Sunday, September 20, 2009

Pogo - Expialidocious



Pogo is an Australian gentleman who has taken sounds and words from the movie Mary Poppins. His process is to use personal sine wave bass and custom drum sequences to assist the sounds from the movie in creating a full fledged song. In the way that it has been utilized, it is far-from its original piece.

While the video is not very subtle, the song itself stretches to greater heights through his tremendously melodic arrangement. He uses all techniques from reversing and looping a particular section of background music, to finding words that, once taken out of context and set on repeat, are more musical than they are logical. The latter techniques is one of the most fascinating aspects of his videos. His ability to use words yet not truly have any coherent sentence, therefore forcing the listeners mind to accept it as a musical rhythm. The fact that this is the main point of his work makes him unique in a way that the movie piece had little-to-nothing to do with.

Pogo has made quite a number of these songs. All available for free on the internet. While some of them are quite obvious over where their sounds were extracted from (Alohamora) others are even more cryptic and stretches farther away from their origin (White Magic). However Expialidocious seems to have hit that sweet spot where it is its own creation yet still receives attention because of its original forms popularity.

1 comment:

Solecito said...

Oh yes, I love this guy. "Expialidocious" is my favorite of his. V. nice showcase.