Mike Patton plays the Intonarumori

[SNB222]

it's acoustic dubstep

[zeppelinman4232]

@SNB222 fuck that. It's acoustic Sunn 0)))

[SNB222]

@zeppelinman4232 lol Sunn 0))) unplugged

[zeppelinman4232]

@SNB222 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[franny96MJ]

this intrument, i think its for the soundtrack of the movies or idk XD

[jakethegimp2]

I'm sure it won't be long before some pretentious cock comes along and describes this as art and patton as a genius for expressing himself, when it is infact just him giving a handjob to a wooden box.

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@jakethegimp2 Thank god you're here to lecture us about what art is.

[jakethegimp2]

@JacobMorrisNinetyTwo

You have me mistaken, I'm here to lecture you about what art isn't.

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@jakethegimp2 That's just as silly, art is whatever the individual wants it to be. Unfortunately, that upsets a lot of people because a lot of people have their own clear definition of art that isn't necessarily shared by everybody else.

[jakethegimp2]

@JacobMorrisNinetyTwo

If art is whatever the individual wants it to be, then the word has no meaning whatsoever outside of a subjective viewpoint.

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@jakethegimp2 Art is entirely subjective, the word only has no meaning if you don't appreciate anything as art. To view art objectively is to consider the opinions of huge groups of people who don't share your values completely redundant.

So how would you define art then, out of curiosity?

[jakethegimp2]

@JacobMorrisNinetyTwo

I would define art as expression demonstrated by a skill or talent. There is no skill / talent involved here, just somebody pumping a wooden box.

[Chinardo]

@jakethegimp2 Would you define photography as just someone pointing and clicking a box?

[jakethegimp2]

@Chinardo

That depends, for an average point and shooter yes, For someone who understands lighting principles / how to control flash / exposure / setup multiple speedlights etc, no.

[ImaginaryMinstrels]

@jakethegimp2 This is presuming that the only talent you can have is technical ability, which simply isn't the case - art can be considered art for the message it communicates or the mood it purveys, or the connection it creates with the artist, etc etc. This is why art cannot possibly be objective, if we decided that only one kind of art mattered in the world we're essentially casting out entire artistic movements and differing opinions of billions of people completely redundant.

[jakethegimp2]

@ImaginaryMinstrels

They gave a monkey a camera at a zoo recently, he took some pictures. Is the monkey an artist? Anyone with 0 musical background or talent in the world could walk into that room and create the same noise Patton is making, does that make everyone in the world an 'artist'? Art has to be a mix of both creativity and talent, not one or the other. If I give someone the finger on the street, I am communicating a message. Does that make it art?

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@jakethegimp2 The answer to all those questions, depending on who you're asking, could actually be yes. It may not be your interpretation of art, but if somebody out there, regardless of how insignificant they are, considers any of your examples art, then it's art but only to that person (or whoever shares that perspective). Art is a wholly abstract idea specific to human interpretation, it is not a logical systemised concept. There is no way to clearly define it universally.

[jakethegimp2]

@JacobMorrisNinetyTwo

I do somewhat agree with you. But if that is that case then the word 'art' has absolutely no valid meaning whatsoever.

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@jakethegimp2 That's one of the interesting things about art, it doesn't really have a meaning at all - and a lot of 20th century modernism and avant garde artistic movements were intentionally puzzling and challenged audiences to test those boundaries of what defines art. I do appreciate the things you're saying about Mark Patton and the intonarumori, but they're reasons why this isn't art to your perception. Perfectly valid viewpoint, but not the only viewpoint available :P

[jakethegimp2]

@JacobMorrisNinetyTwo

But if that is the case, then we need a word to differentiate between people who create 'art' via a real talent / skill, from someone carrying out any act without any kind of skill behind it and describing it as art. The works of Mozart and someone pumping a box shouldn't come under the same umbrella term.

