Beardyman’s Christmas Message

Beardyman comforts us all with glad tidings and christmas spirit at this, the season of love, expenditure, enforced merriment and drunk driving.  OT – because he’s not doing his usual electronic looping – but still fun.

Beardyman’s Monkey Jazz From All Angles

  A while back, we featured a video of Beardyman doing Monkey Jazz, noting that “he uses live looping technology to make synthesizers, drum machines and other musicians obsolete.” This is a chance to see all the camera angles, unedited, from the original Monkey Jazz video sessions.

Beardyman Promo For YouTube Live

This is a little off-topic, but still entertaining. Beardyman – the UK beatbox champ – promos his appearance on the upcoming YouTube Live event, to be held on November 22nd.  Beardyman does beatboxing in combination with a looper to created fully arranged musical tracks live. Check out this previous post on Beardyman for an example.

Sound Library Features Noises Of The Human Body. No! Not Those Noises!

SONiVOX MI has released Anatomy, a sample library for Kontakt that features exclusively human body sounds. Anatomy offers over eight-hundred instruments that “twist and transform the human body into one expansive collection of physiological melody and rhythm. Anatomy sonically explores the human condition in ways never dared attempted previously, delivering you a deep, diverse &… Read More Sound Library Features Noises Of The Human Body. No! Not Those Noises!

Using Ableton Live For Beatboxing

Kid Beyond is a singer/songwriter, beatboxer and looper. He uses Ableton Live to loop and multitrack his voice onstage to create his own live backing tracks In this video, sponsored by Ableton, he talks about how he creates his tracks and demonstrates using a pedalboard and live to create complex, multi-layered grooves.