owny woo
Arranged and edited by Ron Moses
Single, produced by Ron Moses
I worked tech support for a small software company for several years in the late 90s. One day we received a voice message from one of our customers, left by an IT consultant they’d hired. It was amazing. I felt bad for this guy who was clearly struggling with English and just trying to do his job, but we listened to this message dozens of times and never stopped laughing.
And then one day I decided to remix it. I downloaded a batch of random drum/bass samples, chopped up the call, and created this thing. You’re welcome.
I’m going to paste in Lewis Saul’s write-up in its entirety, where he does the same to someone else:
More Ron Moses for ya!
This one requires a bit of explanation.
Ron is in tech support. This guy left a message on their answering machine, and Ron turned it into a work of musique concrète!
However, a disclaimer is in order. I found this on another site that hosts Owny Woo, and I'm quoting this person because I couldn't possibly say it better:
"...Working in the tech biz these days means working with people from all over the world. People whose native tongue isn't English. People who are doing me a favor by learning my language in order to communicate. Thus I generally don't believe making fun of their accents is nice. But we're all human and sometimes it can be really, really funny. So today I will point my readers to Owny Woo. A double order of giggles smothered in date sauce..."
I never found out who that second reviewer was. Other sites were hosting this thing? Does that mean I went viral? That's sort of cool, I guess. And really, I’m not making fun of anyone here, I don’t think, am I? It’s not about mocking this guy, it’s about the way his message is so delightfully open to comedic interpretation. It’s like when you’re laughing at an elderly woman falling down a flight of stairs; you’re not laughing at her, but at the sight of the flailing ballet her frail body describes as she tumbles from step to step like a rag doll and finally spills helplessly to the pavement. I mean, that’s the funny part, right? I can’t hear you but I know you’re with me on this.
Hello? This is a Clyde? I’m in a kleine sad centimeter software op. But I’d a body would have um owny woo, workstation had a match is a uh eyeball to connect, date sauce. I just need to know where we can make a change.
Owny woo
Date sauce
Uh eyeball, uh eyeball, op
Kleine sad
Centimeter, date sauce
Kleine sad
Software op
Kleine sad
Hello? Uh eyeball
Owny woo? Owny woo? Op
Kleine sad
Owny owny owny woo
Kleine sad
Date sauce, date sauce
Hello?
This is a Clyde?
Woo owny woo owny
Software woo owny sauce uh eyeball
Software woo owny owny kleine sad
Date owny, date owny, date date owny owny
Hello?
Centimeter
Owny owny op, woo woo op, owny woo
I just need to know where we can make a change