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Beardyman_2013-_复调的我_
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| I'd like you all to ask yourselves a question which you may never have asked yourselves before: |
我希望你们 先问你们自己一个问题 这个问题可能你们从没问过自己 |
| What is possible with the human voice? |
人的声音能干些啥 |
| What is possible with the human voice? |
人的声音能干些~啥~ |
| (Beatboxing) |
（B-Box） |
| ? Ooh baby ? |
呜~~宝贝儿~ |
| ? baby ? |
宝贝儿~ |
| ? baby ? |
宝贝儿~ |
| ? baby ? (Baby crying) |
宝贝儿~（婴儿哭） |
| ? baby ? (Baby crying) |
宝贝儿~（婴儿哭） |
| ? baby ? (Cat meowing) |
宝贝儿~（猫叫） |
| (Dog barking) |
（犬吠） |
| Yeah. |
好了 |
| (Applause) |
（掌声） |
| (Boomerang noises) |
（飞去来器声音） |
| It was coming straight for me. I had to. It was, yeah. |
它直接朝我飞过来,打到我了,疼啊 |
| As you can probably well imagine, |
你们大概能想到 |
| I was a strange child. |
我原先是个怪小孩儿 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| Because the thing is, I was constantly trying to extend my repertoire of noises to be the very maximum that it could be. |
因为我时常尝试 把我的声音技能 发挥到极限 |
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constantly:adv.不断地;时常地; extend:vt.延伸; vi.延伸; repertoire:n.全部节目;计算机指令系统;(美)某人或机器的全部技能; maximum:n.最大限度;最大量;最高限度;adj.最高的;最多的;最大极限的;
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| I was constantly experimenting with these noises. |
我时常用这些声音做实验 |
| And I'm still on that mission . |
现在我仍在干那事儿 |
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mission:n.使命,任务;代表团;布道;v.派遣;向…传教;
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| I'm still trying to find every noise that I can possibly make. |
我仍希望找到 自己能够制造出的声音 |
| And the thing is, I'm a bit older and wiser now, and I know that there's some noises |
但是,我现在年龄大了 也变聪明了 因为身体构造的局限性 |
| I'll never be able to make because I'm hemmed in by my physical body, and there's things it can't do. |
我知道有些声响 是我永远都发不出来的 总有事情是它做不了的 |
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hemmed:v.(给某物)缝边,镶边;(hem的过去分词和过去式) physical:adj.[物]物理的;身体的;物质的;符合自然法则的;n.体格检查;
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| And there's things that no one's voice can do. |
有些声响没有人的嗓音能够完成 |
| For example, no one can do two notes at the same time . |
比如说,人声不能同时发出两个音符 |
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at the same time:同时;另一方面;与此同时;
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| You can do two-tone singing, which monks can do, which is like... |
但你可以同时发出双音调 和尚们就能做到,像这样 |
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two-tone:adj.两颜色的;同色而浓淡不同的;两种色调的;
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| (Two-tone singing) |
（双音调演示） |
| But that's cheating. |
但那是作弊 |
| And it hurts your throat. |
而且会伤到喉咙 |
| So there's things you can't do, and these limitations on the human voice have always really annoyed me, because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, but they're sketches at best, which is what's annoyed me. |
所以说,总有声响是你发不出来的 这些人声的局限总是困扰我呀 因为B-Box是把你脑子里的音乐想法 发挥出来并走向世界的最好的办法 但它们最多算得上草稿 那就是困扰我的地方 |
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limitations:n.局限性;(限制)因素;边界(limitation的复数形式); annoyed:adj.恼怒;生气;烦恼;v.使恼怒;使生气;打扰;骚扰(annoy的过去分词和过去式) beatbox:n.打击体验;电子节奏鼓; sketches:n.[测]草图; v.素描,写生(sketch的第三人称单数);
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| If only, if only there was a way for these ideas to come out unimpeded by the restrictions which my body gives it. |
要是有一个方法 可以让这些想法不受身体限制 并顺畅的表达出来就好了 |
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unimpeded:adj.畅通无阻的;未受阻的; restrictions:n.限制规定;限制;约束;制约因素;(restriction的复数)
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| So I've been working with these guys, and we've made a machine. |
所以,我一直和这些家伙合作 我们成功造出了一台机器 |
| We've made a system which is basically a live production machine, a real-time music production machine, and it enables me to, using nothing but my voice, create music in real time as I hear it in my head unimpeded by any physical restrictions that my body might place on me. |
我们制造了一个系统 一台实时的创作机器 一台实时的音乐创作机器 它能让我只用自己的声音 即时创作我脑袋里听到的音乐 不受任何我身体构造 可能对我造成的限制 |
