Freestyle Love Supreme | Live from Here with Chris Thile

oh it gives my improv loving heart so much fun to make welcome Anthony vineet CRA anis appeals of Chris Sullivan from the fully improvised Broadway phenomenon freestyle Love Supreme thank you so very much what an honor to be here this evening we are freestyle Love Supreme and we do a completely improvised freestyle rap show every night on Broadway and yeah so naturally we were brought here to talk about the weather you might be thinking what's the connection here and if there is a correlation is it spurious at best thank you for asking no one what we would like to answer is that there is sometimes movements inside of your brain there are these clouds sometimes that will affect us in our creativity and that actually can be traced to a very specific part of your brain called the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex it's almost like that dark cloud that follows you around and says why did you wear that shirt so many flowers or I bet you there spinach and your teeth they had rollatini downstairs why would you eat that so that cloud sometimes can really get in our way and what we do is we try to activate a different part of our brain where there might be a couple more sundogs that beam through those clouds it's called the medial lateral prefrontal cortex it gets really activated when you do this stuff when you make up things on the spot and that's exactly what we are about to do and we need your help to do it because one of the most important parts of that is a bit of a beatboxing journey with shockwave she's gonna do something we think hopefully send you out with a new skills that you can take home tonight boots cuts boots cuts it's that easy right so everybody here repeat after me the word boots now say the word cuts now take the word boots and instead of saying the word say more of the sounds of it have that plosive book to the boot and then that deep blue for the boots and that TS sound at the end is actually the second sound you'd be making which is that hi-hat sound so everybody say boots again now let's say it more with that percussive be that deep blue and that percussive at the end so ready one two three now the word cuts is the same kind of idea that hard a hard C sound is the really percussive part weird sitting the snare drum so we want to hit that that C sound that's really hard everybody do that right now yeah and that get that really that deep oh that grunt sound for the that's the size of the drum right that could and that TS we've already done it so we've already mastered it so now on the count of three everybody say the word cuts one two three awesome now let's say both those words one after another I'll start boots cuts boots cuts keep going now turn them into sounds alright you're all natural beatboxers now [Applause] wonderful and now we're gonna take it the next step we're gonna add in an MC so in order to do that we need to be inspired by you so we're gonna get some words that are weather-related so how about you shout out words when you hear the word weather what does it make you think go ahead just shout them out we're gonna start writing some down rainbows precipitation radar okay great hold on one second I'm gonna call for certain areas cuz I'm hearing a lot and I love it all but just give me one second hey what do you say boxes those are some fancy seats give us some fancy words what you got what is it frostbite oh nice one okay rainbow radar for us what else sleet beaches what was that beach day oh nice yeah beach day and then how about over in the front over here young person do you have something for us weather cumulonimbus oh yeah well I think we have a good smattering of words yeah all right I'm gonna throw a couple of these words to young niece who's on Mike - she will have to instantaneously incorporate these words over the beats provided by shockwave young niece your first words this is rainbow all right yeah yeah yeah I got this I dropped the rainbow today you know your girl has the pride I like the rain so I'm gonna stay inside cuz I chill all my fingers I'm coming because you know I'm gonna play into the Wildwood walk oh yeah I got so much sweat on my brow take you down that's a child with the pound around around coming down you just wanna found out you dumb with us that's all right we overhead like cumulus okay [Music] all right now you all here thank you very much freestyle Love Supreme

Channel: Live from Here

Views: 8,368

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Live from Here, Chris Thile, Radio, Public Radio, freestyle love supreme, lin-manuel miranda, broadway, improv, freestyle, Anthony Veneziale, Aneesa Folds, chris sullivan

Id: -P670jr6VC8

Length: 7min 47sec (467 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019