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Everything Is an Instrument
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Music has a long tradition behind it, and with any tradition comes traditions of form and style. For music, especially codified, formal styles like Classical Music, there are certain things that are considered musical instruments and certain things which aren't. For example, you wouldn't be surprised to hear a violin playing music in a symphony, but if you were to hear a chainsaw being revved to play a well-known melody, you would be surprised. Many people have found the idea appealing, and make an effort to make musical sounds out of things that wouldn't necessarily be considered musical. Body noises like belches and flatulence are popular, as are hitting household items like pots and pans to produce rhythms or melodies, or nudging animals so that they make sounds that resemble music. Whatever is used, it's something removed from the norm. Sometimes it's done for comedic effect, like if a drummer drops their drumsticks and then they grab a wooden spoon to keep playing. Often it's used by serious artists who want to experiment, because they have found that weird instruments make good music. Even though Classical Music is strict about the rules for old music (Mozart, Beethoven, etc) , if you are an avant-garde composer doing experimental modern music, you could write a symphony for orchestra and pots and pans. Improvised instruments are often a part of folk music and traditional music. Centuries ago, poor people who wanted to make music often had to use everyday items. There is a weird and wonderful world of folk musicians who play everyday items. In Canada, some folk musicians play rhythms with two spoons. Many folk groups create percussion by hitting everyday items like a suitcase or wooden box. Some folk musicians play the handsaw. Take a violin bow, bend your saw, and stroke the edge with the bow. It eats the horsehair like nothing else, but you can roughly reproduce the sound of a wolf howling.note You will occasionally hear the musical saw in bluegrass albums: or else an electric guitar doing an imitation of this instrument. Other odd instruments include the glass harmonica: which is based upon the common practice of stroking glass rims with a wet finger. This instrument gives you a large selection of glasses suspended over a bin of water, allowing you to play it similarly to an organ. note Unlike most improvised instruments, this one was actually taken somewhat seriously by Classical musicians in the 1700s. Unfortunately though, the glass harmonica is unreliable even on a good day. Most pieces written with it in mind are more frequently played on handbells. Some musicians do still play the glasses though, and occasionally this technique will show up in jazz or experimental music. Some of these instruments have even gone mainstream: the steel drum is a key instrument in Caribbean music. If it makes a sound, then there's a good chance someone at least tried to make it into an instrument. The Blue Danube Waltz is very popular for this kind of treatment. Super-Trope of Trash-Can Band and Rhythm Typewriter. See also Instrumental Weapon, Serendipitous Symphony and Kazoos Mean Silliness. If they actually build an instrument out of it, it's a Bizarre Instrument. |
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Searching for an "urban" sound in the soundtrack of inFAMOUS, the composers hit tubas with wire brushes and plucked bungie cords against bass drums, along with the cellist making his notes wind up and down like an engine. The result sounds appropriately atmospheric. | |
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Genshin Impact: One of Kazuha's idle animations has him play a tune by blowing on a leaf. | |
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The percussion on the third verse and closing of "455 Rocket" by Kathy Mattea is provided by some of the session musicians and Mattea slapping their knees. | |
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Some remixes on Overclocked Remix use farts for music. | |
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Towards the end of the opening titles of the Punky Brewster cartoon, Punky and her pals are playing music using a broom, an aluminum washtub and other items. | |
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One clip submitted to America's Funniest Home Videos featured a man watching Jeopardy! and playing the Jeopardy! Thinking Music with a bicycle pump and manualism (making flatulent noises by cupping his hands together). | |
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In Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan, Noogie plays the manatee bile sacs like bongos, and playing them wildly can cause the bile to rise up. | |
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The Bonzo Dog Band was very much of this trope - one instrumental has the call-out "New horizons in sound now as Roger plays a solo on the electric shirt collar!" | |
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The first part of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" also features a glass harp (rubbing wet fingers against the rims of wineglasses.) | |
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Burnistoun: A recurring gag is a tension-filled situation (i.e. someone encountering hoodlums destroying his car) turning into a musical mashup of rhythmic sounds, which turns out to be being actively mixed by DJ Jesus in heaven. | |
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Cartilage Head of Achewood fame uses what is probably a cello bow to play a large saw. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer munching "The Blue Danube" whilst in space. Nelson Muntz does another version in a talent contest: He has a row of nerds, he wedgied them to create the notes. |
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Appropriately, Kacey Musgraves' "Biscuits" has the percussionist play a biscuit pan. | |
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The opening theme of Are You Being Served? started with cash register sounds forming a melody. This was a couple years before Pink Floyd's "Money". | |
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In Horrible Histories' "Cowboy Song", Mike performs a "solo thanks to beans". | |
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In Um Jammer Lammy, Lammy can use Mind over Matter on anything to use it as a guitar. | |