[JacobMorrisNinetyTwo]

@jakethegimp2 They don't technically come under the same umbrella. They're still both art insofar as they're both expressions of people's creativity (arguably), but specifically they're still completely different forms of art.

[MorkaGraven]

@JacobMorrisNinetyTwo Music is entirely conceptual, there are no boundaries beyond sound. The rest is perception, aural training and understanding.

[jakethegimp2]

@ImaginaryMinstrels

If a musician plays a scale precisely and 100% accurately, is that art? Nope, because there is no creativity to go with it. The other side of that coin is that creativity without ability/talent is equally lacking in artistic merit. I don't see any creativity in this video. In fact I bet if you got 100 people off the street to 'play' that box, you wouldn't be tell which was Patton playing it.

[MorkaGraven]

It just goes to show, experimenting with sound is a not a mature activity yet it still produces something most of us listen to daily regardless of how the music was composed and executed. All music at some point in it's development was experimental.

[phreestylesk8r]

i think this was used for mondo cane

[marc0d0n]

0:52-0:56 lol

[Tordah26]

Lol, you could use that to cover Meshuggah.

[fuckoffplan]

loše loše i opet loše sve će se svesti na njegov lijevi kroše

[borowczyk76]

2:01 :D

[dragontooth81]

its stupid

[apxeli]

get me out of this air-conditioned nightmare!

[untuned92]

They are right, it's a very expressive instrument, so very natural. Just from the look on Pattons face you can see that he really feels emotion in the sound.

[asesino1401]

hahahaha patton is horny hahahaha

[ArgHamster]

Sounds like a dead badger carcass.

[fuckamericanidiot]

@ArgHamster as opposed to a live badger carcass?

[Zegeebwah]

Is anyone able to make out what kind of recording device Mike is getting those sounds with? I would love to pick one up and record sounds of my own.

[ditroiamusic]

@Zegeebwah It's a Microtrack from M audio

[Zegeebwah]

@ditroiamusic

I owe you a kidney mate!

[ditroiamusic]

@Zegeebwah Just a thanks is good enough ;) As far as I know my kidneys are still good! lol..I have a Zoom H4n..I HIGHLY recommend it. But the microtrack is nice too.

[hayter4god]

I am a heterosexual male, but god DAMN he is sexy

[passiveMenis]

Pretentious idiot

[milkboymedia]

you people are on drugs, it sounds fuckin' amazing.

[iggyds89]

it's a shame it sounds like a dying camel with diarrhea

[ska2808]

He's a pretentious bastard, but I love him XD

[zappamania89]

At 0:35 he said "fuck" in italian (cazzo).

[stanchinsky]

8O I love these noise makers!!

[AvirtualSwitzerland]

Research Mickey Hart and The Grateful Dead...he's been making these sounds since 1980...NOTHING new my friends!...(refer to: DRUMS/SPACE)

[Catalyst2376]

@AvirtualSwitzerland

the futurists were around in the late 1700s

[AvirtualSwitzerland]

@Catalyst2376 .....Get your story straight, Chumly.....Luigi Russolo invented the device in 1913 (Around 200 years AFTER your alleged date)

[Catalyst2376]

@AvirtualSwitzerland

your right, typo, just as long as the Dead dont get credit for Futurists lol

[lecrapauddejerri9]

are these real instruments or just a one off thing?

[Gabzau]

@lecrapauddejerri9 They were a 'conceptual' instrument, created in the beginning of the XX century. Luigi Russolo, italian, tried to do music with noises, as the world was entering in the noisy modern era.

[seanileus]

I bet he would have fucking loved that.

[DAVIDVINCENTDURING]

genius at work

[CodyRicheson]

Great stuff. Interesting to see these nosie machines in action.

[prodigy503]

this is hillarious:D

[beauch]

Mmmmm... that's powerful.

(HAHAHAHAHA!)

[melvincrover]

either the guy with the beard is 4'11" or mike is wearing heels!!

[KrumpleStump]

i want that little recorder he has dammit!

