into two distinct communities doing two different things with the same source material.


How to Share What You Built

Everything lives on CodePen — a free public platform for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No approval process. No moderation by Tom. Free forever.

Three Steps

  1. Create a free account at codepen.io and build your thing — or paste your existing HTML/CSS/JS into a new Pen.
  2. Go to Pen Settings → Pen Details and add the tag collaborhythm, collabtunes, or both — depending on what you made.
  3. Save it as public. Done — it appears in the community tag page automatically.

What You Can Build

  • Interactive lyric display for a favorite song — click a line, see the theme, feel the album
  • Music visualizer synced to a Collaborhythm recording on YouTube
  • Custom playlist generator that filters by rating (G through X) or mood
  • Album art generator that pulls from a lyric and renders it visually
  • Lyric comparison tool — side by side across albums or eras
  • A quiz or game built from the catalog — guess the album, match the theme, rate the song
  • A full-page immersive reading experience for a Set List or Song List
  • Anything else — 433 songs, 29 years, the range is wide

The Only Rule

Put Tom's name on it. That's it.

Credit Collaborhythm Collabtunes as the lyric source. Everything you build is yours — you own it, you control it, you profit from it. The attribution chain records your contribution permanently.

Full terms: Manifesto and Copyright Notice  ·  Lyric Use Certificate

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COLLABTUNES.COM — THE MODERN AMERICAN SONGBOOK — 433 SONGS — 34 ALBUMS — 29 YEARS