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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.

22 of 31 comments (clear)

  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 Chabo · · Score: 2, Informative

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

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

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

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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".

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

    It's been done before.

  7. Industries climbing by theredshoes · · Score: 1

    Weapons, porn and the unemployment rate. Great.

  8. 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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  9. I for one... by MostAwesomeDude · · Score: 1

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

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

    Ja. Do you want to touch my monkey?

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

    Let's get to da choppa!

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  12. 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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  13. Queen by Lunzo · · Score: 1

    Another one bites the dust.

  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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.

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

    the word slide whistle came to mind.

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