Financial Crisis Soundtrack 31
German musician Johannes Kreidler made a soundtrack of the global economic crisis composed by running financial graphs through SongSmith. It gets political in a few spots, but is bleakly funny.
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No Reggae? (Score:4, Funny)
That's what I like to hear when things go up in smoke.
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http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/for_forums/thats_the_joke.jpg [starcraftmazter.net]
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Everyone dies, things explode, and human endeavour turns to chaos...
I think I saw that on The Discovery Channel.
The soundtrack is a lie... (Score:2)
Credit Crunch Blues (Score:2)
Try The Credit Crunch Blues [archive.org] instead. Yes, it's on archive.org so the page may be a bit slow to load.
Life imitiates Douglas Adams? (Score:5, Informative)
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Yep, the second Dirk Gently novel as I recall.
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I can't quite recall, but what I do recall is a Dirk Gently radio play, the one with the electric monk, where a programmer is making software that interprets financial statements into music.
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Yes, the software was named "Anthem". If you wander to Google Book Search [google.com], you can find the initial description of it on page 29: "if you wanted your company accounts represented as a piece of music, it could do that as well...it produced lots of cheery company anthems".
Prior art (Score:3, Informative)
It's been done before. [bbc.co.uk]
Industries climbing (Score:1)
Did I see (Score:1)
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Let's get to da choppa!
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Did I see the words "German" and "funny"?
Try mocking germany to germans, then mocking america to americans.
Then tell me which country has a better sense of humour.
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Then, I'll yell America is a sub-par country the next time I walk into a US bar.
i'll get back to you with the results.
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Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
There is a problem, though. (Score:2)
The music, as originally generated, had too much bass that rapidly plunged below the threshold for the human ear.
I for one... (Score:2)
I for one have a completely different opinion of Songsmith now.
Queen (Score:1)
Another one bites the dust.
I hate to say it.... (Score:3, Interesting)
But that was fucking great! I loved how it all sounded like SimCity theme music. (probably because of the MIDI instrumentation) Will Songsmith really take images and make songs out of them?
Hooray for the pr0n industry! (Score:1)
When I read this... (Score:2)