Emergency Broadcast Network

EBN is the name of a multimedia performance group. The founders were Joshua Pearson and Gardner Post. The EBN Live Team also included DJ Ron O'Donnell and video artist/technologist Greg Deocampo.

Their modus operandi was to take cable telvision broadcasts and remix them with a funky beat, often having the lyrics 'sung' not by a singer but by half-second sound clips from TV spliced together. For example for the lyric 'electronic behavior control system', television, a clip of Ross Perot might say 'electronic', perhaps George Bush would say 'behavior', perhaps Ted Koppel would say 'control', and someone else would say 'system'.

Among their videos are 'Electronic Behavior Control System', which mocked the way television controls our lives. Another was a cover of 'we will rock you' by Queen, except that it was a remix of clips of George Bush making announcements about the Gulf War who was singing 'we will rock you' instead of a singer.

Bono of the band U2 noticed them and hired them to help with the Zoo TV tour. Apparently the live show is quite amazing.