playing music to correspond with every syllable of speech.

an example of that is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_tr%C3%A9sor_de_la_langue

"These spoken-word recordings are interspersed with the music, as Lussier plays a single note on his guitar to correspond with every syllable of speech. He is quoted as saying, "It's remarkable what melodies we speak to each other every day! And no one's the least bothered by these phrases, but transpose them into music and they can become surprising, even disturbing!" ".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ATBdtnjvw

The youtube "remixes/songifications" joke treand ("bed intruder song" ,"backing up song"etc) is sort of related to that I would like to hear more surprising, disturbing music like that.

There was a jazz pianist who did this a couple of years ago IIRC and the result was really cool. Forget the name now but he's something of a name.

Oh, it was Jason Moran, and the album is called Bandwagon.

I'm not much of a Steve Vai fan, but a friend put this on a mixtape once to drive me insane. Kicks in at 1:07.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Asi870JpI

John Somebody

"Kitchen", "Radio", and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" all feature Zappa's "meltdown" style of generally pre-written but sometimes improvised singing/speaking. For "Jazz" and "Kitchen", Zappa had guitarist Steve Vai overdub complex guitar parts for the entire length of the songs, which perfectly copied Frank's every word and syllable. Vai considers it to be one of his most difficult assignments as a musician; it required him to detune his guitar at times to match Frank's varying pitches. This unique type of overdub was a one-time experiment that Zappa never repeated. Peter Eötvös composer said in an interview:[1]

"Dangerous Kitchen", off the album "The Man From Utopia", grew to become a basic piece for me, especially in later years, after I began working on operas. The technique that he uses in this particular song is very interesting: it's this half-sung, half-spoken performing method that's not quite like Sprechgesang, but what makes it so interesting is that he accompanies it with an instrumental solo. I was very surprised to find out that the guitar part was recorded separately. As it seemed so synchronous, I was convinced that Zappa had sung and played at the same time. Nevertheless the technique itself, the idea of "the singing instrument" comes from "Dangerous Kitchen".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBEh5dwNKk

as soon as I read this thread title I immediately thought "zappa, zappa, zappa"

Charles Spearin's The Happiness Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoLS9We9hl4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DOEUZmqO0&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DOEUZmqO0