monkeys + synthesizers - voltfestivalen june 9, 2012

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 €. 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 probab