hello and welcome to Tech Talk is a very unique platform baby interview some and
meet up with some very amusing and very interesting people I am Samuel ready and
I'm going to be your host for this series of life and this evening we have
with us a very interesting person who does something called beatboxing I don't
know how many of you have heard of this place called beatboxing nothing to do
with boxing actually it's something very different and we have Gokul here with us
hello Cole it's good to have you here thank you so it's good to be here
so technical what is beatboxing generally a beatboxing is nothing but
vocal percussion Larry use your throat lips and tongue and turkey base to
produce percussion sounds and other rhythmic sounds and there are some kind
of people who also do DJ scratch sounds and some trumpet and piano sounds so I
remember when we were growing up in school we used to you know make these
sounds you know yeah yeah so obviously they say viola guitar while at Rumson
yes something like that yeah and I heard that it actually started in the ghettos
in in America this concept may be a clock thing because they couldn't afford
you know the instruments so they started making those instrument sounds with
their with their mouth and throat or what you say and that's how it started
is that true yes yes exactly so so far the history goes on like no even before
that what you say even before that the people heard like those days tribal
people could not able to afford for the rhythm instruments and so they started
to the one member we start start to write lyrics and one one guy will be
singing and other guy will be doing sums through mouth in order to form a band
like a thing and so it is also a fourth element of hip-hop
beatboxing so one will be dancing and that'd be boring kind of steps and wanna
be singing one will be rapping one will be doing the melody partner so it so
basically started somewhere in the West yes not not in India not in India
although we have a much longer history than America or something yeah
but white beatboxing I mean why that word boxing because boxing is again you
know you're white things and why why why they call it beatboxing so so far I
acquired the meaning of beatboxing is like now the beats are generated from
the vocal box so whatever the bead and songs you are
making so throat being the major reason so I think that is a reason the meaning
for beatboxing yeah and how popular is it in India
nowadays the youngsters and youth people they started to admire the Western
culture so they want to invite those kind of talents and rhythms into them I
cannot tell you it is direct it is still mooing how long do you practice in a day
it does not I mean like the number of halves you practice in it and you are
getting kicked by any even management's or any parties no the concentration
comes automatically now you have to go for the gazelles
before you go and perform the - so you know we tend to learn what kind of
audience is going to be there in front of us say for example you kind of
audience we have to play a disco kind of beats suppose if a delta what about
forty five-plus caged people are there so we have to go and play like a
classical kind of rhythms so alterations are always mandatory right so
accordingly the results also will give your also to a very large extent Indian
izing what is otherwise a Western constant I think so and we have a lot of
instruments yeah which is not there in the West you know they may have the
guitars and the violin so no but here you said like you have your various
types of instrument which is many specifics to India yes yes and India had
you know we have I believe we have recorded history of over 7,000 years
which means we are very much older civilization than the Americans or
whatever it is which means we've also got some very unique instruments yes
percussion instruments this thing so is it possible to mimic those songs have
you done a little bit of research into these things where you can actually you
know yeah it is a normal character actually usual question where where I
coherently people come and ask me why can't you play that independence on why
can't you play that you can zero on I answer them like inspiration is
different from imitation century so imitations is like no mimicry it's not
like an mimicry artists who mimic someone's voice so it's a different path
and field where you can implement all those principles and norms into your
strand of beatboxing like Miranda gum has its peculiar terms and zerah has his
peculiar style of rules and regulations so we can adapt all those rules of those
rhythmic and we can implement you know instead of beatboxing for example you
know the dog from Punjab will have we call this boundary
okay so madame nicoletis a classical instrument from Chennai South India
so I cannot mimic the part of the instrument whereas I can implement the
rules of so what is unique about your stay I mean obviously yeah in order to
be also from the so I thought so I I
yeah yeah you know the body language the way they are performing on stage I think
for you I think we are more subdued I think more emphasis on showmanship will
actually you know make this even more interesting in the audience from the
