November 29th, 2007

By Darren Barefoot

Filed under:
Music, Olympics, Vancouver
13 Comments »

An Anthem for 2010

Earlier this week, Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic mascots were revealed. You can see and hear the mascots through this microsite.

Each mascot will say their (his? her?) name aloud when you mouse over the text of their name. When I heard Sumi say his or her name, I heard something of a mid-nineties rave in it. Just a hint, really.

I spent an hour with GarageBand, and produced 67 seconds of pure Olympic magic. To play the song, just click the icon in the box below:

I know it’s really awful, but I had tremendous fun making it. GarageBand rocks out. As it were.

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Comments: 13 Responses so far

Kalev
November 29th, 2007
2:47 am

Oh my gosh you HAVE to copyright that! It’s brilliant, although you need more MIGA!

alexis
November 29th, 2007
6:57 am

That is awesome.

On the website, you can also take a quiz to find out which mascot you’re most like.

I’m Sumi.

bz
November 29th, 2007
7:35 am

good lord.

you may know lots about social media, but not so much about rhythm. lol. ;)

darren
November 29th, 2007
8:05 am

bz: Actually, it’s just that I couldn’t be arsed to carefully edit the samples so that they fit the cadence of the, uh, back beat.

gilliebean
November 29th, 2007
10:53 am

I need more cowbell.

Beth
November 29th, 2007
12:19 pm

Quatchi rules!

Jordan
November 29th, 2007
3:05 pm

Honestly Darren…where do you find the time? I dig the stereo echo effect at the end. Nice touch.

Boris Mann
November 29th, 2007
6:52 pm

Sue Me. Gonna happen…I look forward to picketing outside your jail cell.

Horst Mann (Opa)
November 30th, 2007
6:54 pm

Oh Darren, you are funny. Now I know why you had to leave Vancouver.

DMack
November 30th, 2007
10:35 pm

what a quatchi little tune

alexis
December 1st, 2007
4:51 pm

I played this for my coworkers and they loved it.

It was a slow news day.

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December 25th, 2012
4:50 pm

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