Experiments
Here in the Experiments area you'll find all the brow-furrowing, chin-stroking activities that The ECC has been up to. Mischievous MP3s, vituperous videos, cued and ready for instant consumption and sardonic satisfaction.
Note the categories to the left. If you want only music, click MP3s. If you want only videos, there's that too. You can also peek into our Testing Area to hear beta tests and unfinished experiments that we're playing around with. And if you're wondering just what the hell we were thinking when we made those experiments, you might find the answers in our blog. Recent additions to all four categories are listed below.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Meaningless Music
Monday, 26 May 2014 10:25
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2014.05.26: Meaningless Music
For this show we take Talking Heads' advice and Stop Making Sense with two hours of Meaningless Music! Senseless songs with lyrics ranging from made-up languages (Simlish, Cocteau Twins) to outright nonsense (Shooby Taylor, Mike Patton) -- songs that sound like they mean something, but don't.
Our playlist owes partial thanks to two Wikipedia lists: Songs With Nonsense Lyrics and the awesomely-named Non-Lexical Vocables In Music.
Download the episode, or listen to it now:
| Band: | Song: |
| Soul Funk | Ungst Func Slag Collision |
| Adriano Celentano | Prisencolinensiainciusol |
| The Band | Chest Fever |
| Magma | Hortz Fur Dëhn Stekëhn West |
| Typical Nirvana Fan | Smells Like Teen Spirit |
| Shooby Taylor | You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You |
| Mike Patton | Porno Holocost |
| The Kipper Kids | Bim Bam Boom |
| Frank Barber | Mah Nah Mah nah |
| Urban Trad | Sanomi |
| Ishtar | O Julissi |
| Swedish mock movie trailer | Planet Terror |
| Nitin Sawhney | The Conference |
| Katy Perry | Hot n Cold in Simlish |
| Black Eyed Peas | Shut Up in Simlish |
| Lily Allen | Smile in Simlish |
| The Mighty Boosh Crimps | Part 1 |
| Blaine L. Reininger | Glossolalia |
| The Mighty Boosh Crimps | Part 2 |
| El Muda | Macarron Chacarron |
| Gigi D'agostino | Bla Bla Bla |
| Cocteau Twins | Ivo |
| Eduard Khil (Mr. Trololo) | I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home (Trololo) |
| The Go! Team | Titanic Vandalism |
| The Go! Team | My World |
| The Go! Team | Grip Like a Vice (Burnt Clay remix) |
| Duplo Remote | Cusp |
| General Electrics | Central Park |
Want more? Pop on over to The Sound Of Plaid archives where you can find over a hundred full episodes of our radio show, ready for you to download or listen to whenever you want. Free.
P-Raw Wants A Cookie
Friday, 20 March 2009 10:02
P-Raw does a drag show to our "I Want A Cookie". It's great! Thanks to Puzzling Evidence for sharing this:
Wanna see our video for it?
Artistic License
Monday, 21 April 2008 08:26
NEW: Online ordering!
If you're like me, you're constantly getting asked things like, "Why on earth did you paint that toaster purple and install it on the ceiling?" or "Why do you drive a hearse that looks like a zebra?" Of course, the answer is all too simple: I'm an artist. I'm taking license to make this weirdness. It's called Artistic License.
But somehow it always felt like a hollow statement. After all, I didn't have an art degree, let alone a physical "artistic license", whatever that would be. But an answer was close at hand -- dang it, I'm an artist, a creator! When the world doesn't fit, I change the world! And so I created my very own Artistic License. I more or less yoinked the style of a Cali driver's license but added things like the medium of the artist, and I made a checklist of "Artistic and Behavior Codes" on the back. I also put an unexplained, mysterious "TYPE: X". Here's a zoom so you can see it all.
I've been extremely happy with the results. Now when I show up at art openings, I just flash my ID -- I'm an artist! More free wine, please! Even at clubs I present my license as my identification... because, by gum, I'm an artist, just the kind of artist who would be fully licensed. Although this is not legal identification in the government's eyes, I have presented it on many occasional to security personnel who want "valid ID". More times than not, they take it! So, it must be valid.
How about you? Are there people in your life who just don't get it: Parents, unhip friends, stodgy authority figures, and humorless conservative talk showhosts? "Oh c'mon," you tell them , "It's Artistic License!" (brace yourself, here comes the shill...)
Now YOU can carry ID to back that claim up. $20 buys you your very own US Artistic License with your photo and info on it. It is laminated and looks a wholelotta legal. Interested? Order one at this web page!
And yes, for your information, I do have the authority to issue artistic licenses. Do you wanna see my license?
- TradeMark G.
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