Press / Reviews
"Investment pros often talk about noise in a market...But no one ever talks about music in a market. At least not until now..." -- Pensions & Investments
"Who knew that stock market data could be so musical?…A nice counter to the often moody but seldom calm financial markets. " – Investors Business Daily
"...It's a bit like John Cage using star maps to make scores. Sometimes the music is modern classical, with piano and violins, but at times the work is almost electro-acoustic, such as the use of an antique ticker tape machine in 'Irrational Exuberance/Great Depression'...A fine balance between...orchestral pieces, a bit of sound collage and electro-acoustic music, all powered by this strange concept of whatever facts and figures the stock market has brought us. A most curious mixture." -- Vital Weekly
"...I just listened to "Stock Options", and it's pretty cool: A creepy, building howl, rather like the sound of storm-force winds whipping through the mooring-wires for electrical towers. Very appropriate!...these guys certainly get an A for effort and originality. -- Collision Detection
"Music Meets Wall Street...a surprisingly creative and haunting sound that is as diverse as today's global markets. The ethereal sound of 'Fibonacci's Random Walk' contrasts the harsh, industrial rhythms of 'Irrational Exuberance' and 'Industrial Century'. The chilling 'Misery Index' seems more at home as part of the soundtrack to a Japanese horror flick than an avant garde album...Check out Playing the Market". -- Reseize.com
"...'Fibonacci's Random Walk' is a soothing piano composition, while 'Industrial Century' sounds like background music from an Alfred Hitchcock thriller...within the category of atonal music, but not quite what you'd hear from an Arnold Schoenberg composition, though not quite something from a John Cage recording, but perhaps something in between..." -- Strange New Products
"...experimental, incorporating found audio, random elements and lots of creative weirdness..." -- Synthtopia
"...the CD, just like the Wall Street stock quotes themselves, is always keeping its customers on their toes." -- The Hurricane, University of Miami
"...in the spirit of John Cage...listen deeply..." --Futuratronics
"...'Fibonacci's Random Walk' is light and uplifting...recommended for all ages." -- posting at Financial Executives International
"Music to watch trades by...We wonder at Finextra HQ if this will inspire a new generation of musicians..." -- Finextra.
"Some may think the combination fine art and commerce usually don't serve either very well, but we think that could be changing...we're not sure if Greenspan would like it..." -- MSNBC
"...Bottom Line: Deeply weird..." -- Minyanville.com
Some of the press, websites, and blogs covering Playing the Market:
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Detection CORALOG Coudal Partners DEInix thedeplorableworld Digg Elegy on a toy
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Tomorrow Investors Business Daily It's
Suicide Without The Killing Yourself Just Another Tech Blog Karma
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Minyanville MoneyScience The Motley Fool UK MSNBC New York Times Occult Design omerta Overloading
the Machine Pensions & Investments Pixites prone Studio Reseize Scarbo
Seebreeze Sequenza21 Serendip Slashdot Sonic Magazine Stockbee Strange New Products
Suicide Girls Synthtopia Techzingo Tower Records The
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Century Schizoid Man