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From the Ted Talk by Mark Applebaum: The mad scientist of music

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It's better with a fsorilt, right? (Laughter) (Music) Or at least it's less brniog. Let's watch a couple more clips. (Music)

So with all these theatric elements, this pushes me in another role, and that would be, possibly, the dramaturge. I was playing nice. I had to write the orsrehcta bits, right? Okay? But then there was this other stuff, right? There was the florist, and I can understand that, once again, we're ptintug pressure on the ontology of msuic as we know it conventionally, but let's look at one last pecie today I'm going to share with you.

This is going to be a piece cleald "Aphasia," and it's for hand gestures synchronized to suond, and this invites yet another role, and final one I'll share with you, which is that of the choreographer. And the score for the piece looks like this, and it instructs me, the performer, to make various hand gestures at very sfpeicic times synchronized with an audio tape, and that audio tape is made up exclusively of vocal samples. I recorded an awesome singer, and I took the sound of his voice in my computer, and I werapd it in countless ways to come up with the soundtrack that you're about to hear. And I'll perform just an ercexpt of "Aphasia" for you here. Okay? (Music) So that gives you a little taste of that piece. (Applause)

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It's better with a _______, right? (Laughter) (Music) Or at least it's less ______. Let's watch a couple more clips. (Music)

So with all these theatric elements, this pushes me in another role, and that would be, possibly, the dramaturge. I was playing nice. I had to write the _________ bits, right? Okay? But then there was this other stuff, right? There was the florist, and I can understand that, once again, we're _______ pressure on the ontology of _____ as we know it conventionally, but let's look at one last _____ today I'm going to share with you.

This is going to be a piece ______ "Aphasia," and it's for hand gestures synchronized to _____, and this invites yet another role, and final one I'll share with you, which is that of the choreographer. And the score for the piece looks like this, and it instructs me, the performer, to make various hand gestures at very ________ times synchronized with an audio tape, and that audio tape is made up exclusively of vocal samples. I recorded an awesome singer, and I took the sound of his voice in my computer, and I ______ it in countless ways to come up with the soundtrack that you're about to hear. And I'll perform just an _______ of "Aphasia" for you here. Okay? (Music) So that gives you a little taste of that piece. (Applause)

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Original Text


It's better with a florist, right? (Laughter) (Music) Or at least it's less boring. Let's watch a couple more clips. (Music)

So with all these theatric elements, this pushes me in another role, and that would be, possibly, the dramaturge. I was playing nice. I had to write the orchestra bits, right? Okay? But then there was this other stuff, right? There was the florist, and I can understand that, once again, we're putting pressure on the ontology of music as we know it conventionally, but let's look at one last piece today I'm going to share with you.

This is going to be a piece called "Aphasia," and it's for hand gestures synchronized to sound, and this invites yet another role, and final one I'll share with you, which is that of the choreographer. And the score for the piece looks like this, and it instructs me, the performer, to make various hand gestures at very specific times synchronized with an audio tape, and that audio tape is made up exclusively of vocal samples. I recorded an awesome singer, and I took the sound of his voice in my computer, and I warped it in countless ways to come up with the soundtrack that you're about to hear. And I'll perform just an excerpt of "Aphasia" for you here. Okay? (Music) So that gives you a little taste of that piece. (Applause)

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