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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. 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. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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.