0:00:02 > 0:00:04# Every day when you're walkin' down the street
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Everybody that you meet
0:00:07 > 0:00:10# Has an original point of view
0:00:10 > 0:00:12- # And I say, hey!- Hey!
0:00:12 > 0:00:17# What a wonderful kind of day If we can learn to work and play
0:00:17 > 0:00:20# And get along with each other
0:00:21 > 0:00:24# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Listen to the rhythm The rhythm of the street
0:00:26 > 0:00:28# Open up your eyes! Open up your ears!
0:00:28 > 0:00:32# Get together and make things better by working together
0:00:32 > 0:00:36# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart
0:00:36 > 0:00:41# Oh, believe in yourself For that's the place to start
0:00:41 > 0:00:46- # And I say, hey!- Hey! - What a wonderful kind of day
0:00:46 > 0:00:51# If we can learn to work and play And get along with each other
0:00:51 > 0:00:56# What a wonderful kind of day, hey! What a wonderful kind of day, HEY! #
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Hey, DW!
0:01:00 > 0:01:01- Hey!- Whoa!
0:01:01 > 0:01:04CRASH!
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Binky Barnes knows music better than any other kid I know.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11He can play classical.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16He can play jazz.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22He can even play a little klezmer music.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28A sheynem dank.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32And there's no-one who appreciates music as much as he does.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36- He even likes really challenging music, like this piece by...- No!
0:01:36 > 0:01:37Don't play it.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Once they hear it, they'll never be able to get it out of their heads.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43It grabs onto you and takes over your brain
0:01:43 > 0:01:45until you can hear nothing else!
0:01:45 > 0:01:50- I'm warning you, don't listen! - But I thought you liked it.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Who says I didn't like it? I think it's great.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55You've been warned!
0:01:58 > 0:02:00I think you can handle it.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16THEY PLAY EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC
0:02:39 > 0:02:42With a name like Bang On A Can All-Stars,
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I thought we were going to hear something danceable.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Sorry I dragged you along, Francine.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51- Are you kidding me? I loved it! - You did?
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Yeah, I never knew what was going to happen next.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Some of it was scary, some of it was funny.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57It was like nothing I've ever heard.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Now, that's exactly what I like to hear.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02And, by the way, you can dance to it.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05You just look really funny doing it. I've tried.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09- Oh, no, I just meant that... - It's OK.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13- I know the music I write isn't for everyone.- Are you the composer?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16I thought all that stuff was made up on the spot.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20No, everything that goes on up here winds up in the score.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25It looks like chicken scratch... Very beautiful chicken scratch.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Hey, would you consider coming to our school?
0:03:28 > 0:03:31I'd love for my friends to hear some of your music.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Oh, yes, I'm sure they'd appreciate your
0:03:34 > 0:03:37"dazzling array of originality."
0:03:37 > 0:03:40We do have a few weeks before our next gig.
0:03:40 > 0:03:45And I'd love to explore Elwood City, it's so uniquely average.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46We'd love to.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53- The Bang on a what? - Bang On A Can All-Stars.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55They're this really cool band.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57I met the composer
0:03:57 > 0:03:59and they've agreed to come to our school next week.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03- What kind of music is it? - It's tres avant-garde, Binky.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08- It might be too sophisticated for you.- Ha! Too sophisticated for me?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I know music better than any of you.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Wow. I feel like I was just on another planet.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18I wonder if this is what it's like to be Buster?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:04:21 > 0:04:25When do they stop tuning their instruments and play the music?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27That is the music.
0:04:27 > 0:04:32MUSIC CONTINUES
0:04:54 > 0:04:59- What on earth was that?!- It's called Big, Beautiful, Dark And Scary.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00Pretty wild, right?
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Well, it's dark and scary, but it sure isn't beautiful.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08I told you, you have to have a very refined ear to enjoy it.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13Oh, come on. You're not telling me you actually like that music!
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Of course.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19OK, well, maybe not yet, but I'm trying to.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- I think it's so different.- So?
0:05:22 > 0:05:25A tuna and jelly sandwich is different,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27but that doesn't mean it tastes good.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Here, take it and listen to some more tracks.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33- I'm telling you, it grows on you.- I doubt it.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:05:37 > 0:05:42Argh! That's it, I've got to go wash my ears out with some real music.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48ENGINE HUMS RHYTHMICALLY
0:05:49 > 0:05:54BIRDS SQUAWK
0:05:54 > 0:05:58SAWING AND DRILLING
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Argh! Something's happened to my ears.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- They're fine, Binky.- Are you sure?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Then why am I noticing all these sounds?
