Excerpt from Une sale histoire by Jean Eustache (1977).

Le chant du styrene (literally the song of the styrene, homophone for the French word sirène meaning mermaid), is short film directed by Alain Resnais initially ordered by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.

The text was written by Raymond Queneau in alexandrines.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find english subtitles.

From one song to another: The beautiful duet sung by Hero and her lady-in-waiting Ursule in Beatrice et Benedict – a comic opera based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, written and composed by Hector Berlioz in 1858. Listen here.
Two more performances at Royal Academy of Music.

Following the winding ways of the Heideggerian landscape is by no means an easy task. We fumble searchingly amongst the shapeless forms of a desert in darkness. Huffing and puffing, we are close to surrender. Then along comes the poem by Rilke and sings:

Though swiftly the world coverts,
like cloud-shapes’ upheaval,
everything perfect reverts
to the primeval.

Suffering is not discerned,
neither has love been learned,
and what removes us in death,
nothing unveils.
Only the song’s high breath
hallows and hails.
(Part I, Sonnets to Orpheus)

And off we go again, to play on this tortuous way! hurrah!

Psychic TV – Wicked
Something conscious from the acid vaults.