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Jabberwocky
3 minutes 47 seconds
Being a long time lover of Lewis Carroll's works of nonsense literature, it was only natural for me to do a version of this poem once I got my hands on a recording studio in college!
I took great care to ensure the first part was exactly right by speaking the words in each line in reverse order, starting with the last line and going backwards, then playing the tape of that backwards.
Performed on Moog synthesizer, effects boxes, my voice, and 8-track tape recorder. Best listened to with headphones...and some 420!
By the way..."Musique Concrète" is just a fancy French way of saying "a bunch of really weird sounds".
Words
(Alice: "Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again." )
Words by Lewis Carroll, "Alice Through The Looking Glass"; translation of first paragraph provided by Humpty Dumpty.
(P) 1982
Hippotaur
3 minutes 47 seconds
Being a long time lover of Lewis Carroll's works of nonsense literature, it was only natural for me to do a version of this poem once I got my hands on a recording studio in college!
I took great care to ensure the first part was exactly right by speaking the words in each line in reverse order, starting with the last line and going backwards, then playing the tape of that backwards.
Performed on Moog synthesizer, effects boxes, my voice, and 8-track tape recorder. Best listened to with headphones...and some 420!
By the way..."Musique Concrète" is just a fancy French way of saying "a bunch of really weird sounds".
Words
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sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawT`
ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD
,sevogorob eht erew ysmim llA
.ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnA(Alice: "Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again." )
JABBERWOCKY
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
(It was four o'clock in the afternoon – the time when you begin BROILING things for dinner – and the lithe and slimy creatures which are something like badgers and something like lizards and something like corkscrews)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
(Did go round and round like a gyroscope and made holes like a gimblet in the the grass-plot round a sun-dial; )
All mimsy were the borogoves,
(All flimsy and miserable were the thin shabby-looking birds with their feathers sticking out all round like a live mop,)
And the mome raths outgrabe.
(And the lost green pigs made a sound something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.)
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.Words by Lewis Carroll, "Alice Through The Looking Glass"; translation of first paragraph provided by Humpty Dumpty.
(P) 1982
Hippotaur
Category Music / Other Music
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 6.94 MB
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