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- It's like that can-banging music infected me!- What music?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16You're better off not knowing, Mom. Believe me.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20TAPS DRIP RHYTHMICALLY
0:06:20 > 0:06:22BINKY SIGHS
0:06:22 > 0:06:27Thanks a lot for giving me that music. It changed my brain for ever.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31- That's ridiculous.- Is that the Bang On A Can All-Stars?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Arthur was telling me all about them.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35No, don't do it. You'll be sorry!
0:06:37 > 0:06:39I downloaded some of their music last night.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42You know, I actually am starting to like it.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45See, I told you. It grows on you.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Yeah, like some creepy, musical mind mould.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52- Ask him. He'll understand.- Wow.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57It's like someone has recorded the way I think. Can I borrow this?
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Aww, you've all lost it! That stuff isn't music!
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Finally, it's just me, you and Beethoven.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18BRANCH TAPS ON WINDOW
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Be quiet, tree!
0:07:22 > 0:07:26CAR ALARM BLARES
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Aw!
0:07:38 > 0:07:40CAR ALARM BECOMES MUFFLED
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Silly Bang On A Van....
0:07:43 > 0:07:46HE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
0:07:52 > 0:07:56- Listen to it, Binky. - You must listen.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59It will grow on you.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Then you will be one of us.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04No, get back!
0:08:04 > 0:08:07That's not music, this is music.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10IT MAKES A QUACKING SOUND
0:08:10 > 0:08:12HE SCREAMS
0:08:18 > 0:08:21They've all been brainwashed, I've got to prove it.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23I know!
0:08:26 > 0:08:30DOG BARKS
0:08:30 > 0:08:33TRUCK WHIRRS
0:08:33 > 0:08:36TOILET FLUSHES
0:08:38 > 0:08:42BACON SIZZLES
0:08:42 > 0:08:45LIGHTNING CRACKS
0:08:45 > 0:08:49HIS BELLY RUMBLES
0:08:51 > 0:08:53DOG BARKS
0:08:53 > 0:08:56HE YAWNS
0:08:56 > 0:08:58"Gesundheit"?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00You've never heard of them?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02They're this great band I found on the internet,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05they're really classy and sophisticated.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09In fact, the Elwood City Times called them, quote,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12"Really classy and sophisticated." End quote.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- Want to hear them?- OK.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18HE STIFLES LAUGHTER
0:09:22 > 0:09:26MISHMASH OF RECORDED SOUNDS PLAYS
0:09:26 > 0:09:28SHE LAUGHS
0:09:33 > 0:09:35SHE LAUGHS
0:09:35 > 0:09:41- So, what do you think?- I thought it was kind of funny.- It was weird.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43But I'd like to hear it again.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Well, it's no Bang On A Can All-Stars,
0:09:45 > 0:09:47but it's still pretty interesting.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49I really liked it.
0:09:49 > 0:09:55Aha! You're all wrong. It's awful and you know how I know? I made it.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57You made that, Binky?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Yup, I just threw some sounds together on my computer.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05All it took me was three days...then three nights.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10- I'm exhausted.- Sounds like it was a lot of work.- You have no idea.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14I had to get the barks just right and the stomach gurgles were flat
0:10:14 > 0:10:18and I wanted the toilet flushes to sound like woodwinds.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Binky, it's really good.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21I agree.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24I thought you might want to add in a little clarinet,
0:10:24 > 0:10:28- it would blend in nicely with the toilet flushing.- You're here!
0:10:28 > 0:10:30This is the band I've been telling you all about.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Your principal said we could practise here.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34I've been thinking,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37if you change your name to the Bang On A Car All-Stars,
0:10:37 > 0:10:40I could guarantee you sponsorship.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43That was really good, by the way. Have you composed other stuff?
0:10:43 > 0:10:47I didn't compose anything, I just put a lot of different sounds together.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51I call that composing. You should keep it up, you've got talent.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58- OK!- Hey, Julia, let's add some instruments to Binky's soundscape.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02That's a great idea. That is if it's OK with you?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04You bet it's OK!
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Hey, guys, let's get set up and jam with this composer here.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12I guess I really am a composer.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23That was wild. What if we switched chords now?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Or we could try it in a minor key?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29- Yeah!- I guess the music finally grew on him.
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