This crazy Swedish website is a simple yet fun way to kill time. Type in your message and it will "sing" it back to you using fragments of well-known songs. You can email your singing messages to friends. Here a message for boing boing: Link.

The "let them sing it for you" website is the brainchild of Swedish artist Erik Bunger. Bunger works mostly in plunderphonics - sampling, remixing, and repurposing pop music.

You can find lots of other things to download on his website. My favorites are his arrangement for rock band that imitates a skipping CD (Variations on a theme by Casey & Finch) and the spectral drone of Variations on a Theme by Lou Reed, where he freezes Reed crooning the word "heroin." (Which I've written about here, incidentally: Link. )

"arrangement for rock band that imitates a skipping CD (Variations on a theme by Casey & Finch)"

This brings to mind the tragic case of Creighton Wheeler, a radio presenter who suffered from Splicer's Disease. This impediment caused his live speech to cut and jump as if being cut by a cruel sound recorder. Creighton would start on some innocuous sentence, only to hear his disease trip it into some obscene vulgarity. He managed to record two series for BBC Radio 4 despite the affliction though (or perhaps because). Sadly I can't find a sample online...

Creighton Wheeler was a character, not a real person. Wikipedia Link.

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