50-Minute Sound Collage Combines Audio from 17 Videogames

Bob Ostertag, the musician who committed "professional suicide" by posting MP3s of his music online a few months ago, has released a nearly hour-long composition called w00t, comprised entirely of audio captured from various classic videogames, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. You can get the liner notes here; the audio downloads are below. […]

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Bob Ostertag, the musician who committed "professional suicide" by posting MP3s of his music online a few months ago, has released a nearly hour-long composition called w00t, comprised entirely of audio captured from various classic videogames, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. You can get the liner notes here; the audio downloads are below.

According to Ostertag,

w00t
is my first release to skip the CD-for-sale stage and go directly tofree Internet download, under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
license. Please download, copy, send to your friends, remix, mutilate,
and mash-up. And please support this attempt to build free culture bysending a link for w00t to your friends.

w00t consists of a 50-minute sound collage, a 4.5 minute sound “trailer,” and associated "cover art." There is, however, no cover. w00t is a free, internet-only release.

w00t was composed entirely from fragments of music from these computer games:

Balloon Fight • Congo Bongo • Contra •
Earthbound • Halo: Combat Evolved • Ico • Katamari Damacy • KillerInstinct • The Legend of Zelda • Massive Assault • Myst • Star Fox •
Super Metroid • Super Smash Bros.: Melee • Viewtiful Joe • WarioWare,
Inc: Mega Party Game$ • World of Warcraft

The w00t "trailer" (audio preview -- 4.0MB, 4:14 minutes)

w00t (full composition -- 57.5MB, 50:15 minutes)