the Laibox©! Take the hip-hop industry's current obsession with auto-tuners (i.e. "robot voice"). What the Laibox© does is to take any vocal input and make it sound like Laibach vocals, heavy, guttural, Slovenian-accented, mining-of-totalitarian-history vocals.
And better, the Laibox© can be hooked up to any source. Wolf Blitzer on CNN? Now he sounds like a militant, power-drunk barbarian revolutionary with "third world hunger." Jane Austen audiobook? Banal "experimental" poetry readings? Body-wash ads?
Like Laibach promised in "Hell:Symmetry," with the Laibox©, I really can "speak your language" and make it mine, "clear-cut and crude."
The Laibox©... bringing Balkan defamiliarization and historical discomfort to the masses.
Be good for lecturing as well - I feel saying things like 'make sure you read the text for next week' would sound a whole lot more convincing through the laibox - let alone it's use at conferences...
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