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Early Looney Tunes shorts featured Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid making music with whatever he could get his hands on, including shower spray as a harp, a wooden bridge as a xylophone and a Daschund as an accordion. The later cartoon "Hobo Gadget Band" has the unnamed hobo and his buddies entering a radio talent contest where they perform a song about themselves and how they use anything to make music. |
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Joey D'Auria — the second and last Bozo on WGN-TV — did a bit called "Doctor Flamo" on The Gong Show of the pig organ/mouse organ/Muppaphone variety: he held his hand over candles of vaious heights, his own screams of pain were the melody of the tune in question ("Love in Bloom" as I recall). | |
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King of Jazz: One act features a guy playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" with a bicycle pump. | |
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Some of the drumming on "Katie Wants a Fast One" by Steve Wariner is provided by trash cans. | |
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Travis Tritt's song "Dixie Flyer", the last track on his debut album Country Club, has the drummer play a folding chair. | |
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Pinocchio: In the song "Always let your conscience be your guide", Jiminy bounces on a saw blade, which makes squeaky sounds with the music. | |
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The boss theme "Death and Honor" from MadWorld uses a chainsaw for counterharmony in the chorus. | |
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Mr. Bean: In "The Return of Mr Bean", Mr Bean plays "Happy Birthday" to himself in a restaurant, by tapping the glasses and plates on the table, with some success. | |
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The video for Æther Realm's "TMHC" features the band and its fans playing and singing along to the song on whatever's available, such as opening and closing cabinet doors, using drumsticks on a baffled-looking cat, and beating on waffles placed on a drum kit. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: "Music Land": In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, musical saws can be seen◊ in the King Of Jazz's court. "Symphony Hour": Mickey Mouse conducts a flawless rendition of Von Suppe's "Light Cavalry Overture" while auditioning for a radio show. Before the big broadcast, Goofy accidentally drops all the instruments down the elevator, and the performance ends up sounding like Spike Jones. In "Steamboat Willie", after getting a goat that ate some sheet music to play "Turkey in the Straw", he proceeds to play out the melody on as many things as he can find. He runs out of inanimate things fairly quickly, and then proceeds to play it on a yowling cat (because he's pulling its tail), a duck, a group of feeding piglets by pulling their tails, the mother pig the piglets were feeding like an accordion and finally the teeth of a cow as if they were a xylophone. |
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The third episode of The Muppets Mayhem begins with Animal playing with a Simon toy. The rest of the Electric Mayhem use the packagaing for their snacks and the beaded curtains in the van to jam out to the beeps from the toy. | |
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"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" from Abbey Road by The Beatles. | |
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An episode of House of Mouse has Mickey and Baby Shelby playing "The Blue Danube". Mickey plays on Shelby's shell like a xylophone, and Shelby does "ha ha"s to do the notes. | |
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The 1970 album Songs of the Humpback Whale was the first album released to the public featuring nothing but sounds of singing whales. At the time many people had thought whales were mute, but the record actually showed them to be majestic and magnificent creatures whose vocal sounds are an amazing and wonderful listening experience. It quickly became an enormous bestseller, and helped people to realize that these intelligent creatures ought to be protected from hunters, thus inspiring the "Save The Whales" movement. | |
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In Demon: The Fallen, a true name can be this as one of the novels shows. One demon's true name is the sound of a hundred crows cawing "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. | |
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Beck: In his earlier years, he often employed a Gameboy to make noise music. During one tour, he'd play "Clap Hands" on acoustic guitar, while his backing band sat around a small dinner table and provided percussion by rhythmically banging on silverware with utensils. The studio version released as a B-Side uses more normal instrumentation though. "Corvette Bummer" seems to use a sample from a motion-activated Halloween toy, which would produce a distinctive, theremin-esque wail when activated. The intro to "Soul Sucking Jerk (Reject)" includes a short lo-fi drum loop that has been sourced to a battery operated toy boombox. |
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Complusive clubber Tyres from Spaced imagined a dance track from the phone ringing, the kettle boiling, the clock ticking and other incidental sounds. Later, he's dancing to the beeping on pedestrian crossing. | |
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Sawtooth from Freefall once performed "Orbital Bombardment in D Minor". | |
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A Muppet Viral Video had the Swedish Chef performing "Popcorn", with the popping noises being made by actual popcorn, while the Chef accompanied it on wine glasses, a kitchen knife played like a saw, melons, pans, and a blender. | |
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Animaniacs: The opening sequence includes Yakko xylophonizing the heads of various characters whom the Warners torment in the course of the series. Several skits feature Wakko as "The Great Wakkortti," who performs various pieces of classical music by belching. |
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Sesame Street: Lampshaded in the song "What Makes Music?", about how tunes can be played on everything from rubber bands to old tin cans. | |
