House Of The Rising Sun Played By Old Computers

This post about the old computer equipment has been featured on numerous sites and we had forgotten all about it, until we saw it again this morning. How many times have you heard the drum of a your scanner or printer and those monotonous sounds and were waiting for them to be done, so you could move forward with the next project? Did you ever consider making music out of it? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is a gem for sure. 

Check out the video below from vimeo or go back to the original post on Colossal 

"Although this has been making the rounds here and there it’s taken me a few weeks to actually sit down and appreciate this cover of The Animals House of the Rising Sun covered entirely using audio samples recorded from legacy computer equipment and diagnostic machines. The piece uses four primary “instruments” including an HP Scanjet 3P, an Atari 800XL with an EiCO Oscilloscope as the organ, a Texas instrument Ti-99/4A with a Tektronix Oscilloscope as the guitar and a hard-drive powered by a PiC16F84A microcontroller as the bass drum and cymbal. Video and music by PURETUNE. (via dudecraft)"

Update: Here’s a similar video done three years ago by James Houston, covering Radiohead. (thnx, stephen!)

Let The Outlaw Bikers Of Pakistan Be Known

As much as the World Police think they can stamp down on every country or faction and crush uprisings, ya can't kill western shoot'em up cultures influence. The world owes the United States a huge thank you for the bravado of characters such as John Wayne, Sonny Barger, Clint Eastwood and many more. Their sphere of influence has done more internationally and at home than foreign policy could ever hope to do. This goes out to anyone that surfs a motorcycle and can fire pistols at the same time, man up fellas.