“The Big Bank Opera” premiered as a featured part of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Here’s the entire mini-opera — Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 and Act 4 — each as a separate episode (#124-7) of the Improbable Research TV series. The video displayed below is Act 3, which is called “The Big […]
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Fur elise: animals now, Ig on Oct 1
Beethoven’s tune “Für Elise” will feature in act 1 of “The Big Bank Opera“, which premieres as part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on October 1. Here, in the meantime, is a very different performance of the tune, cobbled of sounds from a loon, two owls, cat, wood stork and cuckoo. Switchzoo assembled it. […]