Reaction to Beatbox brilliance | Tom Thum | TEDxSydney

what it do homies it's your boy dave and i'm back today we are here with something different for my beatbox subscribers this time we're gonna check out beatbox brilliance by tom thumb now i have her top thumb battle i'm pretty sure i have you guys know how bad i am uh with names but we about to check out a ted talk okay and i think he's about to give us a little low down of some beatbox so let's shut up and learn oh this is 2013 james tom and i've come here today to come clean about what i do for money basically i use my mouth in strange ways in exchange for cash uh i usually do this kind of thing in cd downtown bars and you guys remember you guys remember those things that said poorly explain what your job is without directly saying it that's an excellent description i use my mouth to make weird sounds in exchange for cash then you like a weird things in exchange for cash yeah i definitely get a lot of people thinking what on street corners so this might be the most appropriate setting but i'd like to give you guys a bit of a demonstration about what i do go ahead [Music] [Laughter] is [Music] no way [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] and now for my next number okay hold on before he jumps into that bro imagine this i don't know how many beatboxes been on the ted talk show but you got to remember that to a lot of these people that probably attended this i would think some of them are already familiar with the beatboxing right or you uh or you just simply curious so in this instance if he was the first person to get up there on ted talk ted talk and talk about beatbox just imagine the amount of pressure that you must feel right you got to go up there and pretty much represent the beatbox community to these people who ain't never seen it even to the people who's even watching this for the first time you just now hopping on my video and you ain't even subscribe for beatbox videos but you're gonna sit here and watch this tom thumb right tom doom right here is being like he's like literally kind of like your pioneer right now you learning about beatbox now i wanted to really pause because i wanted to touch on that record thing that he did now what was the most impressive about that was the old loafy scratch his sound he would he did on that house way absolutely how i don't even know bro it was so clean i was sitting there looking at his mouth i see him doing it all i saw this i don't even know how you did it bro [Music] and now for my next number i'd like to return to the classics that's right if michael jackson hold on before he jumps into that see see you know what i'm saying man artists got a very distinctive sound when it comes to the snare it's not about it's about the tune it's about the sound it's about the tone i don't know it as soon as he did that i was like michael jackson immediately i can only do this to a certain amount of songs that i know have heard a very very long time or all i gotta do is hear like three seconds of it and i can tell you exactly what it is but he did the tone of the snare and the kick so it was a yeah that's there now and the kick so perfectly so okay [Applause] [Music] please [Music] blah i didn't want them to clap because i know the beatbox community on battles they know how to keep tempo because most of them in there are beatboxers but again assuming that most of these people are either interested in or have no idea with beatboxing sometimes clapping just throw the entire mood off and it just annoys me i don't know why i know they want to feel evolved but they did a pretty good job though so thank you very much tedx if you guys haven't figured it out already uh my name is tom thumb and i'm a beatboxer which means all the sounds that you just heard were made entirely using just my voice and the only thing was my voice uh and i can assure you there are absolutely no effects on this microphone whatsoever and i'm very very stoked for all the knees look at this mum i made it [Applause] i'm very very stoked to be here today you know like representing my kin folk and all those that haven't managed to make a career out of an innate ability for inhuman noisemaking because you know it is a bit of a niche market and there's not much work going on especially where i'm from uh you know i'm from brisbane which is a great city to live in you all right most of brisbane's here that's good no um you know i'm from brisbane uh which is a great city to live in but you know let's be honest it's not exactly the cultural hub of the southern hemisphere so i do a lot of my work uh outside brisbane and outside australia and so the pursuit of this crazy passion of mine has enabled me to see so many amazing places in the world so i'd like to share with you if i may my experiences so ladies and gentlemen i would like to take you on a journey throughout the continents and throughout okay sound we go y'all we start our journey in the central deserts [Music] india [Music] china [Music] dance like house [Applause] yeah hey that was amazing oh my goodness cause that's definitely the type of stuff you would hear like if you outside the club are you trying to get in like that muted sound that was absolutely amazing he he he did a touch on something right there when he