"ChamberVirus 2013" [mp3 removed]
A redo of a 2006 tune that I modestly described as:
Tech house Morton Subotnick using 2 softsamplers and some Access Virus effects sounds and drum hits from the Drat Fink Archive.
It's not house but more like polyrhythmic chamber music (that modesty again) using commercial, dance-oriented electronic drum samples. In 2013 (yesterday) I shortened it, added a wistful pad melody so there is more contrast with the pristine elements and the blatty noise music.
Here in America, a nation of fun-lovers, we are busy rehabilitating George Bush Jr. as an adorable pet painter, but other countries have longer memories. Mr. Art Man had to cancel a fun trip to wacky Europe recently out of fear of being arrested as a torturer. Buzz kill, man.
On the topic of Rio players and dedicated U2 iPods, above is a Bible pod from the Walmart website (hat tip mashedpo). You could theoretically use any mp3 player to hear the Bible being read aloud but the Audible Audiobooks versions have restrictive DRM to make them unplayable outside Audible's own proprietary software and besides, there is the hassle of loading the player. Hence this beeper-sized audio Bible that has only one (canonical) text.
Walmart also offers this blackberry style Bible in text-only.
The above text announces an exhibit in Red Hook of an internet art website (hat tip Peggy for screenshot).
Pretzel showed us his Rio player but we had to rely on Wikipedia for an explanation of the parallel cable used to transfer mp3s in and out of the player.
Here is a follow-up webcam from the P-man showing us the cable, and it's satisfyingly clunky indeed for our vision of an alternative future steampunk Earth where Apple never existed:
