 Words
assembled by Rocco Tanica
Conceived and executed by Sergio Messina at Giardino d'Inferno in
2006/9
Rocco and I are good friends, and that is rare and precious enough.
What's more, we like what we do, and especially I am a fan of almost
anything he does. When I first heard his Corti, made for
italian FM station Radio Deejay, I was startled: I've been using
voices and spoken word for many years, but I had never heard anything
so smart, poetic and funny.
One of the things I'm good at is editing words to music. So I figured
I could remix some of his Corti into a song, and here it
is. I made a few versions of this tune, one with guitars only, then
another more danceable, but they didn't quite do the job. It's only
when I found the right combination of loop/beat/sound that it all
came together, still bouncy but also funny in a cartoonish way.
For those of you who don't speak italian, this is a cutup of documentary
voice-overs both nonsensical and surreal, as it opens new possibilities
to evolution, cross breeding and even the basic law of physics.
Special thanks to Richard Strauss and Stanley Kubric.
For a number of reasons (including a sample to be cleared and a
whole © issue to be solved) this one is for listening only. |