[medanzig]

Crap I wish I could have seen the performance of that! I've always read about Russolo and the futurists but have only seen a hand full of YouTube videos. It's so great to hear a bunch of them!

[SolarEXtract]

haha, if anyone could appreciate a noisemaker like that, it's Mike Patton.

[TheCatasstrophy]

omg i wish i was there D:

[Stampit88]

How fucking amazing is that. He can make music out of anything. If there was blast beats and all he did was scream his ass off, well then that's music to my hears.

[AnangoMagic]

Just noticed this video has transcribed closed captioning now (guessing translation) and watching this video with that. Try it.

[hexachordal]

What the HELL is in those boxes. This is so awesome.

[1Heretic]

This noise makes me sleepy

[crazzzymike69]

You can get the same sounds at a construction site.....

[danwillingham]

He's like a child with a new toy

[bytheasea]

that sounds like a whale.

[ohboypokemon]

His face at 2:04 is pretty funny. ^_^

[PromisingAttempt]

next week, mike patton will play a woodchipper. see ya next time

[hazestudios]

What sort of recorder is Patton holding? It seems to be a field recorder of some kind.

[differentbeing]

i just had a flash back, THANXALOT...

[dirtyhandgesture]

Masami Akita needs one. BAD. haha.

[danzig5]

no no, he calls it art,

he's just realized that music is only a sound.

[AngeloNoel]

I want 300! I could make this noise forever.

[cholocharile]

i want one

[GoGoNards]

a sound only a select few can dig... not for me tho

[gali32731]

@GoGoNards I can dig. I think its awesome.

Fucking closed minded people thinking this is shit.

[LsdLia]

God, I love this sound! I'd sure enjoy to play it as loud and wild as possible. My favourite part: the sneeze. What fun they had! Laughing my head off.

[crazydharma]

They were experimental sound machines from the turn of the century. They aren't meant to sound "good"

[azzarogabbana]

what a bunch of shitty sounds...give him a black & Decker and let him make music from it

[ArgHamster]

@azzarogabbana You call it art, he calls it money. Do you like to lick money? Patton sure does. :D

[gtralisfr69]

@azzarogabbana I don't think you realize the history behind those machines and what the idea behind the futurist music movement is. I think you should read Luigi Russolo's Art of Noises letter. It might open up your mind a bit

[Infuzor]

For all as I care, Patton could record jis farts and I'd still listen to it.

[TheWhiteShaded]

> Admitting you're a tool

[Deadbeans]

LMFAO.

[milehily32]

Haha, best comment ever :)

[LsdLia]

@Infuzor :

I agree. Same for me. I don't care as long as it sounds strange/weird.

[TheWhiteShaded]

Well, I am Patton's bitch as well. I love everything he's released and look for countless of interviews all the time. Just listening to someones fart just doesn't really get me off, you know?

[LsdLia]

Sure. But might be a nice sound collage if it was in tune with the rest of the song ... ;-)

[oidige1977]

at 2:52 you can hear Mike saying "Cazzo!"..that is like "Oh F@ck!" in italian.. :)

[NostalgicProcrast]

Love him.

[Deloqua]

Those sounds would certainly keep me awake and probably give me a migraine too. Mmm....

[Thisismynameffs]

he'll propably do a record using those noises and some toy piano and his voice and its gonna be once again something fucking amazing that im gonna be stuck listening to it for like 3 years.That guy is unbeliavable

[ShaneyG1993]

@Thisismynameffs

He will even include the man sneezing in the chorus.

[lecrapauddejerri9]

@Thisismynameffs he already did haha it's called Pranzo Oritzo or something, but it wasnt that good :(

[smokescreencooper]

the man is a genius

[Lupus1993]

im sorry but i love mike patton, mondo cane and especially FNM (and a little of fantomas and PT) but what is this? I hope this machine is for sound effects only because this sounds like a table saw...