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Car horns and toy horns are also heard during pieces from Burnt Weeny Sandwich and "City Of Tiny Lites" from Sheik Yerbouti. | |
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Guns N' Roses' "Dead Horse" from Use Your Illusion features a nutcracker. | |
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The Muppet Show: A neat little skit set in a library, with Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and company playing it by coughing, rustling papers, tapping pencils, etc., and a librarian trying to shush them. Failing in this, she appoints herself conductor. The "beloved" Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphone, made up of talking fuzzballs who go "Ow!" in tune as Marvin hits them with a mallet. When Buddy Rich guest starred, he performed an extended percussion piece from his dressing room to his drum kit. In his own words, "When I play a theatre, I play the theatre!" |
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Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: Buddy’s “gift� in “Happy Birthday House!� is a conglomeration of wooden boards and metal pipes which he proceeds to play with his drumsticks; this was inspired by how Louis had spend the majority of the episode attempting to stop two obnoxious noises the House Of Jam had developed: Creaky floorboards and banging pipes. In “Billie’s Biggest Fan�, Annie The Handfan is the guest “instrument� of the episode, and her “performance� consists of opening and closing herself to the beat. The episode’s live-action segment takes this to the extreme, as Special Guest Bob Scott drums on everything- an empty instrument case, a chair, the floor, himself... “Super Sounds� inverts the usual setup of this trope- rather than drumming on random objects, Buddy and Krupa try to find their “new sound� by drumming on themselves using Everything As A Drumstick- brushes (which is an actual drum technique, for the record), spoons, pencils, even chicken drumsticks. The guest instrument of “Phantom Of The Jam� is Herschel, a ghostly musical saw. The episode’s live-action musician, Gene Hardy, naturally also plays the saw, and in the first live-action segment he even gives the episode’s live-action kids (non-sharp) saws for them to try to play themselves (by hitting them with pencils, for some reason, bringing back the spirit of “Super Sounds�). (The episode’s second live-action segment starts with more of Hardy’s saw-playing but quickly devolves into the kids Banging Pots and Pans). |
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In Return of the Jedi, the Ewok celebration scene at the end shows one Ewok using sticks hitting stormtrooper helmets as a drum set. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: In "The Treeborhood Parranda," Sammy and Louisa make their own instruments for the parranda. They make bongos from bowls, a güiro from a squash, and use tap-dancing shoes for castanets. | |
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His fascination with one of the first samplers, the Synclavier, led to bizarre songs consisting of orgasmic screams, rubbed glass, sneezes, like on his album Jazz from Hell". | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The song "Camelot" has a brief section of one knight playing a tune on the helmets of several other knights. | |
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Homestuck: Aradia's theme song, "Temporal Shenanigans", includes a metronome to mimic the sound of a ticking clock. "The March of the Batterwitch" uses a kettle pot boiling and other sounds common in a kitchen to make a fitting theme for the diabolical baking CEO Betty Crocker. |
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"Music Land": In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, musical saws can be seen◊ in the King Of Jazz's court. | |
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In Go West (1940), Rusty manages to rig a Native American weaving loom into a makeshift harp, this being the set-up for Harpo's obligatory harp-solo. | |
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Canadian band Walk Off the Earth have used cardboard tubes, water bottles, and a BB gun as instruments. | |
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In the PSP remake of Persona, one of the tracks (Battle ~ Tesso) uses, among other things, car horns and mewling cats for "instruments". It's surprisingly melodic. | |
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The Late Show often had these kinds of acts — one had glass soft drink bottles which they stuck their fingers in and popped out for the sound. | |
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The drums of one of their most famous songs, "Personal Jesus", was created by jumping on their instrument cases. The song also features a bridge made from rhythmic breathing, sampled from the Title Track to Kate Bush's The Dreaming. | |
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The Way Things Work: The section "Sound and music" begins with a story of "playing the mammoth", in which musicians try to make music from a tethered mammoth by thumping its belly, plucking its stretched tail, and tapping its tusks; and the mammoth joins in, by making sounds from its trunk. | |
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The intro to "Money" from The Dark Side of the Moon has cash registers, coins and a paper ripping forming a melody. | |
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "Telephone And Rubber Band", which is played on a telephone and a rubber band (and strings). | |
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The soundtrack for Conker's Bad Fur Day had a track called Pooland, that was a a jazz song played with... ahem... colon trumpets. | |
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In Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz originally called for two bells to be played during the final movement for the ominous effect. We do not mean the tube bells that are prevalent in orchestras, nor do we mean hand bells. He actually meant for two giant church bells tuned to C and G to be taken down and played by two percussionists with unwieldy sledgehammers. Most productions nowadays just use tube bells, but there are a few who hold true to the original. | |
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Lee Brice also "plays" an anvil on "Drinking Class". | |