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basically:adv.主要地,基本上; real-time:adj.实时的;接到指示立即执行的; enables:v.使得; (enable的第三人称单数) real time:adj.实时的;接到指示立即执行的;
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| And I'm going to show you what it can do. |
接下来我就给你们演示一下 |
| And before I start making noises with it, and using it to manipulate my voice, |
在我用它制造噪音 和用它控制我的声音之前 |
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manipulate:vt.操纵;操作;巧妙地处理;篡改;
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| I want to reiterate that everything that you're about to hear is being made by my voice. |
我想重申一下 待会儿你们听到的所有声音 都是我的声音 |
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reiterate:vt.重申;反复地做;
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| This system has -- thank you, beautiful assistant -- this system has no sounds in it itself until I start putting sounds in it, so there's no prerecorded samples of any kind. |
这个系统······ 谢谢你,美丽善良的助手 在我往这个系统里录音之前 它本身是没有任何声音的 所以,没有任何形式的事先录音 |
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prerecorded:vt.事先录音;
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| So once this thing really gets going, and it really starts to mangle the audio I'm putting into it, it becomes not obvious that it is the human voice, but it is, so I'm going to take you through it bit by bit and start nice and simple. |
一旦系统开始运作 它就会把我录进去的声音切成片段 人声的特点就不会那么明显了 所以我先一点一点的带你们体验一下 来点儿简单易懂的 |
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mangle:vt.乱砍;轧布;损坏;n.轧布机; audio:adj.声音的;录音的; obvious:adj.明显的;显著的;平淡无奇的;
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| So the polyphony problem: I've only got one voice. |
有一个多声部的问题: 我只有一个声音 |
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polyphony:n.复调;复调音乐;多音;
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| How do I get around the problem of really wanting to have as many different voices going on at the same time. |
我该怎样克服 希望它同时演奏很多不同声音 这个问题呢 |
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get around:到处走走;逃避;说服;传开来(等于getround);有办法应付;有办法应付局面;
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| The simplest way to do it is something like this. |
最简单的方法是这样 |
| (Beatboxing) |
（B-Box） |
| By dancing. It's like this. |
跳舞,像这样 |
| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| Thanks. |
谢谢 |
| (Applause) |
（掌声） |
| So that's probably the easiest way. |
这可能是最简单的方法 |
| But if you want to do something a little bit more immediate, something that you can't achieve with live looping , there's other ways to layer your voice up. |
但如果你想做点更直接的 用实时循环功能都不能实现的事 还有其他办法实现声音层叠 |
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looping:v.使成环;使绕成圈;成环形运动;(loop的现在分词) layer:n.层,层次; vt.把…分层堆放; vi.形成或分成层次;
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| There's things like pitch-shifting, which are awesome , and I'm going to show you now what that sounds like. |
比如说音调转变 酷极了 现在我就给你们演示音调转变 |
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awesome:adj.令人敬畏的;使人畏惧的;可怕的;极好的;
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| So I'm going to start another beat for you, like this. |
我以另一个节拍开始,像这样 |
| (Beatboxing) |
（B-Box） |
| There's always got to be a bit of a dance at the start, because it's just fun, so you can clap along if you want. |
开始总会先跳点儿小舞 只是因为好玩儿 你们可以跟着节拍拍手 |
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clap:n.鼓掌;拍手;掌声;拍手声;v.拍手(表示赞许或欣赏);击掌;
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| You don't have to. It's fine. Check it out. |
不一定非得拍,没关系,看着 |
| I'm going to lay down a bass sound now. |
现在我要加入一个男低音 |
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bass:n.鲈鱼;男低音;低音部;椴树;adj.低音的;
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| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| And now, a rockabilly guitar. |
接下来,乡村摇滚吉他 |
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rockabilly:n.(美)山区乡村摇滚乐(起源于美国东南部);
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| Which is nice. But what if I want to make, say, a -- (Applause) -- |
很好听,但如果我想加入······ |
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what if:如果…怎么办?
