ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Onyx Ashanti - Beatjazz inventor and controllerist
Onyx Ashanti is the inventor of "beatjazz" -- a new way to make music.

Why you should listen

Onyx Ashanti is a musician, geek, open-source advocate, Maker, collaborator ... and we come back around again to musician. The intrumentation he has created fuses technique and technology into a full-body musical system, playable with hands, arms, mouth and body. As he says:

I am what can only be described as a cyborg musician.  in other words, the music i create live, can not be replicated without technology. My music is called "Beatjazz." It is a mix of sound design, live looping and jazz improvisation. My instrument of choice over the years has been a Yamaha Wind MIDI controller, but now the limitations have started to stunt the growth of this new form, so i designed an instrument that can take it into future.

He is now working on the next iteration of his instrument, codenamed Tron, and built around a helmet-mounted controller.

More profile about the speaker
Onyx Ashanti | Speaker | TED.com
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Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz

Onyx Ashanti: Este é o beatjazz

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Músico e inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstra o “beatjazz” – sua música criada com dois controles de mão, um iPhone, um bocal e tocada com todo o corpo. Nas audições do TED Full Spectrum, após instalar seus ritmos e loops ele toca uma música de 3 minutos compartilhando sua visão para o futuro da música.
- Beatjazz inventor and controllerist
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Text: BeatJazz.
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Texto: BeatJazz
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BeatJazz is:
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O beatJazz é
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1. Live looping,
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1. ‘Looping’ ao vivo
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2. Jazz improvisation
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2. Improvisação de jazz
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And
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3. "Gestural" sound design.
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3. um design sonoro “Gestual”
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Accelerometers
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Os acelerômetros
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on each hand
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em em cada mão
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read hand position.
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lêem a posição delas
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The color of the lights
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A cor das luzes
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indicates which sound I am playing.
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indica que som que estou tocando
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Red = Drums,
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Vermelha = percussão
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Blue = Bass,
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Azul = Baixo
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Green = Chords,
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Verde = instrumento de Cordas
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Orange = Leads,
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Laranja = Leads
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Purple = Pads
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Roxo = Pads
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The mouthpiece
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O bocal
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consists of ...
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consiste de ...
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a button,
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um botão,
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two guitar picks
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duas palhetas de guitarra
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and lots of hot glue.
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e um monte de cola quente
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The heads-up display
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O display de controle
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is a smartphone that displays system parameters.
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é um smartphone que mostra os parâmetros do sistema
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Why?
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Por que?
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To atomize music culture
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Para atomizar a cultura da música
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so that ALL past, present and future genres
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de modo que TODOS os gêneros, passado, presente e futuro
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can be studied and abstracted, live.
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possam ser estudados e extraídos ao vivo.
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And
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"BeatJazzers"
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Os “BeatJazzers”
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become as common as D.J.'s.
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tornam-se tão comuns quanto os DJs
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But mostly ...
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Mas principalmente ...
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to MAKE the future
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para se FAZER o futuro
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rather than wait for it.
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em vez de se esperar por ele.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Nadja Nathan
Reviewed by Wanderley Jesus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Onyx Ashanti - Beatjazz inventor and controllerist
Onyx Ashanti is the inventor of "beatjazz" -- a new way to make music.

Why you should listen

Onyx Ashanti is a musician, geek, open-source advocate, Maker, collaborator ... and we come back around again to musician. The intrumentation he has created fuses technique and technology into a full-body musical system, playable with hands, arms, mouth and body. As he says:

I am what can only be described as a cyborg musician.  in other words, the music i create live, can not be replicated without technology. My music is called "Beatjazz." It is a mix of sound design, live looping and jazz improvisation. My instrument of choice over the years has been a Yamaha Wind MIDI controller, but now the limitations have started to stunt the growth of this new form, so i designed an instrument that can take it into future.

He is now working on the next iteration of his instrument, codenamed Tron, and built around a helmet-mounted controller.

More profile about the speaker
Onyx Ashanti | Speaker | TED.com
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