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Babes in Toyland originally opened its third act with a novelty instrumental titled "In the Toymaker's Workshop," including parts for eight different noise-making toys: rooster, cuckoo, dog, cow, duck, rattle, baby and whistle. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons module X2 Castle Amber. The Amber family turned eighty-eight people with singing ability into stone statues. When each key on a keyboard is pressed, the corresponding statue will sing one note, allowing the user to play music. | |
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The Triplets of Belleville. Cabaret jazz played on newspapers, vacuum cleaners, and bicycle spokes? Sold. | |
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"Ah I See" by De Staat features a vehicle horn. | |
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Two people playing the Harry Potter theme using a washing machine and dryer. | |
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The Beatles: A Running Gag of Ringo Starr playing the drums on things besides drums: skulls, sea creatures, etc. All four Beatles use different pieces of modern art as instruments in "Twist and Shout". |
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The Big Garage: In the tool segment of “Sounds Funny To Me�, the Saw is able to play herself by bending her blade. | |
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Negativland was (and still is) an experimental music band known for using various non-musical sounds as an integral part of their music, though with some songs the "music" designation is questionable. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch featuring the show Anything Can Be Music; which makes a song out of "a guinea-pig realizing it's about to be put down", "a boy begging not to be caned", "a horse being kicked in the testicles", "a middle class family separated in a cave system", and a prisoner saying the actual words "Anything Can Be Music". | |
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In one video of Super Mario World, a series of hack-created stages are set up so that Mario's movements (automatic due to the design of the stage) play various videogame themes. | |
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One of Pepe Deluxé's guiding principles is "The more work you put into a sound or recording, the more you will like it,", and this inspires them to seek out bizarre instruments and studio equipment, or to build their own. Their 2012 album Queen of the Wave includes a Tesla Coil synthesizer solo (performed by guest musician Arc Attack), and a song, "In the Cave", performed on the Great Stalacpipe Organ (which produces sound by striking hollowed cave stalactites with rubber solenoids). In fact, while "In the Cave" is hardly the first song performed on the Organ, it is the first song ever composed specifically for the Stalacpipe Organ. The recording equipment includes the Spectrumizer and Optical Spectrum Analyzer (designed by A.D. Conrow, they convert audio signals into light waves, separate these light waves into separate frequencies, then convert the light back into audio) and the Aether Modulator (a device that converts sound to magnetism and vice versa; it was inspired by Thomas Edison's research into communicating with the dead, and built by Pepe Deluxé themselves). According to their online supplementary material, Pepe Deluxé also claimed to use a Psychical Predictor (another of Conrow's inventions, which allegedly tapped into the aether and displayed the spirit's answers to questions: "yes", "no", or "ask later"), but they have yet to explain how they got music from this device. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Phineas and Ferb on a holiday reformatory school in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", starting a tune by brushing the floor with a toothbrush. An episode features the aptly named "Marty the Rabbit Boy and his Musical Blender" playing "The Blue Danube" on well, a blender. Sherman of "Love Händel" performs "I Ain't Got Rythm" in a library by stamping and thumping books, accompanied by the boys and background people rattling cups, slamming books and clapping. Candace performs "Queen of Mars" on... her martian subjects. She later complains that "Every part of their bodies is an instrument, and they never invented music! Martians are lame!" |
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Billie Eilish and her brother and producer Fineas tend to record interesting sounds around them to use in songs - "Bury A Friend" uses a recording of a dentist drill for unsettling texture. More prominently, the hi-hat sound in "Bad Guy" came from an Australian crosswalk signal - in its original context, the rhythmic clicking is meant to let blind pedestrians know it's safe to cross the street, but it happens to make for a catchy dance beat. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_7c221074 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_7c63d7e | comment |
In The Adventures of Baron Munchausen the sultan has an organ where the notes played are screams of tortured people on the other side getting poked with spikes. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_7c63d7e | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_80dcee46 | comment |
TD Cruze's The Savage Beast and The Savage Beast 2 EP's were comprised of only animal sounds. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_80dcee46 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_8184b06e | comment |
In a flashback scene in The Russia House Sean Connery and some Russian friends play a tune using improvised instruments such as matchboxes. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_8184b06e | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_8258e260 | comment |
The Super Mario Bros. theme has been played on virtually every instrument ever, and some things that are not (normally) instruments as well. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_8258e260 | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_839ae0a1 | type |
Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_839ae0a1 | comment |
Charlie McDonnel, i.e. Charlie Is So Cool Like, uses a box of buttons, a toy TARDIS, a clothes iron, and other such 'instruments' in "A Song About Love." | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_839ae0a1 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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"Wellington's Victory," one of Ludwig van Beethoven's least-known orchestral works, which calls for cannon shots and musket fire from two sides. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_85dfff38 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_8601c91f | comment |
