Darren Foreman (aka Beardyman) is a Beatbox and Electronic Dance Music (EDM) artist from London. He is known for his ability to make an incredible range of sounds using only his voice. After seeing a performance by Rahzel, a pioneer in the world of beatbox, he became obsessed and went on to win the UK Beatbox Championship 2 years in a row. Later, he grew tired of the art form and its limitation of using only the human voice; he felt that it was a novelty at best, and realised it would be hard to sustain a musical career in beatbox alone (Beardyman Talks the BeardyTron_5000, 2013). This pushed him to start experimenting and incorporating technology into his live performance, such as loopers and audio effects, crafting the music he wrote around the technology he used. This technique inspired him to transition from beatboxer to musician/songwriter, and eventually would lead to the creation of his own music production platform called the Beardytron 5000. He began using live looping technology during performances with a friend in in café’s across London; looping beatbox, singing, and improvised lyrics over the top of a guitar. He states in an article in DJ Tech Tools that this was incredibly frustrating because the technology wouldn’t “play well with each other”, the loopers continually going out of time with one another mid-set (SWENSON, Kylee, 2012). After trying other looping technology such as Mobius and Looperlative, he realised the need for his live set up to be of a commercial standard. Non-commercial products were a problem for his live performance because the technology was unstable, unsupported, and kept crashing mid-set. Beardyman started looking towards commercial software such as Ableton Live, but found that, even though t... ... middle of paper ... ...foot controller to allow me to keep my hands free to play an instrument. Works Cited Beardyman One Album Per Hour: Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Online Video. Directed by THEAT29TV. Youtube. 2013. Beardyman Presents the Beardytron 5000. Online Video. Directed by BEARDYMAN. Beardyman. 2013. Beardyman Talks the BeardyTron_5000. Online Video. Directed by Roy ROONEY. London: Youtube. 2013. Beardyman: The Polyphonic Me. Online Video. Directed by TEDTALKS. TED. 2013. FOREMAN, Darren. 2013. London. SWENSON, Kylee. 2012. The Beardytron 5000 mkII: Building Beardyman’s Ultimate Live-Production System. [online]. [Accessed 11 March 2014]. Available from World Wide Web: RUSSELL, Shelly. 2009. Book Synthesis: An Introduction to Interactive Media Theory. [online].
What if all of a sudden your life changed and the next thing you know you find out you have magic in you. What would you do? who would you trust? This is what happens to a fourteen year old boy named Zachary Harriman in Hero by Mike lupica. Hero by Mike lupica is full of twists and turns and is a really good book. It all starts when Zach’s dad dies in a mysterious plane crash. Zach begins to investigate about his dad’s mysterious death because even though the police have concluded it was an accident he thinks otherwise. Throughout this book Zach learns a lot and overcomes and fails some challenges but is stronger in the end. Hero by Mike lupica is a really great book because of three things
Now that we all have this knowledge and have a language to deal with it visually, it’s the time to start dealing with some of the more playful things. We’ve accepted privilege, we’re conscious of all these major issues that the generation before us laid down. — Rashid Johnson
Alan Sitomer’s newest fast paced novel Homeboyz is a hardcore suspense story that will immediately put readers on the edge and leave them breathless in the end. Sitomer’s character, Teddy ‘T-Bear’ Anderson is an aloof seventeen year old that doesn’t care for anything other than to avenge his innocent fourteen year old sister Tina’s death, by targeting the infamous gang members of his city. As Teddy’s family mourns and his mother falls into a deep depression, his father Mr. Anderson, also known as Pops attempts to run the dysfunctional ailing household and his linen delivery company by himself. While Teddy observes his family, his desire to seek revenge grows stronger each day until he finally uses his extraordinary visionary skills to come up with a plan.
Ringing in the New Year, we’ve chosen an individual who has created his own music and created interesting remixes of other songs over the course of (now) 16 years. We enjoy the twists he plays on his music and admire his efforts to take his music to live performance stage. Local to Brick Township, NJ, Brian Stewart (DJversion666) started out, born and raised, in Evansville Indiana, playing in a multitude of bands, playing bass and/or singing various genres of music. Upon moving to Nashville, he has done studio work, laying down bass tracks for commercials and advertisements. Continuing down the path of music Stewart attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He combines various genres and ties them all together with an industrial sound.
In The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour the character Mathurin Kerbouchard is in search of his father. In the beginning Mathurin has an abundance of gold coins and tries to figure out where his father is. He goes on a boat and asks if they knew him. He didn’t have luck and is brought onto the boat as a slave. He convinces Walther, the captain, to let him be the pilot. He wants to go to Cadiz and finally persuades Walther to let him drive the boat there. In Cadiz he sells the boat while everyone is gone to a merchant named Ben Salom. He goes to Cordoba and meets Aziza. Aziza is royalty and they run away together. They go to the castle of Othman and guards find them and throw Kerbouchard in prison. He escapes and Eric wants to kill him. He meets a woman named Safia who is going to help him. Safia and Kerbouchard depart a couple times, but she is always there to help him. Kerbouchard finds Suzanne the Hansgraf who leads him on his journey around Europe. Suzanne departs at Constantinople when Kerbouchard has to go to Alamut. He finds his dad there and they stay together until he leaves to find his lover. Some of the most important characters in the book are Safia, Suzanne, and Jean Kerbouchard. The most important one of all is his dad, Jean, because they make enemies along the way and always keep going, Mathurin is searching for his father his whole journey, and his dad is his educator.
