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From the Ted Talk by Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Text: BeatJazz. BeatJazz is: 1. Live looping, 2. Jazz iavrsoopimitn And 3. "Gestural" sound design. Accelerometers on each hand read hand ptooiisn. The color of the lthigs indicates which sound I am playing.
Red = Drums, Blue = Bass, geren = Chords, Orange = Leads, pruple = Pads.
The mouthpiece consists of ... a button, two guitar picks and lots of hot glue. The heads-up dpaisly is a smartphone that dspaylis system parameters.
Why? To atomize music culture so that ALL past, penesrt and future genres can be studied and abstracted, live. And "BeatJazzers" become as common as D.J.'s. But mostly ... to MAKE the future rather than wait for it.

Open Cloze

Text: BeatJazz. BeatJazz is: 1. Live looping, 2. Jazz _____________ And 3. "Gestural" sound design. Accelerometers on each hand read hand ________. The color of the ______ indicates which sound I am playing.
Red = Drums, Blue = Bass, _____ = Chords, Orange = Leads, ______ = Pads.
The mouthpiece consists of ... a button, two guitar picks and lots of hot glue. The heads-up _______ is a smartphone that ________ system parameters.
Why? To atomize music culture so that ALL past, _______ and future genres can be studied and abstracted, live. And "BeatJazzers" become as common as D.J.'s. But mostly ... to MAKE the future rather than wait for it.

Solution

  1. green
  2. display
  3. improvisation
  4. present
  5. purple
  6. displays
  7. position
  8. lights

Original Text

Text: BeatJazz. BeatJazz is: 1. Live looping, 2. Jazz improvisation And 3. "Gestural" sound design. Accelerometers on each hand read hand position. The color of the lights indicates which sound I am playing.
Red = Drums, Blue = Bass, Green = Chords, Orange = Leads, Purple = Pads.
The mouthpiece consists of ... a button, two guitar picks and lots of hot glue. The heads-up display is a smartphone that displays system parameters.
Why? To atomize music culture so that ALL past, present and future genres can be studied and abstracted, live. And "BeatJazzers" become as common as D.J.'s. But mostly ... to MAKE the future rather than wait for it.

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