Tag Archives: musique concrète

Protein Shoes by Beardman

Protein Shoes completes a week of Beardman’s weird and catchy answering-machine music, completing the whole set.

I Am Truly Fully Licensed Hairstylist by Beardman

I Am Truly Fully Licensed Hairstylist is, like Monday’s I’ve Been Delayed, weird and catchy music, sampling an answering machine. This is his week here! Here, the sample’s exuberant, and it makes the song uplifting and cheerful.

“Have an awesome day–buh-bye!”

I’ve Been Delayed by Beardman

I’ve Been Delayed is a weird and catchy song, experimental and also pop. The “singing” is samples from an answering machine, set to pop music.

A portion of this was looped as background music in a certain chatroom of Club Penguin, sort of a Disney MMORPG / social network for kids. So. This song is common in Club Penguin tribute videos.

The use of found audio for vocals makes this musique concrète! The melody emerging from the spoken word is, well, some keywords for searching are “the musicality of speech,” “prosody,” and “speech-melodies.” Radiolab covered this in 2007.