The article described Varèse's percussion composition Ionisation, produced by EMS Recordings, as "a weird jumble of drums and other unpleasant sounds".
How Chet Faker Turns Weird Field Recordings Into Songs.
In response to my query, Emily said, "The overlaying of jazz (or any kind of music) with animal recordings is a bit weird.
While taking lessons with David Takeno and Michaela Comberti, she co-founded the Palladian and Florilegium ensembles, and made around six recordings a year – Bach, Handel, "weird early stuff".
They play special recordings of viper, or weed songs, with weird ritualistic themes.
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Many consist of simple a cappella recordings of the artist's untrained, but inoffensive, singing voice, played in weird and wonderful locations, like a Tesco supermarket in Manchester, Helsinki Central Station or the Acropolis.
Those first fabulous recordings: the brazen New York comedy and heartbreak-kid longing, the voice whose weird clarity had something in common with electronic music, singing Harold Arlen, Fats Waller, Leonard Bernstein and then, thanks to "Funny Girl," giving us lessons in living theater history.
Followers of these farout Oregon rockers might have noticed them straying into more coherent, songwriterly territory on their last album, but this new collection of concert recordings and radio sessions steps firmly back into the realm of the thoroughly weird.
I play stuff that's weird not because I'm trying to be weird, but because these recordings are sublime and eloquent and important.
