Honestly, I know nothing about the MP3 you are going to hear, and I don't even know whether it has anything to do with ventriloquism. It might as well be piece of conceptual art, or the recording of a guy talking to a cow named "Bill" (or maybe "Bail"?). The only thing that is absolutely clear is that it is the "First Lesson" from a longer work (30, 15, or 20 minutes, according to the artist/instructor). Learn "grunting" (or "grinding"?) and judge for yourself: Throw Your Voice (MP3)
I always wished I could do that. Throw my voice that is, not grunt. :)
Posted by: Chris | December 03, 2006 at 03:14 AM
I wonder what it's from. Certainly not from Jimmy Nelson's Instant Ventriloquism LP in which his dummy Danny O'Day, in response to Jimmy saying he will teach you Ventriloquism with five easy steps, "Sheesh! You're drunk!"
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Posted by: Viking | December 04, 2006 at 12:02 AM
Any Chance we could get the rest of the file (lesson), or know where we can find it?
Posted by: Buzzy | December 04, 2006 at 08:30 PM
I'd be happy to share the opening track of Danny O'Days album with anyone if I knew how to post the MP3...can I email it to Lukas?
Posted by: Dale Hazelton | December 05, 2006 at 10:19 AM
I first heard this a few years ago but I don't remember where - and it *was* longer!
Posted by: pat | December 05, 2006 at 12:33 PM
ah - there was a 15-minute version of this at sharpeworld but it's gone now.
Posted by: pat | December 05, 2006 at 01:04 PM
Thanks for all the comments. Dale, I have the Jimmy Nelson album myself, but I don't think it compares at all in creepiness and weirdness. And Pat, thanks a lot for the Sharpeworld link, I tried digging it up with the Wayback Machine of archive.org, but the original link has disappeared into the voids of cyberspace, it seems. Apparently it was a 15 MB file "Throw Your Voice" by "Unknown", hosted on the now defunct site www.140corp.com some time in 2002. If anyone has the full-length version, by all means leave a comment here, and I'll get in touch and upload it.
Posted by: Lukas | December 06, 2006 at 04:36 PM