w00t Album

a collage of computer game sound and image

by composer Bob Ostertag and artist John Cooney.


In March of 2006, I put all my recordings to which I owned the rights (14 CDs) up for free download from this site. w00t
is my first release to skip the CD-for-sale stage and go directly to
free Internet download, under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
license. Please download, copy, send to your friends, remix, mutilate,
and mash-up. And please support this attempt to build free culture by
sending a link for w00t to your friends.

w00t consists of a 50-minute sound collage, a 4.5 minute sound “trailer,” and associated “cover art.” There is, however, no cover. w00t is a free, internet-only release.

w00t was composed entirely from fragments of music from these computer games:
Balloon Fight • Congo Bongo • Contra •
Earthbound • Halo: Combat Evolved • Ico • Katamari Damacy • Killer
Instinct • The Legend of Zelda • Massive Assault • Myst • Star Fox •
Super Metroid • Super Smash Bros.: Melee • Viewtiful Joe • WarioWare,
Inc: Mega Party Game$ • World of Warcraft

Images from these same games were included in the w00t art work.

The w00t music began as the sound for Special Forces,
a live cinematic performance by Living Cinema (Pierre Hébert and Bob
Ostertag), which addressed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006.