Wednesday, October 17, 2007

wOOt: Free download for the gamer in you

w00t is a collage of computer game sound and images by composer Bob Ostertag and artist John Cooney. It's also a free download from his website.
Says Ostertag:"In March of 2006, I put all my recordings to which I owned the rights (14 CDs) up for free download from this site. w00t is my first release to skip the CD-for-sale stage and go directly to free 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 by sending 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
• Killer Instinct
• 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

Get it here.

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