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More from Peter Ablinger (of the child-voiced piano): This time, he’s taken a letter from Schoenberg and done his piano-vocoder magic with it. (Basically running a spectrum analysis and using the keys of the piano to play back the frequency data, like a lo-res vocoder.) It seems like there are some extra notes in there too, perhaps a musical quote from Schoenberg? I’m not sure.

It’s much harder to decipher without subtitles than the other one, and even with the text, I had a hard time following along:

Mister:
You…. In spite of my protest,
you have published
Leibowitz’ performance
of my Ode to Napoleon
with a woman voice,
which I find
terrible.
(…behind the orchestra…)
I can only tell you now,
that you will
hear from me.
You will, I can tell you,
you will regret this act
severely.
I will
be busy to help you
to be ruined
by this
what I will do….
(Some of the instruments … in small….)
You are not only a bugger …
You are not only a man who disregards an artist’s wishes,
his artistic beliefs,
you are also a man
who does not care
to keep a contract.
You know that you signed a contract,
according to which
you have
to account to me regularly.
You must have sold
quite
a number of records
of my Violin Phantasy,
of the Trio,
and other things which you…
but which you issued without my consent.
I tell you,
you will hear from me also about these things,
and I hope it will cost you very much money.

Yours…

You can see a video with the text and audio lined up here [.mov link].

(via Rhizome)