Doom (2016) features the work of Mick Gordon. After being told 'no guitars' by Id Softare, he proceeded to sample a running chainsaw and a Soviet-era synthetic tone generator for the game's title theme. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_88043b11 | comment |
In World of Goo, the creators admit to using cardboard boxes and chairs for the game's percussion. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_88043b11 | |
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Gaston Lagaffe once rigged an "accordion bus" to actually play accordion music every time it went through a turn. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_89726260 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Glee: Episode "Lights Out." A power outage inspires the initially-stunned students to do "We Will Rock You" in this manner. Brooms, chains, pulleys, trash cans, lids, all types of cans and bottles, and even tap dancing shoes come into play here. | |
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In Lost, Michael Giacchino used some pieces of the destroyed plane used for the Oceanic 815 wreckage for percussive sounds which can also be heard in the score. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Popeye's nephews use pieces of their bedding as musical instruments in "Me Musical Nephews." An Al Brodax era cartoon has Popeye playing "Yankee Doodle" using the top of his head. |
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Matmos is well-known for making music out of found sounds, even making Concept Albums out of them: On their breakthrough album A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, they only used squicky medical sounds — just guess what the songs "California Rhinoplasty" and "Lipo Studio" sample most. "For Felix (And All The Rats)" from the same album — A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure — uses the bowed bars of their deceased pet rat's cage as the primary sound source. It is truly heartbreaking. Ultimate Care II was an album made entirely from their Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine, sequenced to mimic the cycle of an actual load of wash. Plastic Anniversary was a statement on the overuse of plastic and was composed entirely of plastic items, from ATM cards, salad bowls and plastic flutes, to percussion solos on pelican cases, a thermoplastic police riot shield and a breast implant. A special edition of the vinyl came in a recycled cardboard box; the album was made out of recycled vinyl, and a second copy of the album, included as an "art object", was rendered unplayable by it being embedded with recycled plastic bottles. |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_8e8a41ec | |
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The ugly stick is a Newfoundland instrument made from household and tool shed items. It's typically a mop handle with bottle caps, tin cans, small bells and other noise makers, with a boot at the bottom. The instrument is played with a drum stick or notched stick. It was featured in Come from Away, during the party at the Legion, acknowledged with this line which is immediately followed by a brief solo on the ugly stick: | |
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"Seamus", from Meddle, features a "solo" of barking and howling performed by a dog. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_8ebb37cc | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_9058ad7e | comment |
The Terminator: The metallic bangs in the main theme were done by Brad Fiedel hitting the microphone with a frying pan. | |
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The Terminator | hasFeature |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Ferris Bueller demonstrates using his synthesizer keyboard to make fake coughing sounds by playing "The Blue Danube". | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_92ef018a | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Fraggle Rock: In "Mokey and the Minstrels", the Minstrels demonstrate this to a skeptical Mokey by playing their instruments to the beat of water dripping from stalactites into a pond. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_938e19ec | |
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In the 1999 Disney film Tarzan, the song "Trashin' the Camp" is this trope, with instruments ranging from a typewriter and glass bell-jar percussion to an (elephant-enhanced) gramophone trumpet. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_93e3f14e | |
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The band were listening to Einsturzende Neubauten around 1983 and happened to have just bought a Synclavier sample machine. Half of that year's album, aptly titled Construction Time Again, consisted of samples of random stuff being hit or dropped. One track was recorded in a warehouse next to a railyard so you have trains going by and getting manipulated into melodies. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_9405f927 | |
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The Animals album features sounds from the animals referenced in each song's title. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_99623224 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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SOPHIE's production style is a strange Double Subversion. While most of the sounds she produces are synthetic and are based on simple waveform synths, she often crafts them from scratch into weird sound effects that make the basis of her songs. Such examples include the bloopy "bubble" sounds and water drops that make up most of "Lemonade", or the metallic whips, plastic-y smacks and rubbery squeaks used throughout "Hard". | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_998ab9ab | |
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Sparks guitarist Bob Haag is credited with "Tab cans" on their 1983 album "In Outer Space". | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_99922571 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Big & Rich's "Wild West Show" has percussion from a peanut can at the very end. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_9d1834ee | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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With exception of the beat, a song entirely made of Pokémon cries. | |
