I'm experimenting with a friend of mine at the mo' using what they call Musique Concrete as a kind of aural scenic setting to ballads.. It's sounding pretty strange and abstract right now. I'm not sure if it will ultimately work but and I've threatened Jim Carroll with it, once it's done so he can be horrified by me horribly assaulting these poor helpless old songs!

Musique Concrete as song accompaniment is what MacColl and Parker were doing in the Radio Ballads with all those sound effects, only they didn't call it that. (For that matter, their mix of song and spoken word was pretty similar to what a folksong/rap fusion achieves).