I've seen this the other day on Amazon and was wondering how many people have actually tried to play this using 4 CD players.
I guess, first you'd need the necessary hardware (of course), it seems really a big effort to set this up properly (with all the speakers involved; is there a description for the setup included), and then you would need to figure out how to start all 4 players simultaneously; this really gives me a headache.
I would be really interested in your experiences if you actually tried this...
I tried it when it first came out, and I'm talking "by myself", which was a task. There are instructions in the set, and each CD had a voice which says something to the effect of "this is Track 1, disc number 1", or "this is track 1, disc number 2", "number 3", "number 4". When you hear the command of each number, you are supposed to press pause. Once they are at pause, then with timing you start them all at the same time. When you did that, then the "experiment" would begin. You could have the sound of airplane ambience coming out on one end, drums on the other, guitar and bass on another, and voice on another. Or a Hammond B-3 could rip through all four CD players.
It was difficult to do all four CD players at once, but you could do a combination of any two to make some interesting listening experiences. True to what Wayne Coyne is about, it was very much like someone with a quad reel or quad 8-track recorder and making your own custom tapes.
I'm just glad Warner Bros. kept them around after that, because I know
Zaireeka was not a big seller compared to whatever they were selling by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, or Green Day at the time.
Should they make a DVD-A of
Zaireeka? I hope they don't, because the project is unique in itself, unless 8.1 surround sound becomes a reality.
On a WB-related note, I'd like to hear RHCP's
BloodSugarSexMagik done in a 5.1 surround sound mix.