Ursonate / Ursonography Excerpts (2005)

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

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.

he didnt memorize it

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!

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

LOVED IT!!!!!!
It seems inappropriate to use words here, sorry.
bababa goooooooo spga, mamamama prrrrrrrrrrr
thanks Golan.. Thanks Jaap.

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!

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

Hurz!