News: Bok's 'Mushroom Clouds'

January 05, 2005, 09:24 PM

by simoniker, via GTA -
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Thanks to faux-hipster, cigarillo-smoking hyperfiction blog Grand Text Auto, we have information on Christian Bok's 'The Cyborg Opera', an audio album from 'the fastest-selling poet in Canadian history', in which 'parts of the poem, using ordinary English words, imitate the sound of the music from different segments of Super Mario Bros.' There's a MP3 excerpt from the album in which the Mario-related track, called 'Mushroom Clouds', starts at 01.15. We think we vaguely recognize the fast bit at about 02.00, and encourage everyone to listen for similarities until they go absolutely insane, which will likely be quite swiftly.