Luigi Monteanni // Om Telolet Om TAPE

"Om telolet om" is a composition made out of small and medium audio cut-ups and samples taken from various youtube videos compilations regarding a specific theme named after these words.

"Om telolet om" refers to a meme, and to a popular internet subculture, originally developed in Indonesia and that successively spread through other countries.
The meme consists in showing a sign (usually a simple handwritten piece of paper) on which the aforementioned phrase, that literally means "Uncle honk uncle", is written. In doing that, the kids try to get the attention of the bus drivers of several famous Indonesian bus companies, trying to make them honk.
The joke is based on the fact that those busses all have customized honks which allow them to produce weird sequences of sounds that range from silly and very recognizable westerns melodies to pure 8-bit raving madness.
The sequences and the honks, although not unique and similar to the ones that can be found for example in Malaysia and Sri Lanka, remind at a time of traditional reed and string instruments (tarompet, rebab) and percussions of the Indonesian tradition while being only simple successions of synthesized sounds.
While the deep reasons of this whole subculture remain partially unknown up til now, it is true that this is a movement that has its own consistence, resulting in unprofessional street parades and both bus and bus drivers meetings (which sounds are also present in the track).
"Om telolet om" is therefore a fake series of field recordings in the double sense of the non-autenticity of the recording phases (which anyway takes in account the online birth and life of the phenomenon) and of the choice of the subject, trying at the same time to give a playful sight on sound culture, subculture, field recordings and their contemporary developments." - Bandcamp

Artist : Luigi Monteanni

Label : CantiMagnetici