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Financial Crisis Soundtrack

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-is-the-sound-of-the-dollar-falling dept.

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.

31 comments

  1. No Reggae? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what I like to hear when things go up in smoke.

    1. Re:No Reggae? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's what I like to hear when things go up in smoke.

      I think you meant "get high".

    2. Re:No Reggae? by Chabo · · Score: 2, Informative

      http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/for_forums/thats_the_joke.jpg

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  2. Forget the soundtrack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How about some Cliffs Notes so we can flip through and find out how this thing ends?

    1. Re:Forget the soundtrack by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 1

      ...find out how this thing ends?

      Everyone dies, things explode, and human endeavour turns to chaos...

      I think I saw that on The Discovery Channel.

  3. FFVII: FC by gbarules2999 · · Score: 0

    I heard Financial Crisis and said, "Oh, so they made another Final Fantasy VII spinoff?"

    1. Re:FFVII: FC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Financial Crisis" makes sense though. You have to stick two words together, preferably both nouns, that don't make any sense at all. Such is the exquisite art of the Japanese subtitle.

      Coincidentally, the next FF7 is "Final Fantasy 7: Crabstick Bezel."

  4. The soundtrack is a lie... by Darundal · · Score: 1

    ...it should have come out as the sound of a million panes of glass breaking.

  5. Credit Crunch Blues by Ronald+Dumsfeld · · Score: 1

    Bleh, talentless hack.

    Try The Credit Crunch Blues instead. Yes, it's on archive.org so the page may be a bit slow to load.

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  6. Life imitiates Douglas Adams? by H0p313ss · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wasn't this a minor sub-plot in a Douglas Adams novel? A program that would write corporate theme tunes based on their financial results?

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    1. Re:Life imitiates Douglas Adams? by maxcelcat · · Score: 1

      Yep, the second Dirk Gently novel as I recall.

    2. Re:Life imitiates Douglas Adams? by Nazlfrag · · Score: 1

      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.

    3. Re:Life imitiates Douglas Adams? by greg1104 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes, the software was named "Anthem". If you wander to Google Book Search, 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".

  7. This is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is probably the most interesting post idle has had yet.

    1. Re:This is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed. Not bad.

  8. Prior art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's been done before.

  9. Industries climbing by theredshoes · · Score: 1

    Weapons, porn and the unemployment rate. Great.

    1. Re:Industries climbing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You tell me.

      I just lost my girlfriend to some pr0n director.

      So much for a Ph.D in maths. Should've just party hardied.

  10. Did I see by Hognoxious · · Score: 0

    Did I see the words "German" and "funny"?

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    1. Re:Did I see by treeves · · Score: 1

      Ja. Do you want to touch my monkey?

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    2. Re:Did I see by binarylarry · · Score: 1

      Let's get to da choppa!

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    3. Re:Did I see by tpgp · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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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    4. Re:Did I see by MRe_nl · · Score: 1

      Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
      Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

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    5. Re:Did I see by superstick58 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Sure, I'll yell Heil Hitler next time I walk into a German Bar.

      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.

  11. There is a problem, though. by jd · · Score: 1

    The music, as originally generated, had too much bass that rapidly plunged below the threshold for the human ear.

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  12. I for one... by MostAwesomeDude · · Score: 1

    I for one have a completely different opinion of Songsmith now.

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  13. I never knew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    being broke and lied to could sound so good!

  14. Queen by Lunzo · · Score: 1

    Another one bites the dust.

  15. I hate to say it.... by ZosX · · Score: 2, 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?

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  16. Hooray for the pr0n industry! by Eg0Death · · Score: 1

    I thought the music for pr0n should have been more of the "bow chicka wow mow" variety. Maybe a few grunts and screams and an "Oh baby!" for good measure.

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  17. When I read this... by Thelasko · · Score: 1

    the word slide whistle came to mind.

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