I wanna share with you a little bit about something

that I recently had to come to terms with, letting go of.

It's actually something that all of us have

and it's taking me a long time to appreciate the role

that's played in my life.

Especially up till now when I had to let go of it --

But it's not my voice --

(Clear voice) It is --

what I thought was possible to do with the voice

versus what I used to think was impossible.

And what I think is possible versus impossible with the body,

and a lot more things in life actually.

So, I'm a beatboxer.

(Beatboxing)

And -- one of the things I love about it is

that it can really get outside

of what you expect is possible in the world,

it can go so far outside of what your expectation is.

And that's what got me into it in the first place.

It was an incredible performance by a guy named Rahzel.

And, you know the drum noises that some of this people make --

(Drum noises - beatboxing)

Can get pretty close to the drum -- (Applause)

Thanks --

There is more -- (Deep voice) There is more to come.

No -- (Laugther)

You can do some incredible things with beatboxing,

and the thing that really blew my mind,

in one of these performances -- we're doing

a beat and the choirs at the same time.

And -- It's this incredible performance and it doesn't seem possible --

You hear the beat (Beat sound)

and then you hear some words.

And -- I'm interested in what moves us, what moves you.

So, putting that behind some beats --

(Beatboxing and singing) ♫ I want to know what moves you ♫

♫ I want to know what moves you ♫

♫ I want to know what moves you ♫

♫ I want to know what moves you ♫

And -- (Applause)

Thanks!

And it's funny because for me

the technical aspects of beatboxing

really push the fast parts and the cool parts

and making just distinct noise, sound, all on it's own.

(Beatboxing)

Those comprise the technical aspects, but what's

the hardest part for me in really moving forward,

actually comes from the hesitation to make weird sounding noises.

(Laughter)

And the more I think about that, the more I notice

where else that comes up in life.

You know, the first thing I do, for instance

when I get into, like a -- a stairwell

with some fantastic natural reever.

(Reever sound)

And you hear those big noises move --

And then -- the funny thing is to notice how if I hear

somebody else coming up the stairs then I just --

(Beatboxing sound)

You know. (Laughter)

A person comes up and I'll just -- (Singing acting normal)

as they walk by, as if they didn't know that that was me.

(Laughter)

And it's so funny because -- you know --

the thing that's holding me back --

is the same thing that I have to let go of

to come up here and make weird noises in front of you.

And it's -- you know, it's entirely internal.

And it's the -- I get embarrased

by myself sometimes, with -- (Wheeze sounds)

I wanna let you in on the process

of learning a new noise.

I am working on the soft palate right now --

trying to make a tone. (Wheeze sounds)

It's not going so great. (Laughter)

But maybe it will eventually and learning how to train

different parts of myself to vibrate in different ways,

(Deep cracked voice) is what taught me how to be able to do that

that's actually someting above my vocal cords.

(Clear voice) while I sing a pitch --

(Vibrating pitch)

You can hear I was doing two things at the same time,

that's two pitches.

(Vibrating pitch)

So, letting you in on this little process is just, you know --

you can feel so amazed sometimes by something that's --

that you get thrown at you,

that's outside of your own expectation,

but rather than substitute information that matches

your current set of 'what's possible in the world.'

What I like to work on just letting go, and kind of let the experience come in

and not give myself to the negative self talk,

and the kind of -- I wanna hide -- (Singing acting normal)

My goal is to do a lot more than --

(Beatboxing)

♫ I wanna know what moves you. ♫

♫ I wanna know what moves you. ♫

♫ I wanna know what moves you. ♫

And what you have to let go off to keep moving.

Thanks.

(Applause)