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

Filmed: 2011-05-24

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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.

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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

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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