America’s Mayor… Remixed?

To anyone who’s into sound art, remixing or electronic music production, this might be a good opportunity for you to make a humorous political statement AND win some fabulous prizes! From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:

Here’s over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh’s, courtesy of America’s mayor. Your mission: turn some or all of them into music, to be reposted here. The best one received by December 5th wins a WFMU Messenger Bag full of CDs and other assorted swag. (I edited this version from a video collage made by Ben Craw of talkingpointsmemo.com)

Click here for more information on how to enter. If you do, you’ll be in good company. I’m going to try and take a whack at this over the weekend (gotta have something to do on Buy Nothing Day, right?), and I’ll post the finished product for all to hear. Or run screaming from.

(Actually, The MP3 file is entertaining enough on its own – after about thirty seconds, the message starts to mean less and less, and by the crescendo at the end leading up to the punchline, you come to the painful, migraine-inducing realization that maybe Joe Biden was right…)