Financial Crisis Stock Charts Set To Polka Music @ The Roundup

by Silicon Valley Blogger on March 11, 2009

Want to hear what the financial crisis sounds like when it’s set to some techno-polka music? Then check out this video that shows us some melodies derived from recent stock charts (the songs were arranged using Songsmith, the Microsoft Composition tool). It’s a little hard to describe but when you see it, it’s self-explanatory. Maybe it’ll elicit a mild chuckle out of you. If I’m lucky.

 
Hmmm… I think it could have worked better if they used more dramatic musical scores; those would have been more effective in emphasizing the market downtrends.

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I’d also like to point you to my latest post over at Wise Bread entitled How The Economic Crisis Challenges Our Financial Beliefs. I asked the question “does this financial crisis affect your views on personal finance?” I wrote my thoughts on this because I’m beginning to notice just how insidious a recession we have: not only does it wreak havoc on our finances but also tests and challenges our long-held money beliefs and the way we think about our finances.

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{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 SimplyForties March 11, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Okay, you got your chuckle! Who would think to do that?!

2 Jeff@StretchyDollar March 12, 2009 at 9:27 am

Thanks for stopping by and for the link!

3 mic March 13, 2009 at 2:43 am

i think the point is that in this charts music song they used this easy-listening sound as a contradiction to the serious money damage.

4 Silicon Valley Blogger March 13, 2009 at 7:27 am

Yes you guys have a point! I guess what else can we do but try to take a humorous swipe at our troubles. But I still can’t help but cringe at how far some of those stocks have fallen!

5 The David March 22, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Thanks for the link – I’m glad you liked my personal carnival! I need to keep tracking comments so I can have another one ready for 200.

I like the Polka video by the way… it is nice to at least have some fun with all the bad news. You gotta be able to laugh at life, right?

6 The Smarter Wallet November 4, 2009 at 11:33 am

It’s always better to act as a professional during financial crisis and first thing to do is cutting all the unnecessary costs of the company. This is the best we can do while trying to improve our sales as well.

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