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Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_9f89a5f0 | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
Everything Is an Instrument / int_a037ae41 | comment |
In Fate/Zero, the resident psycho master and servant tries to use half dead people's scream as instruments by pulling out their instruments in set chords and mashing their fingers on them. It does not work. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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The Plasmatics were known for using and listing chainsaws and machineguns as instruments | |
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Futurama has a double example in "Bendin' in the Wind", in which Beck invits him to be the "washboard player" for his backing band, that is, Bender plays his own body, which is torn with parallel-line grooves, which gives it the same effect as a washboard. | |
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Hansel and Gretel (1893) has a carefully notated part for a "cuckoo instrument." | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_a33fdeb | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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The Boy Who Cried Idiot: Martin describes Lincoln's sleep-breathing as "music". | |
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Everything Is an Instrument / int_a9c0ed2c | |
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In the Reading Rainbow episode covering "Ty's One-Man Band", Ben Vereen guest starred singing a song about this trope titled "It Sounds Like Music to Me". | |
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon frequently does this, with the Roots band backing up prominent singers on either kindergarten classroom instruments or found items. Notable examples include Ed Sheeran ("The Shape of You"), Idina Menzel ("Let It Go") and the original cast of Hamilton ("Helpless"). | |
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John Cage believed this wholeheartedly, and built a career around it. His most famous work is 4'33, which given the conditions of contemporary musical performance, usually consists of the noise made by a concert hall full of people trying to be silent while a pianist sits at a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Did your cellphone go off because you forgot to silence it before stepping into the concert hall? That's okay, it's technically part of the performance itself. Cage was famous for this kind of thing. Imaginary Landscape No. 4. is for a small ensemble and 12 radios tuned to random stations; Living Room Music is intended to be played with common living room items; and other pieces using vegetables, conch shells, and the sound of fire. Yes. |
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John Zorn: On "The Book Of Heads" (1995) Zorn rubbed ballons on guitar strings until they popped, hold talking dolls up to the microphone, pulled guitar strings out of the bridge notch, hit the strings with pencils and played with rice! Zorn used water, glass bowls, metal pipes, wax paper, mud and staple guns on his album "Songs from the Hermetic Theatre" (2001). The track "Cycles du Nord" on Music for Children (1998) is a 20-minute composition for wind machines. |
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The Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi | |
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Constantly subverted as a gag in John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch during Mr. Music's song. He keeps trying to make music with everyday objects, only for them to be totally silent. He goes to a leaky faucet only to discover it doesn't drip after someone fixed it, he tries and fails to make a noise by pulling a spoon out of a pudding cup he dances on a mattress only to discover it's Tempur-Pedic and suppresses noise, and he throws a clarinet out the window only for it to land on a random truck full of pillows passing by. He goes so crazy that he almost swings a cat by its tail just so it'll make a pained noise that resembles music, though he steps on glass before he gets to do it. | |
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The title instrument from The Cat Piano drives nails into cats' tails to make them yowl the notes. | |
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On a few episodes of Home Improvement, the K&B Construction Crew would appear on Tool Time to perform a musical number using mostly tools such as power saws, wrenches, screwdrivers, and an actual musical saw. | |
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Home Improvement | hasFeature |
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A scene near the start of Animal House features Delta fraternity member Daniel Simpson Day ("D-Day") playing the William Tell Overture on his throat. (Bruce McGill, who portrayed D-Day, did actually play the tune this way and could still do it over 30 years later.) | |
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AC/DC has cannons. Previously seen in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. It's even listed on the tab. "Wellington's Victory," one of Ludwig van Beethoven's least-known orchestral works, which calls for cannon shots and musket fire from two sides. |
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Slipknot includes whacking beer kegs with baseball bats in their percussion arsenal (see the videos for "Duality", "Psychosocial", and "Sulfur"). | |
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Sometimes heard on A Prairie Home Companion. The sound effects man can, for example, simulate the sound of a song being quacked by a duck or played on a pneumatic drill. | |
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In a Season 9 Hermitcraft episode, Zedaph and Etho collaborated to record a version of the 1812 Overture. Etho's contribution used note blocks, which are the most normal way to make music in Minecraft. Zedaph's contribution, on the other hand, used the game's exploding creeper enemies to provide percussion. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: In "thirteensomething", when Babs leaves the show, Buster holds auditions for a new co-host ("I wonder if Ed McMahon's available."). One of them, Binky Bunny, after doing a terrible Zsa Zsa impression, says she can also play her nose, and does a Hawaiian nose-humming interpretation of the theme song. | |
