Beats That Defy Boxes | Reggie Watts | TED
TED2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2013–2022
talk · general · evergreen · 2013–2022 on HN
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
Reggie Watts pretty much said it all back in 2012. ▶ this video Hard to imagine how anyone could follow up after this.
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