Talkin' bout Drillin'

OK, I don't really know how to do this the right way, so it might not work.

First, click on the youtube clip and mute the volume. Then press play on the youtube clip, then press play on the divshare playlist, and hopefully there won't be any lag and it will sink up and blow your mind all over your face. You will probably have to wait for them both to load and then restart them together. So much work, right? Ugh, I know.


I really don't know too much about either of these guys but here we go...

Bruno Spoerri was a German musician commissioned by the government to make music for factory workers. He used a lot of factory machinery within his compositions and created pretty fun musique concrete pieces that are very lively and playful. Which is why I like it, its musique concrete that doesn't take itself seriously and ultimately has a capitalist motive behind it that cheapens the artistry. It is both lowbrow and highbrow.

Len Lye, a New Zealand born experimental filmmaker and sculptor, is actually similar to Spoerri in a way. He spent his early career making films in association with the British General Post Office, creating television advertisements. It is an interesting notion, sneaking the avant-garde subtly into the general culture, seemingly without them realizing it. More on that in a future post. Anyways, this film was made without a camera, with abstract patterns and designs being painted on the film itself, so that is pretty awesome.

This is kind of cheating because it is very easy to take any avant-garde film and put rhythmic music over it, but I thought this clip sunk up with the two opening tracks of Bruno Spoerri's Gluckskugel pretty serendipitously.






Any German speakers out there know what Gluckskugel means? It is a very fun word to say.