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Despite what Squidward says, mayonnaise is indeed an instrument. Horseradish is an instrument as well. |
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"Big Boy Toys" by Aaron Tippin features the sounds of someone striking rebar, a ratchet wrench, and a wire saw. | |
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The junkyard instruments used by Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and his friends. | |
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Chernobyl: Hildur Guðnadóttir put a hazmat suit on, went into the decommissioned nuclear power plant in Lithuania that would be used to film the series, and recorded sounds there, including pumps, reactors and turbines. Then she arranged the haunting soundtrack of the series with them. | |
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Team Fortress 2: A common Memetic Mutator, fans often take the sound effects (like the Scout's "BONK!") and make music of it. The Mario 1-1 theme and the Mortal Kombat theme are two of the most popular. The Super Mario Bros. theme has been played on virtually every instrument ever, and some things that are not (normally) instruments as well. And then there are those that take it even further. Ahem. The Medic can play his bonesaw as though it were a violin. And if it's the Amputator, it can heal others too. |
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Dancer in the Dark features a song called "Cvalda", in which the rhythm is inspired by the noise of factory machinery. | |
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The Peronza Plaza music in the Luncheon Kingdom from Super Mario Odyssey, as this behind the scenes video shows, uses the sounds of knives hitting a cutting board and a ladle hitting a metal pot lid as the sole percussion, to go along with the locale's Level Ate theming. | |
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Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (unreleased videogame) had a level which aurally imitated the aforementioned The Typewriter except as an arcade shooter instead of a typewriter. | |
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Prominent YouTube artist Joe Penna, alias MysteryGuitarMan, makes frequent use of things that aren't conventional instruments. Take, for example, a Mozart overture performed with root beer bottles. | |
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Kingdom of Paradise: The two Celestial Swords, the New Moon and Full Moon swords, can produce some fine music by tapping along the flat of the blade. This knowledge is needed to reveal the Celestial Temple at Gekkei Lake. The main theme is played from the combination of both swords, which is ONLY played at the epilogue. | |
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Flight of the Conchords: They do this a few times, once in their New York apartment using both their instruments and whatever else was lying around, then again when they're deported and working as shepherds in New Zealand, including playing a wire fence as a bass and what appeared to be Jemaine playing a sheep as an accordion. There's also the "office supply break" in "Leggy Blonde". |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Parodied with a dose of Black Comedy by "The Bells of St Mary's", where a man on stage proudly presents the audience his "mouse organ", a box containing mice which he arranged like piano keys and claims to have trained them to squeak at a certain pitch. Once he begins to perform, the man reveals his method of "playing" his mice: making them squeak by fervently bashing them with two giant mallets much to the horror of everyone present, which gets him forcibly dragged off the stage and chased out of the building by an angry mob. On their "Interesting People" sketch, they have "The March of the Men of Harlech", performed on bicycle bells. They also performed "The Exploding Blue Danube." |
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Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter uses a typewriter as the percussion section with the keys clicking a rhythm and the carriage bell ringing at the end of each phrase. (Now better known in the UK as "the theme from The News Quiz".) Anderson was very fond of this. Other examples from his work include sandpaper in "Sandpaper Ballet" (fine, medium, and coarse to produce different pitches), alarm clocks in "The Syncopated Clock", and coconut shells and sleigh bells in "Sleigh Ride." |
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In We Love Katamari, the track "Sunbaked Savanna" is a medley of songs from the first game rescored with animal noises and tribal drums. | |
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Richard Wagner includes an anvil strike in Das Rheingold when Donner swings his hammer to open Valhalla, and then a whole chorus of tuned anvils playing complicated rhythms to represent the dwarf-smiths of Nibelheim. | |
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According to Steven Tyler, the studio version of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" features him using a sugar packet as percussion - they wanted to use maracas, but there weren't any in the studio, so he improvised by shaking the packet in front of the mic and having an engineer turn the volume up as much as possible so it would actually be audible over the music. | |
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Queen: "Seaside Rendezvous" features the band members mimicking a muted trumpet and shoetapping with fingers and bottle caps. Yes, it's true. "Bicycle Race" has a solo on the bicycle bell. |
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As a former student of Pierre Schaeffer, Jarre used noises in his music on other albums as well. The waves and seagulls in "Oxygène 6" are synthetic, as is the wind at the beginning of "Oxygène 4". The rain and thunder on Equinoxe are actual pre-sampling recordings. Other iconic Jarre samples include the shutter and motorwinder of Charlotte Rampling's Nikon camera ("Souvenir Of China"), a heartbeat instead of an actual beat ("Ron's Piece") and the many, many rhythmic clock samples on Chronologie. The metallic beat in the overture of "Industrial Revolution" is synthesized again. | |
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The "MÜ! Song" from the The Zane And Noah Show is a rap instrumental that consists of animal noises. | |
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In one episode the Cylon Theme in Battlestar Galactica (2003) was played on pots, pans, and a toaster. | |
