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I can’t multitask, and neither can my computer.

I decided to spend some of my “Dream Weekend” recording a piano/vocals song. Tonight I wrapped up a first stab at the vocals.

As I was waiting for the computer to finish loading the vocals track, I decided to play a few bars on my keyboard. Well, little did I know, I had confused my poor computer.

Suddenly I started hearing faint, eerie echoes emanating from my computer speakers. As they began to increase in volume and quantity, I became increasingly weirded out.

Finally I realized that somehow the computer had confused the two inputs it was trying to process (the audio track, and my doodling on the keyboard) and combined the two into this creepy chorus. I was able to duplicate the chaos and record it for your listening pleasure.

If you listen carefully to the whole thing, you’ll start to make out a phrase from the song. It’s especially clear at the very end. Kind of freaky that the computer managed to self-select that lyric!