Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy kept busy during the US Open by using an algorithm he devised to create 14 experimental music pieces by "remixing" the tournament matches themselves. He made the pieces, which sound like free-form synthesizer video-game jams with rhythms and bleeps volleying around like tennis balls, in real time on the US Open website. The original songs, cataloged by date and the players in a match, are still available to stream – with visual annotations of when a player scored and when rounds ended – on the tennis tournament's website. Now his remixes are beginning to surface on SoundCloud.
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