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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.

3 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.

  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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    XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
  3. Prior art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's been done before.