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: Questo è BeatJazz

Filmed: 2011-05-24

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Il musicista e inventore Onyx Ashanti offre una dimostrazione di "BeatJazz", la musica che egli stesso ha composto servendosi di due dispositivi di comando, uno per mano, un iPhone e uno strumento a bocca, e che egli suona con tutto il corpo. Alle Audizioni di TED Full Spectrum, assestati i ritmi e i circuiti, egli si esibisce in un suo pezzo con il quale, in 3 minuti, condivide la propria visione sul futuro della musica.

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TextTesto: BeatJazzBeatJazz.

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BeatJazzBeatJazz is:

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BeatJazz è

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1. LiveLive loopingLooping,

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1. Circuito musicale dal vivo

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2. JazzJazz improvisationimprovvisazione

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2. Improvvisazione jazzistica

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And

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3. "GesturalGestuale" soundsuono designdesign.

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3. Design sonoro "Gestuale"

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AccelerometersAccelerometri

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on eachogni handmano

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in ogni mano

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readleggere handmano positionposizione.

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leggono la posizione delle mani.

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The colorcolore of the lightsluci

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Il colore delle luci

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indicatesindica whichquale soundsuono I am playinggiocando.

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indica quale strumento io stia suonando

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RedRosso = DrumsBatteria,

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Rosso = Percussioni

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BlueBlu = BassBass,

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Blu = Basso

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GreenVerde = ChordsAccordi,

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Verde = Strumenti a corde

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OrangeOrange = LeadsConduce,

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Arancione = Leads

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Viola = Pads

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The mouthpieceboccaglio

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Lo strumento alla bocca

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consistsconsiste of ...

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consiste in...

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a buttonpulsante,

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un pulsante,

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two guitarchitarra pickspicconi

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due plettri per chitarra

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and lots of hotcaldo gluecolla.

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e molta colla a caldo.

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The heads-upHeads-up displaydisplay

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Il display di controllo

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is a smartphonesmartphone that displaysvisualizza systemsistema parametersparametri.

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è uno smartphone che mostra i parametri del sistema

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Why?

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Perché?

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To atomizeatomizzare musicmusica culturecultura

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Per atomizzare la cultura musicale.

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so that ALL pastpassato, presentpresente and futurefuturo genresgeneri

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Così che TUTTI i generi passati, presenti, e futuri,

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can be studiedstudiato and abstractedAcrobate, livevivere.

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si possano studiare e astrarre, dal vivo.

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"BeatJazzersBeatJazzers"

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coloro che fanno BeatJazz

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becomediventare as commonComune as D.J.'s'S.

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diventino tanto popolari quanto i DJ

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But mostlysoprattutto ...

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Ma soprattutto ..

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to MAKE the futurefuturo

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per CREARE il futuro

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ratherpiuttosto than wait for it.

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piuttosto che aspettare che arrivi.

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Translated by Elena Montrasio
Reviewed by Els De Keyser

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: Questo è BeatJazz | TED Talk | TED.com