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TEDx Talks
Published: 2013-07-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNZBSZD16cY
my name's home and I've come here today to come clean about what I do for money %HESITATION basically I use my mouth in strange ways %HESITATION I usually do this kind of thing CD downtown Bazm 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 it did you get here
n't and now on the next number I'd like to return to the classics we didn and take it back we time from from from from from yeah so thank you very much today if you guys haven't figured it out already %HESITATION my name's Tom Thumb and I'm a big box of which means all the sounds that you just heard were made entirely using just my voice
and the only thing was my voice %HESITATION and I can assure you no offense on this microphone and I'm very very stark yeah blood brothers names right what is mom who made it I'm very very stuck to be here today you know like representing my kinfolk and all those that haven't managed to make a career out of it innate ability for in human noise making our
because you know it is a bit of a niche market and there's not much work going on especially where I'm from %HESITATION you know I'm from Brisbane which is a great city to live in our I'm most Brisbane's in a good well you know breezy %HESITATION 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 %HESITATION 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 Mr ladies and gentleman I would like take you on a journey throughout the continents and throughout sound
itself we started journey in the central desserts I'm able yeah sh India bill trying geometry her whole mmhm and if all we reach our final desk I would like to share with you some technology that I brought all the way from the thriving metropolis of %HESITATION these things in front of me via a cold Taos pads and they allow me to do a whole lot of
different things with my voice for example the one on the left you know allows me to add a little bit of Riva to myself which gives me that and and the the other ones here you know I can use them in unison to %HESITATION 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 patio all Jared ex X. it takes I always give us some of my hands and last but not least the one on my right here allows me to well my voice so with all that in mind ladies and gentleman I would like to take you on a journey to a completely separate pot of earth as I transform the Sydney Opera House
into was smoky downtown jazz by I abilities take it away ladies and gentlemen I'd like to do this too distress of friend of mine one of the greatest double basis I know just the small the Jefferson has taken off come on baby there there are there are ladies and gentlemen when did you start a self one of the greatest jazz that that wasn't dad we get
