SCREAM CHOIR
January 24, 2015 6:05 PM   Subscribe

I thought this was ridiculous......until I realized that Artaud might have loved it. So maybe it's great. (SLYT)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
posted by crazylegs (16 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
God bless them.
posted by Evstar at 6:11 PM on January 24, 2015 [1 favorite]


Love it! Probably the only type of choir i would actually go and listen to.

Have to say though, my two kids (both males) can scream decibels louder and higher than all of these "professionals".
posted by greenhornet at 6:40 PM on January 24, 2015


Next time, with special guest Jamie Lee Curtis!
posted by xingcat at 6:47 PM on January 24, 2015 [1 favorite]


Which one is Wilhelm?
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:52 PM on January 24, 2015 [2 favorites]


This? or This?
posted by cjorgensen at 7:00 PM on January 24, 2015


So uhhh... I hate how I've now discovered that YouTube, in android lollipop, keeps playing in the background.
posted by chasles at 7:04 PM on January 24, 2015


As a huge fan of Isabelle Adjani's unbelievable fantastic freak out in Possession (audio only, can't find a link to the video), this was pretty great. If they put out an album, I would buy it. That said, seeing video of them performing kind of dampened the illusion of true scream catharsis, in that they seemed to be having a grand ol' time. As they should be, probably. It's just that, visually, it lacked the sense that real pain was being exorcised.

(Not that I wish pain on anyone - but, for example, Yoko Ono's "John, John (Let's Hope for Peace)" on Live Peace in Toronto 1969 exudes a grueling sense of existential terror, as does the Isabelle Adjani performance. There's something supremely comforting - in the "I am not alone" sense - in the resonance of another's a truly honest, voluntarily given scream.)
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 7:38 PM on January 24, 2015 [2 favorites]


Great stuff! I wonder what it sounded like from inside the church.
posted by carter at 7:47 PM on January 24, 2015


I've done this--we called it a Yelling Choir. Good times.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 8:22 PM on January 24, 2015


this should be the new Rickroll.

I sat all the way through, I was thoroughly entertained.
posted by bobdow at 9:47 PM on January 24, 2015


Post-Modern Munch.
posted by CrowGoat at 10:02 PM on January 24, 2015


This is a total scream.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:36 AM on January 25, 2015


Phil Minton's Feral Choir
posted by Joseph Gurl at 1:55 AM on January 25, 2015


That Isabelle Adjani link is amazing, SmileyChewtrain. Agree that the visuals didn't match the rest of the performance.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 4:27 AM on January 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


That looked fun, where was it?
posted by oceanjesse at 8:16 AM on January 25, 2015


You can hear the grand old time even without the visuals. These are the sounds of people yelling for fun, not a cathartic outburst.
posted by idiopath at 10:33 AM on January 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


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