Electronic Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
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| song name | Electronic Istanbul (Not Constantinople) |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Album Raises New And Troubling Questions, Them Ain't Big Eye Ants, Idlewild, Modern |
| year | 2011 |
| run time | 2:49 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh, John Linnell, Dan Miller via vocoder |
Trivia/Info
- John Flansburgh in an interview with Rolling Stone: "There's a version of 'Istanbul (Not Constantinople)' that we assembled just to make a video out of it. That's an interesting recording because even though it's totally electronic, it was actually recorded live. It sounds completely tracked. I mean it doesn't sound like a band – it sounds like electronic music – but it’s actually the five of us in a room playing."[1]
- The electronic sounds in this song were generated by John Linnell using a circuit bent Speak & Spell and Roland SP-303 sampler, Dan Miller using a microKORG synthesizer, including the attached vocoder, and Danny Weinkauf playing an Alesis micron synthesizer. The robotic voice asking "shall we play?" is an audio sample of WOPR, a computer from the 1983 film WarGames.
Song Themes
Altered Voice, Cities, Educational, Geography, History, New York City, Non-John Vocals, Not In Major Or Minor, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Questions, TMBG Remakes, Two Chord Songs
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