was talking about he get to see places that he would have never saw thanks to his uh his crazy passion you know and you start thinking about all these type of cultural differences and how everybody does at least something with their voice i think of uh what's her name yoko anno i think that's how you pronounce her name bro her voice is so unique so unique and you definitely need to listen to a couple of her songs like multiple times in order to kind of understand what's going on because of the first listen you over here like what am i listening to but tom right here he takes he's take those things as a learning experience right because all the cultures are different you know what i'm saying and he's learned how to he's learned how to put that in there and and he's able to mimic these sounds so he's practicing a lot of times but then you start you start wondering now you got this wide arsenal this wide two arsenal things you could just grab from to push together mask together and create your own new sound it's super important to always be hungry and on the lookout for new sounds i didn't really think of this um when i was watching the beatbox battles about how much i mean i know i know sound influenced beatboxers but how much other cultural sounds play into a part of of beatboxers making their routines and i know it extends even a loop station this is a new thought to me i don't know why but it's just a new thought that's amazing now i got something else to look out for when i look at these beatbox battles that was amazing and before we reach our final destination ladies and gentlemen i would like to share with you some technology that i brought all the way from the thriving metropolis of brisbane uh these things in front of me here are called chaos pads okay and they allow me to do a whole lot of different things with my voice for example the one on the left here allows me to add a little bit of reverb to my sound which gives me that [Music] flavor and uh the other ones here you know i can use them in unison to mimic the effect of a drum machine or something like that i can sample in my own sounds and i can play it back just by hitting the pads here [Music] ted x [Music] [Applause] too much time on my hands and last but not least the one on my right here allows me to loop bloop bloop bloop blow my voice so with all that in mind ladies and gentlemen i would like to take you on a journey to a completely separate part of earth as i transform the sydney opera house into a smoky downtown jazz bar all right boys take it away ladies and gentlemen i'd like to introduce to you a very special friend of mine one of the greatest double basses i know mr smokey jefferson let's take it for a while come on baby [Music] hi ladies and gentlemen i'd like to introduce you the star the show one of the greatest jazz legends of our time music lovers and jazz lovers alike please give a warm hand of applause for the one and only mr peeping tom take it away [Applause] [Music] no he did it [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] jumbo [Music] [Laughter] [Music] blah [Music] thank you thank you very much that was absolutely amazing and also what an amazing performer and uh performer and uh presenter tom is man that was absolutely enjoyable and you took some things out of it right it was just a quick 11 minute session about what beatbox is and we enjoyed every minute of it baby that was amazing absolutely bro and i think we heard some nate dog in here uh what was it i like the way you're working no duh go no dig no diggity that's what it was i got the baby that ain't a dog is it no wow why am i forgetting the name i know what he was saying i like that flavor there boy see he played that familiar game right because when you're introducing something to people who don't know nothing about it you can't just go out there and just start doing just whatever you know ask some type of familiar ask them that's going to attach them to something that they like and they'll appreciate it a little bit more so he did a wonderful job at that i mean think about all the stuff we learned right he talked about his he talked about his ability he talked about how he gains inspiration from all the other cultures when it comes you know to uh when it comes to making his own sound he talked about the technology he talked about you know just using like like before even looping just playing like uh like what you would do on like a like a like like a controller like a media controller when you just put in sounds and you play them as you want and then he gave us some loop like we got pretty much the this was like literally beat box 101 and this was done back in 2013. that loop station thing that he was using that looked archaic compared to what i've seen look like one of the earlier stages of blue station but i don't know how early loop loop station uh is i feel like it's it might even be older than me now that i think about it not to kind of think about the basics of it but who knows y'all y'all let me know what y'all thought about this down in the comments that's the end of this video if you enjoyed the content leave a like and subscribe dave's out you

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Length: 18min 8sec (1088 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020