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[Music and Beatboxing]

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>>EnKaye: Hi this is EnKaye…

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[Beatboxing]

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and you’re watching MAD.

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[Transition Music]

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What I’m doing is essentially 
shoring up the

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the instruments from the
backup band, sort of providing those uh

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those extra sounds and technicalities that
you wouldn’t get from just instruments.

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Sort of adding that extra flair to the
orchestra you know.

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A few years back I had actually worked  
with MonstrARTity before

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at an event in Brampton, 
where I’m from.

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They had mentioned that they

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wanted a beatboxer for a while for this
specific type of…

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type of orchestra and they just  
happened to have me on deck.

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That vibe of going up on stage
and seeing people

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react positively to what you’re doing

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whether they get it or they don’t get it  
or they like it or they don’t,

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having people, you know,

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celebrate the fact that you want to get up on a stage in front of others.

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I think about that…  

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pretty much right up until the second I  
perform to this day.

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I’ve had a lot of

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good interactions

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and good opportunities with the city of 
Brampton um over the last few years.

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I will admit over the last,

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I want to say, 5 maybe 10 years,
the city of Brampton specifically is — has  

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put a lot of effort into fostering

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local talent.

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I really enjoy
all the time that I’ve spent with the city

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and hopefully now that I’m getting  
back into it

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I want to take those opportunities once again.

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I think I would I would give that message to any uh…

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any young beatboxers

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watching this or any of them
that approach me is just keep at it.

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It’s one of the only instruments
that you don’t have to…to

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carry around with you.

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Take it anywhere, you can get those
10 000 hours in

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as fast as you want.

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[Singing in another language with music and beatboxing]

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[Singing in English with music and beatboxing]

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>>EnKaye: Once I discovered what beatboxing was,

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first thing I thought about was…um…

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let me go through my old song,

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uh my music playlist, like see
if I can imitate some of these drummers.

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And trying to replicate that
and then realizing later on that there’s a…  

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you can add melodies to it, you know,
find out different technical sounds.

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Just kind of grew from there.

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Whenever I’m…I’m brainstorming ideas,  

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I’m thinking about new concepts,  
new routines, new bits,

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I tend to create them in uh…

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30 second or 60 second
or 90 second bits.

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You can make a decision on which one 
of those bits you want to put together.

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Some of them might flow into
each other, some might be very melodic, 

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some might be song covers.

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You take the bits that you like,
you put them together.

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Take the ones that you might not need 
right now,

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you might find something to
complement them.

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I think the Canadian landscape for beatboxing is probably  

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the best that it’s ever been right now

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as a…as an art form.

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I’ve noticed…um a shift away from

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basic beatboxing as an accent
to…to

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spoken word or to poetry or rap

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and it’s it’s really become its own
its own genre.

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The current situation has definitely  

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given me some time to think about

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how I approach music.
If I want to put out music again,

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how am I going to approach it?

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What are live shows going to
look like in the in the immediate future?

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As far as making music itself,

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I think even with mainstream artists
you see this

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very, very rapid uh…

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unexpected, somewhat unprepared,
shift towards online.

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You can pretty much…
pretty much beatbox anywhere you want.  

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Whenever you want.

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Um and having uh connected
social media that we do right now,

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I think it’s easier now more than ever —

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especially with everyone staying at home,
spending a lot of time on social media 

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— it’s easier now more than ever to just

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throw as much content out there  
as you can.

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[Singing in another language with music and beatboxing]

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[Music with beatboxing]

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>>EnKaye: It was interesting watching   

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the performance uh
pretty much as an audience member

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[Short chuckle]

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because most of the shows I do  
are really

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in front of in front of live crowds, like I’m
very used to the live crowd experience.

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Uh the only…the only side effect is

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I usually don’t get to see
everything put together after the fact.

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Really interesting to see
the high quality production.  

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The whole show looked fantastic.

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This whole
situation that we’ve all been put in

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has really pushed creative boundaries

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and the fact that we can still pull
something off

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on a virtual stage,

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at this scale, with this level of production, 
still make it look really nice,  

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I think it’s a good skill — it’s a good 
precedent and a good skill to have.

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I really enjoy reading fan comments uh  

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partially because

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I feel like what I do is something
that not a lot of people see every day,

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but for me, especially at this performance 
specifically,

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I was most excited for people  
to see

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the collaboration.

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This festival is good for me because I

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really really 
wanted to get back into performing

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and this was a really good opportunity. 

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I’ve been looking for opportunities to work with local artists.

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I’ve had a really good experience 

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with BMM, with MonstrARTity, in the past and in the present

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and uh I’m looking forward to using a lot of
these connections to get back into music.

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[Music and beatboxing]

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