Monday, February 7, 2011

Furious Pig & Whitehead

"I DON'T LIKE YOUR FACE" - FURIOUS PIG


This 1980 A-capella number is done by a London cult sensation that put their main musical focus on developing a form of intense vocal chanting that ranges on various choreographed levels throughout the clip. It is hard to understand any actual language coming from the scit scat piece however I found an odd obsession with the emotions conveyed in broken outbursts and man-made sound effects. The non-linear narrative exemplifies the feeling of frustration one has when they find a deep disgust for a person. It is hard to explain oneself when sharing such opposition to a human being's born appearance, yet I feel that the song is not only shooting towards they aesthetics of a the shamed person but the stomach turning feeling the artists witness when they spot the disfavored body.



"EVA CAN I STAB BATS IN A CAVE" - GREGORY WHITEHEAD


A looping play on words is the narrative for this 1984 distorted audio clip. From just listening to the loop I was able to catch on the the statement being a reversal of itself. Whether read from left or from the right "Eva Can I Stab Bats in a Cave?" has the same phonetic sound. The clip chronologically gets easier to understand and each statement is separated by an exasperated, scratchy breath. Towards the end you can hear the repetition of vocal sounds as the sentence is said correctly and quickly looped backwards with a mirrored audio.

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