In YouTube Right Now, the Daily Dot looks at videos that catch our eyes, push our buttons, and move our dials—and that you’ve just got to watch. Right now!
That pygmy marmoset’s a real demon on the bleeptronic 5000.
And the hamadryas baboon? Well, he’s about as smooth on the Casio CT-360 as anybody in Passion Pit.
Thanks to Volt, a Swedish electronic music festival set to rattle some Scandinavian walls June 9, we can finally get a taste for the synthesizer capabilities of our simian brethren. The festival is running a promotional experiment on its YouTube channel: iI you give a handful of monkeys a stock room full of keyboards and synths, will they make beautiful music?
The answer hinges on your own definition of “beautiful”—and maybe “music.”
Over the course of three minutes, the monkeys twist and turn their newfound instruments to what sounds like a recreation of the Dr. Who soundtrack. It’s come to the delight of more than 46,000 people who have watched the video since it posted on Friday, some of whom found the experimental musicianship oddly reminiscent of a Skrillex show.
We happen to think it’s better than a Skrillex show.
“I’d see them at Coachella,” commenter thesonicbliss wrote, “long as they don’t fling poo.”
Requests for “Too Much Monkey Business” start now.
Photo via YouTube