Name: What happens in your throat when you beatbox? | Tom Thum & Dr Matthew Broadhurst | TEDxSydney
Uploaded: 2021-04-08T10:24:55.000Z
Duration: 13 min 36 s
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Translator: Ludovica Harley Reviewer: Cristina Santana Darias

and I've got to say it's a pleasure to be back at TEDx.

When I first stepped upon the Sydney stage in 2013

I had no idea that I was about to deliver the most watched TEDx presentation ever.

But you know, I was stoked because it was completely unexpected.

as a slightly inflated, time-battered version of myself five years later,

I guess if you distilled it right down to its essence,

it means that, professionally, I am 100 percent reliant on the -

flexibility of the unfiltered human voice.

And for years, my contemporaries and I have been fielding questions like,

When did you figure out you could do that?"

After I practiced for thousands and thousands of hours.

But there is one question that I get quite a lot

that's a little bit more difficult to answer.

And, I mean, I know muscle memory dictates where I position my lips

But I have no idea about the inner mechanics of everything.

You know, all the flappy bits and kind of dangly things

and how they interact in a way that allows me to -

So, I decided to find out and invite 5,000 captive strangers,

everybody watching online and their browser history

into a place where not even the most intimate of encounters have been:

I'd like to introduce to the stage a very specialist guest,

a man that's been in my mouth more times than I'd care to admit,

Matthew Broadhurst: Thank you, Tom. Thank you.

It is a pleasure to be here on the TEDx stage tonight.

MB: We set out a little while ago to try to go deep into the world -

to try to understand how such a vast array of sounds is humanly possible.

naso-pharyngo-laryngoscopic analysis of a beatboxer.

we use the vocal cords to take air from the lungs,

and then turn it into a vibrating air column

we've got the mouthpiece - that's the vocal folds -

and left you as a torso with just your vocal folds vibrating,

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What happens in your throat when you beatbox? | Tom Thum & Dr Matthew Broadhurst | TEDxSydney

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