Lets begin with a quick plot synopsis.

Hitachi put up some .wav files with the sounds of hard drives gone bad. If you ever heard some of these sounds you will know all of them sound “expensive”. So Gizmodo offered a Tokyoflash Equalizer watch (lots and lots of blinky lights) to the person who uses those sounds to create a song that makes the whole world sing.

All of this was covered in the original post.

You can hear all of the competition results Odeo.
Mine is called Harddrive Stab and here is the review
“Tim Giachetti said:
Never been to a gay club?
You have now.
No really, good work, just a bit like Cher or any Diva queen could fit in there with the vocals.”

I think this is probably my favourite review ever.

Jools’ is called HardChill.mp3 and here is her review

“Tim Giachetti said:
Maybe it was timing, but this sucker here fit right in on my attitude at the time. Very nice, ethreal(?spelling?)even.9XKUDOS”

No we didn’t win.

Now onto new business.
Allan Underhill is an old friend who is a nifty little keyboard player (he’s played in at least two incarnations of my various bands) and found out about the Gizmodo competition too late to enter . So with the same constraints, 48hours , the harddrive samples and around 3 minutes. Here is his entry Hard Drive at The Movies and he is releasing it under Creative Commons License
“This song is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.1 Australia License“.

and yes “we hate him”, it sounds really good. I personally think he “cheated” by actually playing his instrument. Now I ask you….

Never let a human do a job that should be done with machines.

Isn’t that right Agent Smith?

Ohh? and the winner of the Gizmodo comp? Drum Roll…. the envelope please….
Hitachi Hard-Drive Project – Noriko Version