audience so you said there are three ways one is what you did just now what
is the next the next bonus tanga hand over them from specific areas
that you're so obviously you have to have some kind of knowledge about music
isn't it I mean exactly so there are two kinds of knowledge one
is listening knowledge and another one is learning noise through learning we
tend to know about different kind of rhythms and patterns or rhythm and music
actually so when when I played classical kind of rhythm so snap plays a major
role what I did was the like a minor drum sound and when it comes to the
Trangia part the bass plays the visceral so how you are pushing the bit pushing
the bass beat and simultaneously how you are bearing this nappy that plays a
major production so that is more important in the way that you are
exactly you know acquiring the rhythm and you are showcasing to the audience
so they will know they immediately yes they immediately realized oh this is the
idea this is classical yes nicely he's differentiating it different rhythms
perfect I could make out that you know like
so yeah which i think is here I think you can go into so many variations
exactly because you know you're Indian izing the you know concept so to say so
how does that feel I'm actually trying to create a great
change you know people from the young to the youth who
sees be boxing's like a major agenda for them so how are you going to do beat
boxing so it's not it's nothing a great thing actually you know big box big
boxes are of different strengths as I said before you know some big big boxes
create the base bit from lips now the alphabet B when you ask me the letter B
so this is actually a base deal so I teach like you know you can also create
the base B from here
so when you create a base from here you know you can consistently make
kind of rhythms and you can also show variations but no different kind of
creativity we know rise in your heart and mind so that you can play n number
of varieties of songs so that actually you know create the enthusiasm
automatically come back to the restaurant that's amazing because you
know we are always under the impression that is just making sound yeah I never
realized you know there are so many aspects to this beatbox and you know as
I'm talking to you you know my mind is also am I able to understand and
appreciate yeah that this is really an art and there's also science yeah
because you know you are talking about so many things you know like you said
the bass sound and all that so how would you encourage youngsters to you know
take up something like this you know the something which comes from your heart
you know you call it as an instinct so in-stream doesn't have a meaning codecs
to always know if you really found your passion you know you'll always spend
time to exercise it and practice it passion is the thing which always boost
you in all the things you know whenever you get stressed or upset with some
things you know immediately when you go and listening songs or you know when you
sing or you know you do your passion immediately you will get you forget all
the offsets and stress and even if you get a fresh kind of creativity thoughts
and you will go and concentrate your work again so in one way passion helps
you in that and also the other way passion also become a profession in
future some of the guys so it is an opportunity always whenever people say
opposite it knocks it out ones sometimes we have to create the opportunity very
very true so again coming to how did you start okay
this concept could be broken how did you but there was the stuck I remember when
I was around six or seven you know my father take me to the barber shop I
thought you said these take me to the bar so I mean he was taking me to the
barber shop the people who are waiting for the
bother and all they tap here and there to entertain themselves so I started to
buy what they are doing how can they can vary their fingers to create different
options so I also always love to tap on bench school bench and I got many
scolding from a teachers action so on that time itself I am impressed with
arrogance and I got inspired with wait why can't we do in our throat yes I know
called as a disco kind of music this I started during the time of age of 8 so
it was no three four years later what happened there was a film called a
gudgeon where a Surya Anderson that song called so to many jewelry composed by
hair is there so now Harris became an indirect guru for me now the particular
rhythm so like it will come back so that actually inspired me to do beatboxing uh
ever since I started my big boxing I never knew the art name called
beatboxing sure so that was during my 8th standard so 8
to 11 I was just now inspiring the different kind of rhythms and iced and
implementing in my throat and keep on entertain my friends and during lunch
hours and break dance so one friend AI I and my father went to
a fusion concert where I tend to watch a different instrument you know that is
actually completely unrelated nah I got confused how gadem artist was playing in
rhythm and also beatboxer was there in between so he was making some different
kinds of songs and the I bent down into the front row person and asked what he
is doing I also make that kind of song I don't the art name he told me that in
