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Beats That Defy Boxes | Reggie Watts | TED
Reggie Watts performs at TED 2012, blending vocal looping, beatboxing, poetry and comedy across musical genres in a larger-than-life improvised set.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a memorable performance that doubles as a parody of TED talks and a showcase of live vocal looping.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- vocal looping performance
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Also recommend everything by Reggie Watts, a master of the vocal layering technique. His TED talk is one for the ages: [VIDEO]
bitwize on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth soundsReggie Watts pretty much said it all back in 2012. [VIDEO] Hard to imagine how anyone could follow up after this.
mxfh on Hacker News · 2013-12
In We Need to Talk About TED
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.