Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware 137
eldavojohn writes "The sweet sweet melodies of Queen and the late Freddie Mercury are reproduced by hardware almost as old as the song is. 'There are millions of computers sitting idle at home consuming fantom electricity. Let's see where all that power is going. This is dedicated to all fans of Queen and hey let's not forget about Mike Myers and Dana Carvey of Wayne's World. Please note no effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?) Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound, Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar, 8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass, 3.5 inch Hard drive as the gong, HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 separate times for each voice. I tried to buy 4 HP scanners but for some reason sellers on E-Bay expect you to pay $80-$100, I got mine for $30.'"
Re:Chiptunes... (Score:1, Informative)
warning: link looks like a myspace page!
*feels dirty after seeing that*
Re:Takedown? (Score:4, Informative)
You'd be wrong. The composition is under copyright, regardless of what bizarre contraptions you choose to perform it on.
Nothing to do with the RIAA, though.
Re:the best part (Score:3, Informative)
+1, Funny
For those who do not get the joke: go here [wikipedia.org] and search for 'No synthesizers'.
Re:Yes, and the Vimeo version is MUCH better quali (Score:3, Informative)
And of course, the source for some of the tech he used for the art school project, http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm [afrotechmods.com] Almost as old as the internet itself
um... well, it's kinda similar, sometimes, I guess (Score:3, Informative)
This statement holds true only if you use a very broad definition of "sweet".
And "melody".
And "reproduced".
There were large segments where, if I didn't know in advance that it was supposedly "Bohemian Rhapsody", I would have had no idea wtf I was listening to.
Re:Takedown? (Score:2, Informative)
One word: Parody [wikipedia.org].
A better word: Cover. [wikipedia.org]
Re:Takedown? (Score:5, Informative)
>>>RIAA doesn't control the copyright of the melody itself, only recordings of it made by RIAA-affiliated performers. You should be worried about BMI instead, I think.
It doesn't matter.
- If they yank my video I will upload it again.
- If they ban my account, I will create a new one.
- If they ban my IP, I will just roll-over to a new IP.
- If they sue me in court, I won't even bother to show up.
- If they win the case for 2 million dollars per current law, I will not pay. Instead I'll be picking-up the phone and calling CNN, FOX, NBC. I'll be blogging the internet and visiting radio talk shows in order to stir-up outrage among the American people, because 2 million dollars for a single song is cruel and unusual punishment. Unconstitutional law is invalid law. The resulting protests will scare the ____ out of the leaders and change will happen.
C'mon people. Where's your hacker spirit? Fight the man.
More likely it won't escalate that far, so no worries. The video will continue to be spread across the net either by youtube or bittorrent, and Liberty will win by default.