[mikeroephonics]

@Lupus1993 Well, he's recording everything with a portable stereo digital recorder. I'm sure we'll hear these tones in some capacity in future Patton releases.

[Fetrey]

Let's start a pool on the chances that Mike makes an entire album with this thing.

[eoniabstract]

I dont know what I like better the old creaky door sound at 2:04, or the combo of the next sound and the face he makes.

[Harrootjo]

Toen jij hier laatst avonds net weg was, kwam opeens Faith No More live op tv met Mikie

[PsionikMushroom]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn right. Except for about 50% of Peeping Tom. I thought that record was going to kick ass but it only stubbed its toe on ass.

[badfender223]

Very Cool. Kind of sounds like a big ol' bomber plane from a world war II movie!

[PsionikMushroom]

What the fuck is patton wearing?

[ELkuken]

CLOTHES! oh god, people on youtube are getting dumber by the minute

[PsionikMushroom]

Lol, no I'm talking about his little "device". Looks like a recorder but not one I've ever seen and the brand is a mystery to me aswell.

[ELkuken]

oh, wearing as in he's wearing the headphones for it? i was a little confused there.

[PsionikMushroom]

Yeah, that's what I was reffering to. No problem, I would've probably made the same mistake :p

[infamouskirch]

I've always had an interest in how these things sounded, hooray for futurism/dada

[murmar]

what is it for record instruments in Patton hands? I am looking something like that - cheap marked stereo portable recorder

[infamouskirch]

Zoom h2 i think

[Gezarie07]

Insanely fucking awesome. I WISH I could go to the final show.

[GB517]

The Intonarumori is hilarious, but Patton. is Hot!

I am sure he will cook up something delicious. Who is hungry?

[maynrdjkeenan]

0:52

Best sneeze ever.

[TheAceRaven]

lol ,that's hilarious

[robbiereindeerlover]

Oh wow I want one for my 21st! LOL Pattons awesome :)

[lyricfive]

Wow...a big piece of wood that makes farting sounds....brilliant!

[OrbitalBallroom]

They're unique and reproducible sound effects. I can easily see why Mike Patton would be interested in something like this with the type of music he makes.

[RedOnChrome]

am i spotting some white hair on pattons head?

[Torchbearer666]

Its just the lighting dude, it all black........:)

[cellcycleTV]

nice flatulatron, i give it 2.5 bowl movments and 1 hairball up.

[karlynfarris]

I like the sneeze better...

[jgarra]

Mike Patton really looks like a guido these days

[merrett]

Well he does speak fluent italian

[guillermodechile]

WTF

[TazAcida]

Nice!

[Syntaax]

Guttural!

[trinersify]

I bet that thing vibrates nicely

[trinersify]

must be a lot of rubber bands!!! Looks like a fun instrument.

[fullinmusic]

Mike Patton's a nice fellow.

[lmm85]

Rule 34 on wooden boxes and music.

Mike Patton is the best.

[damarei]

-1 for newfg

[lmm85]

+1 for self righteous douchebaggery.

[damarei]

I'm not the one spouting memes.

"HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT ME I NEED TO BELONG SOMEWHERE"

[lmm85]

Calling someone a newfag comes straight out of 4chan :p

We're on the same boat, pal.

[PATEv4]

/b/rothers!!

[damarei]

I hate you, and you should feel bad about yourself

[PATEv4]

/b/rothers!!

[TyK9293]

rules one and two, Pate.

[enisse93]

this is something that i've never seen before...

and I like it! yeaah !! ☺

[eyesocketlife]

What a bizarre instrument. I can't wait to hear what Patton manages to cook up!

[ELOdry]

Sounds like a kind of big whale. A big, sick, whale. Of metal. A big, sick, and metallic whale.

[russrussell666]

oh yeah baby - i vant one of these things

[GrooveMetalDude]

Hmmm, rather odd, but cool

[itscurbe]

those things sounds incredible.... very nice, patton