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Uploaded by on Mar 16, 2008

Karl-Heinz Stockhausen's 1956 piece 'Gesang Der Junglinge' (Song of the Children) analysed song verses into their elementary phonetic components and deployed electronically generated aperiodic sound - more commonly known as 'white noise'. The Disabled Avant-Garde also generate white noise in this piece by varying the syne-waves produced by a loudly whistling boiling kettle. As with Stockhausen, a vocalist intones 'inside' the white noise (but using a different song - something by Roy Orbison). The total effect produced is to provide the listener with no idea whatsoever of what it must sound like to be profoundly deaf'.

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  • Brilliant!! (and very funny too - Noel Fielding eat your heart out!)

  • this concert is sponsored by Aspirin!

  • what is this?!? O.O

  • AJAJAJAJAJAJA VAYA CACHO PARIDA MACHO XDDD

  • MI CEREBRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

  • Not bad, I like the tea kettle whistle -- especially the loop at the end -- but the music is "Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished" by Animal Collective!

  • hehehehehehehehehe

    

  • Pretty disturbing.

  • Why are they ruining one of my favorite songs?

  • smack that little bastard wi a bat

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