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In League of Legends, when composing the theme for Dark Star Thresh the composer used dry ice on metal achieve the tones he desired. | |
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Top Gear: They did a segment when James May recreated the theme song (a variation of "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers Band) using the exhaust sounds from various car engines. On another episode, the boys used the loose and squeaky bits of their British Leyland cars to try and play a tune. |
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In Elric of Melniboné, Elric is entertained by his court musician torturing a tuned array of slaves, each of which has been surgically altered to scream one perfect note. | |
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The Blue Man Group actually builds their own instruments out of PVC piping and other materials. That "swishing" noise you hear on some of their songs ("Utne Wire Man" most notably) is really just them swinging really long aerials. It's worth noting that the liner notes for Audio go into detail on how they assemble their instruments... and mention one of their failures. | |
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"Seaside Rendezvous" features the band members mimicking a muted trumpet and shoetapping with fingers and bottle caps. Yes, it's true. | |
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Einstürzende Neubauten use custom instruments built mostly from scrap metal and industrial tools. Their liner notes list everything they use from styrofoam to a jet turbine. On one early track, they added percussion by attaching microphones to Blixa Bargeld's body and having N U Unruh beat him up. Their dance club-ready song "Zampano" is made entirely out of springs, pneumatic pistons and air horns. | |
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In Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas during "Donald's Gift" every person and thing in the mall is suddenly making noise to the tune of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", the very song Donald was trying to escape. | |
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On Fairport Convention's album Unhalfbricking, Martin Lamble is credited with playing "stacked chair backs" on one song. | |
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In the 1980's, Holger Czukay of Can listed among his primary instruments a dictaphone (a dictation machine that predates cassette recorders). | |
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In one of the puppet shows from the Baby Einstein video Meet the Orchestra, a duck puppet plays Blue Danube with bottles. | |
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An All That sketch about a school music class with its funding cut had characters playing erasers, sneezes, mud, sandwiches, and even their own tongues (bowed with a ruler). At first it seems the trope will be subverted when their performance sounds awful on the first try, but then Amanda Bynes retunes her tongue, and then they start sounding like a symphony orchestra. | |
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"Symphony Hour": Mickey Mouse conducts a flawless rendition of Von Suppe's "Light Cavalry Overture" while auditioning for a radio show. Before the big broadcast, Goofy accidentally drops all the instruments down the elevator, and the performance ends up sounding like Spike Jones. | |
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"Bicycle Race" has a solo on the bicycle bell. | |
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On Family Guy, one of the flashback gags had Peter and Michael Moore sitting in adjacent bathroom stalls... farting out "Dueling Banjos". | |
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Being largely based around sampling and found sound, many Disco Inferno songs naturally involve this; for example, "Starbound: All Burnt Out & Nowhere to Go"'s percussion section is built around camera shutter sounds. | |
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The Smurflings in The Smurfs (1981) upstaged Brainy's orchestral performance in one story (and episode) with music from instruments made of junk. | |
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Ross in Friends does this kind of music with his keyboard. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The track "Cycles du Nord" on Music for Children (1998) is a 20-minute composition for wind machines. | |
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The Reaping of Hatsune Miku: Kamui Gakupo claims that "the last thing he did with music was find out you could achieve pitch with a sword" when asked to provide vocals on a collab. | |
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In "Steamboat Willie", after getting a goat that ate some sheet music to play "Turkey in the Straw", he proceeds to play out the melody on as many things as he can find. He runs out of inanimate things fairly quickly, and then proceeds to play it on a yowling cat (because he's pulling its tail), a duck, a group of feeding piglets by pulling their tails, the mother pig the piglets were feeding like an accordion and finally the teeth of a cow as if they were a xylophone. | |
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A key part of Art of Noise's sound was the use of samples of everyday objects to form songs that are effectively sound collages. The sound effect of a starting Volkswagen Golf is used quite regularly, the sound of a flushing toilet is used on "Hoops and Mallets", the sound of a ruler being strummed against a desk forms a large part of "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise", and much, much more besides. | |
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Hammers are popular musical instruments for songs with "hammer" in the title. The Indigo Girls used a hammer and a nail to accompany "Hammer and a Nail", while on Johnny Cash's cover of "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer", a hammer was used to accompany the song. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" from Abbey Road by The Beatles. The Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi Richard Wagner includes an anvil strike in Das Rheingold when Donner swings his hammer to open Valhalla, and then a whole chorus of tuned anvils playing complicated rhythms to represent the dwarf-smiths of Nibelheim. |
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