The fundamental characteristic of magical realism is its duality, which enables the reader to experience both the character’s past and the present. In the novel, Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson uses this literary device to address the the trauma and mistreatment of the Haisla community in Canada by unveiling the intimate memories of the protagonist, Lisamarie, and the resulting consequences of this oppression. Monkey Beach illustrates how abuse in the past leads to another form of self-medication in the future - a neverending, vicious cycle for the members of the Haisla community. Many characters in Monkey Beach are scarred from childhood sexual abuse and family neglect, and resort to drug and alcohol abuse as a coping mechanism. These appalling memories are an account of the impact of colonization on the Haisla territory which continues to haunt the Aboriginal community throughout generations.
In the book Bone Black, Bell Hooks gives a vivid look into her childhood. She starts off by talking about a quilt that her mother gave her from her mother. She thinks that this is special because her mother gave it to her and not one of her other sisters. Then she goes into describing how the children in her family never knew that they were poor until they grew up. They liked the dolls that they played with and the food that they ate. They never wondered why they didn’t have the things that their white neighbors did have. You would seldomly hear them complain because they had to walk to school and the white kids rode the school bus. She thought that they had a pretty normal family.
Merce Cunningham was known as a “leader of the American avant-garde whose constant innovation and artistic collaborations expanded the frontiers not only of dance, but also of contemporary visual and performing arts”. His passion and drive to succeed and push boundaries of dance and technology helped him throughout his career and in the building of his own dance establishment, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He also worked closely with the composer John Cage, where together they created different, new music. He was one of the most daring choreographers of his time regarding the exploration of technology in dance. He had begun to look into dance film in the 70’s, and further started to choreograph new dances using a computer program named ‘Dance Forms’. He also further created a webcast series where the public were able to view his teaching in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and could essentially sit in on the rehearsals
In the poem “My red face hurts” by Duncan Mercredi, the author has conveyed his message through describing the tragic events that are faced by many discriminated races to exemplify that people cannot face human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. Mercredi has portrayed his message because he wants to emphasize the racial hatred and inequality various different races are experiencing. To begin with, one of the main subjects that the author has expressed in his emotion-filled poem is racial discrimination, how people torture many races and treat them like animals only because of their color. Mercredi stated “my red face hurts as I watch my brother die before me white bullets riddle my body and I hide my face
What is the difference between effective or ineffective communication skills when working with children, this essay is determine to find out the appropriate ways to communicate with children by analyse, the video clip ‘Unloved’ by Tony Grison, where a young White British girl aged 11 was taken into care, due to her father being abusive towards her and mother not wanting to see her.
The book Push by Sapphire is unlike any other book on the AP novel list. It has a heavy topic that may not be suitable for all readers. It is told through the voice of a girl, who has already had a child at the age of 12, and is pregnant with another at the age of 16 from her father. The book explains the difficulties of life after something has happened to you, especially in a sexual manner. Also it is a story of how parents pretty much neglected their child and wanted her to live like her mother, which means living in her own filth, in a poor house off of child support checks. This story makes the reader wonder, why must parents do this to their children, what kinds of motifs do they have for essentially ruining their child’s life. I believe that this is a story that people must know, but not necessarily for the eyes and ears of all high school students.
What do we learn about life in the 18th century and how successfully does the writer convey this information whilst telling us a good story?
The Play "Sure Thing" from David Ives examines the endless variations of boy meets girl and the ensuing pick up lines. The central theme throughout the play displays a few varieties of a possible conversation that end with a ringing bell that symbolizes a fresh start and a second chance to make a good impression.
The most abundance evidence for Haliburton's targets in "The Clockmaker" is Americans. "The Clockmaker" was written when Nova Scotia had "No capital or markets and with a population which had acquired habits that were not suited for a life of meagre income and sober farming" (Klinck, 92-101). Haliburton blamed the Americans for this. One of the reasons he wrote "The Clockmaker" was to enlighten Nova Scotia and the rest of the world about the true heritage and resources of the colony. "The salvation of Nova Scotia could only come, he felt through a marked change in habits of its people, he would have them emulate the thrift, hard work and ingenuity of their Yankee neighbours" (Klinck 92-101). Haliburton targeted Americans because he considers that if tainting the American image, people's perspectives of them it would change and so would the opinions of being more independent. When targeting Americans Haliburton used humour and irony as satirical methods. "How is it that an American can sell his wares, at whatever price he pleases, where a blue-nose would fail to make a sail at all?"(83). It is ironic because Americans are at the top of the food chain when it comes to development and political power, so they are able to sell there wares at what ever price they want.
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda is far different from any other novel that we were assigned to read for apartheid in South Africa class. I had quite a love/hate relationship for the book, for it intrigued me, but I had to read it far too fast and don’t think that I got the true value of the book as I speed-read it. The first thing I noticed about the novel was of course the colorful cover, but when I thought about the title long enough I noticed that it sounded vaguely familiar. I had to read the Heart of Darkness while in high school, and not until I researched the book a little on the internet, was I able to actually correlate the title between the two. Apparently, the title Heart of Redness is actually an allusion to the Heart of Darkness by presenting an opposite presentation of the themes.