I Can Has Schoenberg
Alert the animal rights police! Via The Standing Room we learn of cats cruelly forced to recreate Schoenberg's Drei Klavierstücke, without their knowledge or consent. Cory Archangel used freeware and perl scripts to hack together a performance of the piece using Youtube clips of cats walking on pianos. Madness! Torture!
(Don't miss the audio file of a direct, simultaneous comparison of the cat version with Glenn Gould's, one in each ear, which is far more impressive than the video, which I didn't bother to finish. Of course, if you happen to love music that never resolves, by all means listen to all three videos.)
Labels: MusicTheory, VideoClip, Wrong Note
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
