Hieronymus Bosch's "Butt Song"

I just ran across this odd youtube clip in which a short musical score found on someone's bottom on Hieronymus Bosch's famous Garden of Earthly delights triptych was performed as a Gregorian chant. Perhaps this is old news for others, but as a fan of Bosch, Gregorian chants and butts I found it fascinating.



Apparently this was first noted and performed by a music student named Amelia Hamrick at Oklahoma Christian University in 2014. The following news clip gives some interesting background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBVuNerzdGg

 

I'm a big fan of Bosch (arguably the first surrealist painter). That's really interesting!

 

What the...

Sounds like a Monty Python sketch

 

The inspiration for French artiste Le Pétomane, he and his band The Room Clearers, known to have blown his audience away.

 

Did he in turn inspire the Rolling Stones, "Jumping Jack Flash, it's a gas gas gas"?

 

Is that the guy that did the farting orchestra? Some things you would only know from this forum

 

Heiniemus Tush

 

Butt rock four score and a thousand years before the fact! We can be hieroes... Just for one day.

 

The bottom is top!

 

This is an amazing forum.

 

So true, I hope to goodness though that this is not the first thread you've seen haha

 

"but, but...."

 

We were in Spain for a tour and using Madrid as a hub city when an exhibition of Bosch was at the Prado.
A band member and I were fortunate to get tickets and see this amazing painting (as well as many others)
up close and personal.
A truly amazing painting.

 

"What what in the..."

 

Was it a painting of butts or something?

 

The musical butt was a part of the painting. The Garden of Earthly Delights is a staggeringly great piece of art.
So great, that a friend's band wrote a song about it.

 

Here's the flute player waiting for his cue:

 

Gawd that's hard to un-see

 

Deep Purple used the middle section of the triptych for their third, self-titled album. You can see it here!

Deep Purple, Blind:

 

If you look closely, that is Keith Moon peering from the bass drum.