marcusharwell.net » bush http://marcusharwell.net Where rough drafts are a way of life. Tue, 04 May 2010 17:33:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Henry Hey Sets Final Bush Press Conference to Music http://marcusharwell.net/2009/02/henry-hey-sets-final-bush-press-conference-to-music/ http://marcusharwell.net/2009/02/henry-hey-sets-final-bush-press-conference-to-music/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:50:18 +0000 Marcus http://marcusharwell.net/?p=549 This is amazing work. Jazz pianist Henry Hey did an outstanding job creating a song out of spoken words. We don’t often think about it, but words have musical pitch (which is obvious to anybody in China, where they use pitch & tone as an integral part of language). Hey used the pitch of George W. Bush’s words as the melody and crafted something fantastically cool.

But Steve Vai has done this a lot, notably in Ya-Yo Gakk, a 1995 track using his son Julian’s nonsense babble.

But I first heard him doing it a decade earlier, on So Happy, from 1984′s Flex-Able. It doesn’t hold up so well, but it’s really an experiment, and not meant to be a pop single.

Steve Vai – So Happy

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