While scanning the newsfeed of Facebook yesterday, I couldn't help but notice a shared video that my two friends had posted.
Although they had posted it in hopes to promote this "Pete the Box", I was intrigued because the beatboxer was covering/remixing one of my favourite songs by the band, The Pixies.
When I had finally loaded the video on Youtube, I was shocked and amazed at his talent as a beatboxer, a singer, and a musician. Essentially, this was one of the most amazing remixes I have ever seen because Pete the Box is a one-man-band!
Perhaps a more confusing aspect of the video was that he did not attempt to alter the original text, but instead, remake it completely by being a human turntable. The sounds that he makes are in perfect unison with The Pixies verison of "Where is my Mind", and yet he gets more credit as an aspiring artist because he is able to regurgitate material that has already been used in that pattern. He does teach us that the mechanical reproduction actually gives more of an aura to his musical artwork than we might see in other instances. This is because he seems in complete control of his technical equipment and able to almost become one with the sound he produces.
Pete the Box might not be teaching us too much about what it means to re-create original pieces, however, he is teaching us that success can be measured on many different levels. He has taken something and made it his own, in hopes that we too can do, and appreciate the same.
Check out the video here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhjA2nvVD7U&feature=player_embedded#at=33
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