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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.

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

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

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  2. 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 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".

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

    It's been done before.