Big Ideas: Don't get any -- by James Houston

James Houston · 1.1M views · 2008-06-04 · 3:55

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Overview

James Houston's entry to Radiohead's Nude remix contest, performing the 6/8, 63bpm song on obsolete hardware such as hard drives, a dot matrix printer, a scanner and a ZX Spectrum.

On Hacker News

It is the canonical example HN brings up in threads about music hacks on floppy drives, printers and other junk hardware.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2011–2022

Topics

Demoscene & retrocomputing Music performance & songs Embedded systems & DIY electronics

What people said

torme · 2011-02 · Strong recommendation
If you haven't seen this yet, this is probably the best example of a hack like this that I've seen. It was submitted for a contest that radiohead held, and I believe was the winner (it takes about a minute to get rolling): [VIDEO] The sound of the scanner is pretty awesome. And the original by radiohead in case you need some context. [LINK]
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LegitShady · 2022-06 · Reference
Not exactly the same thing but it reminds me of James Houston's cover of Radiohead's Nude on hard drives, a dot matrix printer, a scanner, and a sinclair ZX Spectrum. [VIDEO] This says 14 years ago.
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ciabattabread · 2020-04 · Reference
For a brief second I thought your link was the Radiohead cover that used old computer equipment, including hard drives as speakers. Here’s that link: [VIDEO]
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