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| Thanks. What if I want to make, say, a rock organ ? |
谢谢,我想加入摇滚风琴呢 |
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organ:n.[生物]器官;机构;风琴;管风琴;嗓音;
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| Is that possible? Yes, it is, by recording myself like this. |
能行吗？当然 把我自己的声音录进去,像这样 |
| (Organ sound) |
（风琴声） |
| And now I have that, I have that recorded. |
现在有了,我已经把它录进去了 |
| Assign it to a keyboard. |
现在把它转换到键盘上 |
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Assign:v.指定;指派;转让;分派;n.[法]受让人;
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| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| So that's cool. |
非常棒 |
| (Applause) |
（掌声） |
| But what if I wanted to sound like the whole of Pink Floyd? |
但如果我想听起来像Pink Floyd乐队呢 |
| Impossible, you say. No. |
你说不可能,错了 |
| It is possible, and you can do it very simply using this machine. It's really fantastic . Check it out. |
是可能的 有了这个机器,做起来小菜一碟 真的很不可思议,看着啊 |
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fantastic:奇异的,空想的
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| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| So every noise you can hear there is my voice. |
所以说,你们听到的所有声响 都是我的声音 |
| I didn't just trigger something which sounds like that. |
我并没有触发一个那样的装置 |
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trigger:n.触发器; v.触发;
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| There's no samples. There's no synthesizers . |
根本没有样本 没有音响合成器 |
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synthesizers:n.合成者;[电]合成器;(synthesizers是synthesizer的复数);
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| That is literally all my voice being manipulated , and when you get to that point, you have to ask, don't you, what's the point? |
只是我在控制我的声音 当你意识到那个的时候,你就会问 那有什么意义啊 |
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literally:adv.按字面:字面上:确实地: manipulated:v.(暗中)控制,操纵,影响;使用;治疗脱臼;(manipulate的过去式和过去分词)
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| Why do this? (Laughter) |
为什么这样做呢 |
| Because it's cheaper than hiring the whole of Pink Floyd, |
因为这比雇Pink Floyd乐队便宜呀 |
| I suppose , is the easy answer. |
我想这个答案比较简单 |
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suppose:v.推断:假定:假设:设想:
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| But in actual fact, I haven't made this machine so that I can emulate things that already exist. |
但事实上,我们造出这个机器 不是为了模仿已经存在的声音 |
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emulate:vt.仿真;模仿;尽力赶上;同…竞争;n.仿真;仿效;
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| I've made this so that I can make any noise that I can imagine. |
我制造这个机器是为了 演奏我能想象到的所有声音 |
| So with your permission, I'm going to do some things that are in my mind, and I hope you enjoy them, because they're rather unusual, especially when you're doing things which are as unusual as this, it can be hard to believe that it is all my voice, you see. |
接下来,如果你们允许的话 我就演奏一些我脑子里的声音 希望你们喜欢 因为它们相当与众不同 尤其是当你们在做这类不寻常的事情时 你很难相信那都是我的声音 你们瞧着啊 |
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especially:adv.尤其;特别;格外;十分;
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| (Voice effects) |
（音效） |
| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| Like this. |
像这样 |
| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| So, loosely defined , that is what's possible with the human voice. |
所以,简单说来 这就是人声能干的事儿 |
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loosely:adv.宽松地;放荡地;轻率地; defined:adj.有定义的,确定的; v.使明确;
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| Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. |
谢谢,女士们先生们 |
| (Applause) |
（掌声） |