Tom Thum and Matthew Broadhurst: What happens in your throat when you beatbox?
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it's a pleasure to be back at TEDx.
upon the Sydney stage in 2013
the most watched TEDx presentation ever.
because it was completely unexpected.
version of myself five years later,
and walked-out-on,
with what I do,
right down to its essence,
of the unfiltered human voice.
have been fielding questions like,
you could do that?"
and thousands of hours --
that I get quite a lot
more difficult to answer,
dictates where I position my lips
mechanics of everything.
and kind of dangly things
and their browser history
intimate of encounters have been ...
a very specialist guest
more times than I'd care to admit,
on the TEDx stage tonight.
to try to go deep into the world --
array of sounds are humanly possible.
was something absolutely amazing.
of laryngeal surgery
Steven Zeitels,
as extraordinary or fascinating as this,
to show you tonight.
who might be a little squeamish,
will get incrementally more graphic
to take air from the lungs
air column in the throat.
that's the vocal folds --
with just your vocal folds vibrating,
but fortunately we've got a throat.
all the incredible dynamics of sound
image of the larynx we can get.
to show you how this all works.
matched with the stroboscope.
flickering in the cup.
and the sound just out of sync.
slow-motion activity of vibrating tissues.
of the vibrating vocal folds.
to get on and do.
a look at the voice box.
you see the vocal cords,
the light is to penetrate the skin.
the lights back on?
a comfortable "e."
absolutely, perfectly normal.
all those sounds for years
go from high pitch to low pitch.
and skinny to short and fat.
is that his vocal range is so extreme --
performer I've worked with --
the really high pitches.
is somewhere around 2,092 hertz.
just to make that sound.
they're only 15 millimeters long,
can do such a thing.
over to the flexible laryngoscope.
this bit perfectly
for local anesthetic.
get the camera in.
a lot of the sounds,
of what's happening.
and let's see what we can do.
we make from day to day,
precisely against the back of the nose.
snapping against the back of the throat.
it looks like when Tom does it.
and cockatoos in Kakadu
for all sorts of different effects.
a little further.
the light in the mouth somewhere.
where the camera is at.
that's the base of the tongue.
larynxes and throats in my time,
is as anatomically normal
of all the muscles and soft tissues
sounds that you're going to hear.
of these sounds for you now.
is he's changing the shape
of all the muscles
that you're hearing.
rhythmic movements of the --
cartilages way down there,
to create that different sound.
this "sphincter bass."
is that collapsing all the tissue down --
of really deep bass note.
anesthetic on board,
a sliver of his repertoire
who came to get deep,
and build from scratch.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Tom Thum - BeatboxerHip-hop musician Tom Thum whirls together beatboxing, performance and an array of mouthsounds.
Why you should listen
Coming out of the small Brisbane, Australia, hip-hop scene, Tom Thum has become a world presence with his unhuman beatboxing sound. In 2005, he and Joel Turner won the team battle in the World Beatbox Championships, and Thum came second at the Scribble Jam Beatbox Battles, America’s most prestigious hip-hop competition, in 2006. He's a cast member in the hip-hop/circus performance troupe Tom Tom Crew, appearing on Broadway and London's West End.
Thum is also committed to teaching hip-hop, and travels throughout Australia sharing the positive message that music preaches.
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Matthew Broadhurst - Ear, nose and throat surgeon
Matthew Broadhurst is an ear, nose and throat surgeon based in Brisbane, Australia.
Why you should listen
Matthew Broadhurst is Australia's first fellowship-trained laryngeal surgeon practicing in laryngology and voice restoration. His practice primarily involves management of voice and throat disorders and sleep-disordered breathing, including snoring and sleep apnea.
Broadhurst has a unique ability to provide assessment and management strategies for patients with voice disorders -- including hoarseness, vocal cord paralysis, throat cancer and more -- that are beyond the scope of general ear, nose and throat surgeons. He worked under the direct instruction of Steven Zeitels, a world leader and innovator in laryngeal surgery and voice restoration who was recently acknowledged at the Grammy's as the surgeon who restored the multi-platinum, award-winning artist Adele.
In Brisbane, Broadhurst performs groundbreaking specialized laryngeal surgical techniques using both 4K ultra-high definition microscopy and full high-definition video stroboscopy. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Flinders University in 1996, and subsequently obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in 2005.
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