Beardyman (prepare to have your mind blown)

[Gridfan]

Beatboxing
Anyone heard of beatboxing before?

If you haven't then it's the "art" of making sounds using your mouth.
One of the best is Beardyman (2 times world champion).

Beardyman
Besides being insanely good, he's also a great stage performer, interacting with the crowd.
Beardyman Wheel of Sound

Master of Improv Collaboration
(Violin + Beatbox improv)
Hilary Hahn & Beardyman part1
Hilary Hahn & Beardyman part2

Interviews
Will Cozens Radio Show
Boing Boing TV
Australian TV Interview

Live Looping
But Beardyman goes a few steps further, he also uses a technique called Live Looping.

If you haven't heard of Live Looping it's the "art" of looping/mixing/adding effects etc live. I believe Fatboy Slim and many others do this in concerts.

But... Beardyman does it using only his voice as the instrument.

In other words he: records, loops, sequences, adds effects (echo/phase/pitch), playback, all live WHILE beatboxing at the same time as well as entertaining and interacting with the crowd.

Some people think he's cheating with pre-recorded stuff, but he's not.
If you pay close attention you'll see that sometimes he moves his mouth but none of the sounds you hear matches. That is him lining up the next loops/beats/sounds, and at the flick of a button or two he kicks them in.
And unlike most Live Loop talents, since he's beatboxing he's able to correct or add "missing pieces" on the fly in a way that few synth masters are able to do it if at all.

How he avoids loosing his train of thought I have no idea.

Here is a long set of him: (8 parts)
Cargo part1
Cargo part2
Cargo part3
Cargo part4
Cargo part5
Cargo part6
Cargo part7
Cargo part8

How the hell...
If you really want to know "how" he does it, look closely at this clip:
Monkey Jazz
It is edited in such a way (and him fooling around with various headwear) to let you see when which sounds are looped.
In other words he'll put on one type hat when he does a sound, and each time that sound repeats you'll see a mini image of that appear.
Beardyman is amazing at "thinking ahead" otherwise he wouldn't be able to do this and make it sound so good.

More clips:
Human Beatbox Convention 2007
Bestival 07
Beatbox Convention 2008 part1
Beatbox Convention 2008 part2
Roskilde 2008 part1
Roskilde 2008 part2
Bloom 2008 part1
Bloom 2008 part2
Bloom 2008 part3

For even more, check out the official Beardyman youtube channel,
or search youtube for even more.

[Shigy]

Gonna have to watch this after my show...always like beatboxing.

[Chaimera]

That dude is wicked! Kickass stuff there.

[Lauri]

Yes!

Beardyman is ... the man.

[Shigy]

Thats freaking awesome

[Robotsarebad]

I have heard some of his stuff before and he impresses the hell out of me, really cool stuff, hes perfecting his art bloody talented vocal abilities ..

he did a track for the qemists you can hear here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhSBi9v ... re=related

not sure if that was put in beardyman's videos section (he had alot in there )

[Bluerush2]

Damn that guy is friggin awesome, I've seen a ton of vids but never heard of that guy Thanks for the heads up!