The footage was of masses of pianos being mercilessly thrown off balconies in Europe. Thousands upon thousands of them destroyed, wounded beyond repair. Strings and shards of wood crunched asunder, the last splitting traumas of sound resonating into terrible silence as they met with the cobbled stones of obsolescence . . . to be replaced by TV . . . in this one moment 401(k)s stood to be lost, "the one eyed parent" was set to raise millions of children, and a wild west lawless technology had given birth to Microsoft, Myspace and Madoff ... and was loosed upon the world . . .
from
EMPATHY CHIP,
released November 30, 2010
Barney McAll - piano, synths, programming, insect processing, chucky
Gian Slater - voice
Christopher Hale - electric & acoustic bass guitar, bass vi, synths
Nir Felder - guitar
Dan West - programming, live processing, electronics, synths
Jojo Mayer - live drums
Peter Hemsley, beat programming