Ursonate / Ursonography Excerpts (2005)

[imnothear]

rocket the baby?? to each their own i guess..

[Sadsic]

whats he trying to accomplish? im curious

[safd2009]

What's wrong with people

[purepassion02]

Is there a full half an hour long version of this anywhere?

[golanlevin]

@purepassion02 Yes, you can find complete information (including links to full versions) at my web site.

[lovelplants]

rinnzeke.. rakete bee bee...lol

[WdowgeNZ]

I just happend to search "Rakete Bee Bee" today.

[samurai1833]

It's Pootie Tang!

[Iambosnianful]

WIEVIEL!?? Ich wiederhole WIEVIEL!? >>>LANGEWEILE<<<< muss man haben um sowas zu machen ?

[noouch]

@Iambosnianful ich glaube die Frage lautet eher was man studiert haben muss um so was beruflich zu machen.

[jollyZOLLIE]

The red light just adds to the creepiness of it all.

[koloki8ia2]

somebody shoot me please. now !

[edwardflewisjr]

Sounds very much like Sheila Chandra and Her performance She calls speaking in tongues. Sheila Chandra-Taal.flv

[edwardflewisjr]

Sounds very much like Sheila Chandra and Her performance She calls speaking in tongues.

[kriscooch]

i mean this in a loving way: this is the most pretentious thing i've ever seen

[Merzmensch]

Schwitters is everything!

Lanke trr gll!

[pimcub2011]

interesting take on music. i like it.

5:02-5:10 sounds like Aladdin

[Jikutzu]

thats bullshit and nothing else.

[NewEonOrchestra]

I feel like my brain is being hacked.

[Guusvink]

Seriously... wtf?

[eguelman]

icelandic for beginers

[laxyates]

well this all makes me nervous and im kind anxioussssssssssssssssssss

[RUFFRYDAZz]

is he crazy?

[robactor]

Fantastic!! Long live Dada!!

[seviyorim]

I watch this in order to be grounded- redefine the borders of reality/ σκυψε....οχι απ'την αλλη.

[tensaihairygorilla]

rrrrrrr tim dom di tok tok zoki

[alaxy75]

hm.. zickedibäms kann i dir auch machen. gratis.

3:10 ist ja der moment, wo ich angst hab, dass mein macbook langzeitschäden davon tragen könnte..... sehr schön find ich auch, dass der text dabei steht. zum mitsingen äußerst hilfreich.

[BeaGagli]

Fantastique!

[sheenska00]

Am I the only person who feels joyful when he says Kwii ee?

[blahblahblah593333]

thank you :)

[blahblahblah593333]

can anyone tell me from what avant garde movement ursonate can be defined into? thanks:)

[jacobvee]

it's dada forever!!

[raufito74]

fümmms prffft zöki zöki brms ( = good job! KS would have loved it :-) )

[seviyorim]

ΙΜ ΚΣ.

[delusionaldiminutive]

This is unbelieveable. So brilliant. I can't believe Blonk memorized all this. He is so expressive with the words. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Nouseeker]

he didnt memorize it

[corey949]

I think of Berio's vocal lines as being less patterned or at least in less detail than the highly articulated Ursonate. I think of some of Bobby Mc Ferrin's stunning improvisations. In my experience as both performer and listener, the human voice is inexhaustibly expressive. I wonder if anyone's ever done a book or a film on extended vocal forms in global performance? From Tibetan chanting to the Roy Hart Theatre, Korean Pansori, scat singing, Chinese opera, Klingon opera (!) and more!

[Kethvan]

So very extremely innovative. Like .... Berio?

[RichyVapors]

LOVED IT!!!!!!

It seems inappropriate to use words here, sorry.

bababa goooooooo spga, mamamama prrrrrrrrrrr

thanks Golan.. Thanks Jaap.

[corey949]

Never has nonsense made so much sense! I've been a Schwitters fan since I first heard about him in a theatre history class at UCLA in 1963. The performance is impeccable. The full piece is 20 minutes long. Can you imagine memorizing that much "non-verbal" language, not to mention the incredibly demanding score? I saw Golan Levin's talk on TED which has a few other cool pieces of his. He's taking the spirit of Dada into the 21sr C. with appropriate sense of humor, without which Dada dies!

