No effects or sampling were used. What you see is what you hear.
The following items were used:
- Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
- 8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
- 3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
- HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals.
Mike via Friendfeed also shared a remix of Radiohead’s Nude which is also mighty impressive, embedded below for you: (have to wait till 1.30 for it to kick in)
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
I once programmed a CNC mill (light industrial) to play a simple melody; but this blows that out of the water, nukes it from orbit, and then pees on the glowing ashes.