photo by Andrew Kelly
YA LINGO! 

A multi-lingual MC game show cipher by Uber Lingua 

Eight of Australia's best MCs and vocalists with non-English backgrounds rap in their mother tongue... competition style... 

One rule: no English allowed! A dice determined the order of appearance, selector bP drops the beats, an interpreter converts what their verses into a common lingo for crowd and competitor. Heats determine the pecking order with the audience deciding the winner each time... a final two emerge and take each other on in the decider... 

Spanish! Swiss German! Japanese! Shona! Turkish! Singhalese! amoungst others

It's trans-lingual competition at it's extremes... Ya Lingo!

Next tournament: TBA 

BOOKINGS: to book Ya Lingo! speak to bP via info@uberlingua.com

VERSION 1

The original Ya Lingo! was performed at 'Scrabble' BMW Edge Federation Square Melbourne as part of the Emerging Writers Festival 2007
Audio

The whole performance: click here for Real Audio (8MB) or click here for mp3 (31MB)

or sample the individual bits 

Intro to Ya Lingo! mp3 (3.8MB)
Round 1: RifRaf vs Vulk Makedonski mp3 (6.9MB)
Round 2:  Andrez vs Pataphysics mp3 (7.1MB)
Final: no spoilers thanks (7.8MB)
4-way trans lingual cipher mp3 (5.4MB)

The cast:

selector: bP

game show host: Simon Winkler

 

contestant: Volk Makedonski

contestant: RiffRaff

contestant: Pataphysics

contestant: MC Andres

Click here for the FLICKR PHOTO SET from the original Ya Lingo!


all photos by Andrew Kelly. 

forthcoming video documentation by Brendan Chillemi (stay tuned) 


VERSION 2

We did an 8 MC mega Ya Lingo at Bellingen Global Carnival 2007

The contestants were:

Pataphysics
(Singhalese)

Potato Master
(Japanese)

Aysu C
(Turkish)

RiffRaff
(Shona)

sakamoiz
(Swiss)

Azmarino from Diafrix
(Tigringa)

Luis from Labjacd
(Spanish)

Kieron Ruffles
(French)

 here's a few photos... more documentation from this shortly

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE PHOTOS FROM BELLINGEN


VERSION 3

Then we did one in front of school kids on Mental Health Day 2007... madness! (pardon the pun)

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE MENTAL HEALTH DAY PHOTOS

BOOKINGS: to book Ya Lingo! speak to bP via info@uberlingua.com
email: info@uberlingua.com to be on our email list...

Music can be sent to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia