TAKE A SHIT ON A MICROPHONE WITH MIKE PATTON
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Vince NeilsteinEver hear the phrase “<so and so person> could take a shit on a microphone and people would still fawn over it.”? I often hear it applied to Radiohead, and it’s kind of true… Thom Yorke could literally record himself leaving a stinking, putrid pile of diarrhea on a microphone and the press would laud it as absolute genius and hail it as groundbreaking [full disclosure: I love Radiohead]. Lately it seems like Mike Patton is approaching the “shit on a microphone” status of musical godliness… it doesn’t matter at all what the guy does and people drool like it’s revolutionary. And since the guy releases like 6 albums a year in styles that are all over the map, this happens quite often [full disclosure: I love Mike Patton].
Anyway, check out this video the lasses over at Reign in Blonde posted of Patton playing “a contraption called a intonarumori: a noise making thing-a-ma-bobber from the WWII era that was used to mimic the sounds of machines.” Apparently there are shows scheduled in both San Francisco and New York at which “artists” will be playing this “instrument” live. Sounds like it’d be right up Gary Suarez’s alley.
-VN
Right up Gary’s alley….but if Mike Patton were playing it, you’d totally go. lmao
Oh, and I still don’t know what the fuck Oceano is.
whoa! hold on a second people! is Sunn O))) any better than this?!?!?! it’s the exact same bullshit!!!!
I see SunnO))) mentioned!
TIME FOR ANOTHER \\\MAYTAG PLUG!
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Using refrigerators to make metal = awesomeness
And it’s all on their website for FREE download
Are you still pimping that stupid shit?
Of course. My hatred of Sunn O))) (and my love for the stupid genius of \\\Maytag) is just that great.
So any time someone mentions Sunn O))), you’re going to plug \\\MAYTAG? I think I’m going to like this game…
Yep! Any time they’re mentioned…
I could see this as added texture, but just this alone is boring.
But yeah, I’d pay to see Mike Patton fucking around with it, just because.
I agree to an extent. Besides FNM and Mr. Bungle I don’t really like most of Patton’s stuff. Peeping Tom is okay…
I know a girl who would buy an album that consisted only of recorded, Eddie Vedder farts.
….. ‘the fuck are we talkin about?
About 65% of Mike Pattons projects are vastly over rated. It is true, i think he really could shit on a microphone and get 5 stars in some magazines.
Yeah that’s the thing about genious, rarely is it respected or appreciated in its time.
Oops I spelled genius wrong didn’t I.
First thing I thought of: “Well, sup sunn o)))”
I wonder why in a day and age when no one even pays for music, people are offended when artists experiment. That’s what this is, experimentation and that’s what artists have to do to nurture their craft. Besides, he’s not putting out a record of this shit, he’s not touring behind it, and he’s not taking your fucking turn, dude. He was commissioned to write a piece for a concert featuring these instruments performed one time to a crowd of artsy-fartsy San Franciscans at a MUSEUM for god’s sake.
Oh and by the way, I saw it and I have to say, yeah, it was kinda fucking boring. Patton’s piece was OK but nothing to write home about. Luciano Cessa, who curated the event, wrote an amazingly moving piece for these instruments that saved the night for me.
THE FUCKING END…
“I’m not buying it a fucking beer”
And I agree absolutely, however it really appeals to me individually.
Well put.
+1 for the Lebowski reference, Dude.
I don’t care that shit is the most awesome shit of all time. From the beginning of time right up to right now as you’re reading this. I am totally building one of these asap.
…and if those machines rusted, the grease in his hair could be used in a pinch to fix the squeak.
I would actually buy the mic Thom York shat on
Oh and Mike Patton’s shitty mic too
If he was just learning about it to write a piece on it, then does anybody know why he’s recording it too? Maybe for weird sounds on a new project?
always in san francisco, this oddball crap.
I liked it. Very soothing I could fall asleep listening to that. Though somehow I get the impression, from the look and sound of the instrument, that there would be an odor of sawdust about.
Mike Patton seems to have a genuine passion for music, regardless if this is for the listener or himself. So its no surprise that he would show interest in intonarumori after all mike has used noise in fantomas as well as dada-esque nonsense verse. Interestingly there is an original recording of Luigi Russolo and the intonarumori available at ubu http://www.ubu.com/sound/dada.html
Its not exactly easy listening and everyone will probably scream gay, but hey dude was just trying to make something new outside of traditional classical composition. Plus most of the instruments were made to create sounds of industrial machinery which is fucking metal!
Nail on fucking head, man. If you listen to anything with any amount of distortion at all, then you must pay respect to Russolo. I mean he made these things in 1913! Surprise he didn’t get arrested for “polluting young minds” or some shit.
He’s under no obligation to write a tune – and I’m under no obligation to like it.
Still hoping for the Wolfmother covers album though.
That damn contraption sounds like the Cain robot from “RoboCop 2″…..
I do genuinely love pretty much everything that patton has put out, the odd exeption but i’m afraid that i’m one of thoes guys that will pretty much buy anything he does.The guy just gets it right most of the time.
Well, I’m a fan of Patton and most of the stuff he’s done. Some of it I don’t really like, his album with Merzbow, the collaboration with the Xecutioners was ok, etc. But in addition to FNM and Bungle, I think Fantomas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom are all good. But Patton has already put out his album of shitting on the mic before those last three bands I mentioned were even around. It’s called ‘Adult Themes for Voice’ Just him fucking around with a 4 track recorder or something like that. You can kind of see how it developed into Fantomas.
Anyway, the machines remind me of this site…
http://www.oddmusic.com/
OOO HAI GUYS I JUST OBTAINED A RARE RECORDING OF KERRY KING SHITTING IN HIS COLOSTOMY BAG ITS TOTALLY FUCKIN’ KILLER SOUNDS LIKE GOD HATES US ALL I’LL SELL IT FOR $500