Beats That Defy Boxes | Reggie Watts | TED
TED2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2013-2022
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Reggie Watts performs at TED 2012, blending vocal looping, beatboxing, poetry and comedy across musical genres in a larger-than-life improvised set.
HN points to it as a memorable performance that doubles as a parody of TED talks and a showcase of live vocal looping.
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4 comments from Hacker News
Also recommend everything by Reggie Watts, a master of the vocal layering technique. His TED talk is one for the ages: ▶ this video
Your comment reminded me of Reggie Watts’ TED talk where he impersonates an intellectual TED talk by stringing together random big words in a British accent. ▶ this video
Here is Reggie Watts, at actual TED, near as I can tell live synthesizing a ted-talk out of radiation picked up through his hair. ▶ this video
Reggie Watts pretty much said it all back in 2012. ▶ this video Hard to imagine how anyone could follow up after this.