[Magnivore519]

I heard of this through another video and this is actually really interesting. Organized nonsense. It's organized nonsense in German right?

[Sesmie2]

Hurz!

[VoodooEule]

Dadaismus in höchster Form.<3<3

[sushigroove]

Absoluter Hammer! 5 Sterne! Dadaismus in Perfektion.

[cortez66666]

What the f....?

[jaragak]

oh.. Jaap Blonk is fantastic, as well Schwitters.

[zzzerooo]

Ich muss mich meinem Cousin KernspalterDX nur anschliessen: Die Ursonate ist beste wo gibt!

Die Interpretation von Logox ist auch nicht schlecht...;D

[Elfinacht]

LOL - die würde ich gerne hören, die Interpretatin von Logox. Kannste die vlt. posten?

[KernspalterDX]

LOL das geht noch WEITER???? wtf

ursonate is beste wo gibt ^^

[ArseniczPhosphor]

Ich weiß nicht, was ich davon halten soll, aber ich glaub dass es höchste konzentratinon und eine lange übungsphase braucht, um das auswendig und mit so einem starken ausdruck aufführen zu können.

[MaNTaX28]

Super! Einfach super!

[Rubytuesday9393]

das ist wahre kunst

und auch die performance ist nicht zu vergessen

einfach großartig...

menschen die diese ursonate nicht kennen haben echt ein stück kultur verpasst

[tkistheboss]

was is denn das für ne scheisse?

kann man dem noch irgendwie helfen?

[toloupe]

love gibberish, its theraputic...im into it with my nephew whos 2

[Shinytheelf]

Enormous fun.

[supermarky]

this is a gorgeous performance! have to say in the sections I know really well, having done them myself, that it can be pretty sloppy lol but. . . that's really only a big problem if you are looking at the score or know the piece too well, even then it's not an insurmountable condition. I think KS would enjoy this interpretation, I certainly did. this piece can go in a completely different directions like very loud forceful, scary, or instead hilarious, really emphasizing the comedy in the piece

[golanlevin]

Keep in mind that the live subtitles are triggered completely automatically in response to the sound of his voice. In some cases the computer makes an error of judgement or timing; this is why it sometimes appears "sloppy".

[morrow71]

@supermarky ooooh la dee da. You did it too? So did I. But I did it perfectly. Don't ask for a link though I lost it.

[policescum]

versteh ich nicht

[golanlevin]

Dude, ist es ein Unsinnsgedicht!

[Kethvan]

@policescum Das ist nicht so compliziert!!! Es ist toll... XD

[xTheOxx]

Is this all made-up language, or is there some Dutch in there?

This is amazing. Like stepping in a different dimension.

[golanlevin]

Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" poem is a half-hour of highly patterned nonsense. It was written for German consonants and vowels, however, which Blonk pronounces with a very slight Dutch accent.

[xTheOxx]

Thanks for the info. Somehow it seems even more impressive if there's no literal meaning to it.

The moment when the pattern becomes the most apparent, around 1:15, is truly stunning.

[delsinki]

@xTheOxx

no dutch.

[RegEditzZz]

@xTheOxx

No not Dutch, its made up I think haha,

[jjackinthebox]

@RegEditzZz true, this isnt any language at all.. its all about the sound and the intonation.

[tyrelroo]

THIS IS SO COOL.

But I'm not sure if I would call it dada. Dada, as I understand it, was about the destruction of conventions, such as structure, and this sound poem is nothing if not rigorously structured.

[JoKaye85]

It is deconstruction of conventions as it is a strict sonata, complete with several subjects and development.

its an incredable piece as well.

[arifreeman]

I love Kurt Schwitters

[amalesev]

Fascinating!

Yes, thanks for posting!

[parespayer]

not officially dada (tension between huelsenbeck and schwitters). merz.

[paniconya5]

Dada lives!

[LittleCatBead]

wow!!! this is amazing!

[HagiaSophia]

Amaaazing!

Thank you for posting