Our adorably naive opera singer has just discovered beatboxing
Trained opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, someone who was so caught up in opera when she was younger that she missed a couple generations’ worth of popular music, is making a
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Fun with MRIs: Here’s what’s going on in a beatboxer’s head when performing
How does a beatboxer get those percussive sounds using just their mouths? Nimisha Patil is not only a researcher at USC’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, but she’s also a
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Random music news for Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Day two of my solo staycation. Maybe I’ll clean out the shed today. Or maybe I’ll just post some music news for August 7, 2018, and go back to bed.
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Kinda cool, kinda gross: A real time MRI view of a beatboxer’s lips, tongue, and throat
People who can beatbox–i.e. create beats with their mouth–can make some fascinating sounds. This MRI shows what’s happening inside the head of a guy named Gaucho who is very, very
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US Presidents Used to Bomb Vietnam. Now They Just Beatbox
Barack Obama is in the midst of a historic trip to Vietnam, the country that defeated the US in what the Vietnamese called “The American War.” (Makes sense, doesn’t? The
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Random Music News for Friday, April 29, 2016
Did you know there was an experimental 3D TV broadcast on this date in 1953? Neither did I. And now, the music news… Amazing: The owner of American Idol has
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Has This Guy Made the Recorder–You Know, That Flute Thing–Cool?
Chances are that over the course of your elementary schooling, you were forced to learn how to play the recorder. I was–and I found it to be a hateful, tuneless
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On this date in 1992, Johnny Carson hosted his last Tonight Show after 30 years. Here’s an interesting list of 12 totally fake and fictional rock and pop bands. Here’s
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Is Beatboxing Safer Than Singing?
That seems like a silly headline, but it’s actually from Scientific American. Check it out. [R]esearchers took a close look at what happens inside the throat as the beat goes
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The Beatboxing Baby [VIDEO]
Adorable alert! Background can be found here.
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