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In the 1990s, they created Freak Show.

This marked the beginning of The Residents ' obsession with emerging computer technology in the 1990s.

Much of the music was made with MIDI devices.

Freak Show also served as the name for a CD-ROM released by the Voyager Company on January 1994, shortly after Laurie Anderson's first multimedia CD-ROM experiment, Puppet Motel.

Freak Show was also a stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague that premiered on November 1, 1995, and a comic book.

Several of the songs were also performed live during the 1997 25th anniversary concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

After the CD-ROM's success, the album was re-released as The Freak Show Soundtrack with a different cover.

A limited edition, The Freak Show Special Edition, was released in 2002 to mark their 30th anniversary.