Beatboxing is the art of creating and imitating rhythmic patterns and melodies with the help of the vocal apparatus and articulations of the mouth organs. In this case, modern beatboxing technique includes many other areas as well. Beatboxing is most often used as an accompaniment in hip-hop compositions. Beatboxing is considered the fifth element in hip-hop culture.
Beatboxing is associated with the art of creating beats, rhythms and melodies with the help of the human mouth. However, it can also include singing, vocal scratching, imitation work with turntables, sounds of wind instruments, strings and many others.
However, beatbox should not be perceived as a so-called "parody" or "imitation" of music. Beatbox is gaining momentum around the world every day, so now beatbox is not an imitation of sounds, but a complete accompaniment of music. In a word, the beatbox is the creation of music with the help of voice box. With the help of bitbox you can not only make sounds that we hear, but also to invent completely different sounds.
The words "beatboxing", "vocal percussion" and "multivocalism" are often used as substitutes for one another, but this is not true: before and now, different schools of beatboxing had different techniques and repertoire of rhythms - hence different names.
Vocal percussion is in most cases associated with a cappella groups, while "beatboxing" and "human beatbox" are terms associated with hip-hop or other urban musical styles. Multivocal is a relatively new term introduced by the British Killa Kela to refer to the collective use of beatboxing, singing, sound imitation, and generally anything musical that vocals can do.
Using the mouth, lips, tongue and voice to generate sounds that no one would expect from the human body is a feature of artists known as beatboxers. Now scientists have used scanners to look into a beatboxer while it is doing its job to uncover the secrets of this mysterious art.
The human voice has long been used to create percussion effects in many cultures, including North American stingray singing, Celtic singing and deadling, and Chinese koji performances. In South Indian classical music, Konnakol is a rhythmic solkattoo percussion speech. In contemporary pop music, the relatively young vocal form of beatboxing is an element of hip-hop culture.
Until now, the phonetics of these percussion effects have not been studied in detail. For example, it was not known to what extent beatboxers produce sounds already used in human language.
Sixteen records were made, each lasting 30-45 seconds, while the beatboxer produced all the effects in its repertoire, such as individual sounds, composite rhythms, and freestyle combinations of these elements. He divided 12 different percussion sounds into five instrumental classes - drums, drums, high hits and plates. Jenya Kichigin showed his repertoire in several different tempos, ranging from slower at about 65 beats per minute to faster at 146 BPM We were amazed by the complex elegance of vocal movements and sounds created in beatboxing, which itself is an amazing artistic show . The voice is an incredible vocal instrument and its many possibilities continue to amaze us, from the complex choreography" of the dance language "to the complex aerodynamics that work together to create a rich tapestry of sounds that encodes not only the meaning but also a wide range of emotions. "
It's amazing that a person can make these sounds - this person has such control over the synchronization of different parts of the speech system. "It's very interesting to see how far technology has advanced - that we can see these movements in real time. It gives us a much better understanding of how the different parts of our speech anatomy work.
A key conclusion of our work is to show that we can describe the basic sounds used by the artist using the same system used to describe the sounds in speech, which implies a common list of sounds that are used to create any vocal expression.
The study also sheds light on a person's ability to emulate sounds and how human instincts in music and language can intersect and converge. In addition, "learning more about beatboxing and other forms of vocal musical expression can provide insight into the new future of speech therapy.
Jenya Kichigin - Hip Hop & Beatbox Musician
