Created as a promo video for the Volt Swedish Electronic Music Festival by Håkan Lidbo, the experiment proves that monkeys and synths go together almost as well as ketchup and chocolate. All the same, that baboon that eats the Casio might still have a shot at fame. [ed. note: Sloths aren't monkeys, but everything else about this is cool]
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Monkeys + Synthesizers is a project where 6 different spieces of monkeys (and some others) were given different synthesizers. Do monkeys like music and do they enjoy creating music?
Humans is the only species on earth that actually compose music. Most birds and some mammals make beautiful sounds, but primarily to scare others away -- or to get laid. The project explores if other primates can make music.
In the 60s, the Chimpanzee Congo became famous when he painted abstract paintings that got pretty good reviews by art critics. He had a distinct style in some sort of abstract expressionistic tradition. He liked red a lot but didn't he like blue. Today, some of his paintings are worth up to 20.000 €.
Since the synthesizers was invented, the musicians have been asked "Is this
really making music? You just press a button and out comes music, right?"
Well... you do press buttons, twist knobs and faders, but there are endless ways
of doing this. That is why the synthesizer probably is the greatest musical
instrument in history. A great example of human ingenuity and engineering --
something that makes us different from the monkeys.
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