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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Bird: A one-man orchestra of the imagination
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
All right. So, I wanted to do something _______ today. I want to debut a new song that I've been _______ on in the last five or six months. And there's few things more _________ than playing a song for the first time in _____ of an audience, especially when it's half-finished. (Laughter) I'm kind of hoping some conversations here might help me finish it. Because it gets into all sorts of crazy realms. And so this is _________ a song about loops, but not the kind of loops that I make up here. They're feedback loops. And in the audio world that's when the microphone gets too close to its sound source, and then it gets in this self-destructive loop that creates a very unpleasant sound. And I'm going to demonstrate for you. (________) I'm not going to hurt you. Don't worry.
Solution
- front
- special
- basically
- working
- laughter
- thrilling
Original Text
All right. So, I wanted to do something special today. I want to debut a new song that I've been working on in the last five or six months. And there's few things more thrilling than playing a song for the first time in front of an audience, especially when it's half-finished. (Laughter) I'm kind of hoping some conversations here might help me finish it. Because it gets into all sorts of crazy realms. And so this is basically a song about loops, but not the kind of loops that I make up here. They're feedback loops. And in the audio world that's when the microphone gets too close to its sound source, and then it gets in this self-destructive loop that creates a very unpleasant sound. And I'm going to demonstrate for you. (Laughter) I'm not going to hurt you. Don't worry.
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