western countries from five to fifty people make that kind of sound
Lincoln beatboxing put that time when you came to know that yes and that time
I started seriously and you know listening to Gazoo Nene songs and I know
only carnival a in a totally different kind of rhythmic sounds I started to
download in my system and started to practice in my home so I had one friend
he was a sound engineer so what he did he took me to the engineering sound
engineering lab theater and he asked me to do perform different kinds of sounds
and mic so that let they hear what is beatboxing and you also should get
inspired with your sounds like that he increased me a lot and then first and
when I played my songs and mic the real I got goosebumps oh yes I also possess
some kind of talent in me so it went on like that and now it became a part-time
profession for me I tend to get inspired with the ironic patterns of the
legendary become a guru so I started to watch his kind of fusion called
subduction so no I started to practice the Carnatic that is the time where I
enter to the classical kind of rhythms in boxing so I started to play those
kind of sounds in me and I directly met him and I also accompanied with him more
than 25 concerts oh that is fantastic so there must have
been inspiring to you know play with somebody like that yeah and how did he
want it what was his reaction to your a his reaction actually you know he's a
one person I never seen so far oh is such a down-to-earth person who actually
excavate the hidden talents from the extras
no first time when I sat down with him during the
in front of us more than 500 600 people were sitting he started his solo pattern
then I really got full sweat the next is my solo but I don't know what I'm going
to do and till now I did not learn anything professionally I'm not a
trained of Arizona contest so I am good then he guided me to whatever you know
and this is your first converse stage this stage is yours
please just let me like them then I started to play different kind of
rhythms no no tempo no proper tempo nothing and
even now I I know I struggled in tempo parts actually to be frank but being an
accompany artist yes I cannot manage and now I'm learning in a tempo parts
because one or the other be people should not ask me questions in future so
when I played my first big boxing session with after the concert you
deadly the first day I got interviewed by the daily newspaper
I also heard that you were invited to Calcutta to perform more you know in
halls they were other witness booked the committee was the committee is called a
universal record forum so usually this record organization will have different
adjudicators educators means like now one who judges and finds a unique talent
from each and region different state so suddenly I got a call during the time of
number 2017 one of the adjudicator from Salem he called me and he told me that I
watched your videos in YouTube and we found that you are one of the unique
talents from South India he actually asked me to give the feedback and like
no he asked me nice he asked my suggestion whether I'm going to perform
in Calcutta so I just kept quite to find whether it's really prank or something
going to be after desi again he called me
then he told me he asked me my profile to mail him then I got call from the
president of unison record phone so he also liked my talent and he sent my
video to the vice-president the committee actually chose me one among
the unique talent from South India then they asked me to come to Kolkata where
the function was held at mahadji I saw them in front of many Guinness record
holders and some man the Asian book of record holders so I thought whether I
really works to perform before all this stands or not so then whatever happens
let's go and drop stage is mine I know I made some homeworks and went and perform
there so that was really you know it's like a horizon experience for me they
are actually so so would you call that as a kind of a turning point no whenever
I browse the YouTube you know Asia's Got Talent India's Got Talent
I always dream of entering into the stage behind my behind the banner should
be the talent logo whether I will come or not that was the confusion I had in
the earlier stages after I perform there and seeing my photos yes it's you know
like you know center court full of Got Talent world Got Talent
now after seeing that picture I got many inquiries from many parts of India like
whether you can come and perform for us this the event is happening there but
commercially got many inquiries as well as you know the reputation got increased
day by day so after my performance you know the best been called Parliament and
cabinet ministers and MPs and then Monday they individually came to me and
they appreciated me like you know you are completely different then after a
few day is known news channels from news eating news 7 no
Sun TV mana come from one of the program when I got getting mad I'm getting
interviews different kinds of channels you know
automatically know as you ask me how did you feel when you are getting recognized
today by day so automatically a fear got wrong it got sword in my heart
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