The speaker, Professor Mark Martin, introduces himself and his work with an ancient language that was nearly lost to time. He shares some poetry from this language and talks about his passion for beatboxing, a form of music that originated from synthetic drum machines in the late 70s and 80s. He shares his personal journey of starting beatboxing to overcome his noisy habits, and how he later discovered the connection between beatboxing and language.
Martin talks about how he created a major at New York University to explore the relationship between beatboxing and language, and how he used phonetics to write down the unique sounds of beatboxing. He introduces the concept of "boots and cats," a simple beatboxing technique that articulates the plosives and fricatives, and encourages the audience to participate in this technique.
Martin shares his experience of creating a beatboxing curriculum with two-time world beatbox champion and B try master, Kala Milady, which was brought to the educational nonprofit, Beat Global in New York City. The curriculum aims to improve articulation and phonemic awareness, focusing on the abilities of students rather than their disabilities. He shares the impact of the curriculum on six students, showing a 19% improvement in articulation and a 12% improvement in phonemic awareness.
Finally, Martin conducts a beatboxing game with the audience, demonstrating how beatboxing can be used as a tool for speech therapy and a fun way to improve articulation and phonemic awareness. He concludes by emphasizing the potential of beatboxing to change lives and improve communication.
1. The speaker, Professor Mark Martin, is discussing his work with an ancient language that was nearly lost to time and was first spoken only in the early 1980s.
2. He shares some poetry from this nearly forgotten language.
3. The speaker started beatboxing as a way to create music without any expensive tools or technology.
4. He explains that the term "beatboxing" originated from the late 70s and 80s as a name given to the first synthetic drum machines.
5. In New York City Harlem, a young man known as Doug E Fresh began imitating the sounds of these drum machines with his voice, sparking a new art form.
6. The speaker shares a story of a young kid struggling with the "T" sound in speech therapy and how beatboxing can help.
7. He introduces a beatboxing hack, demonstrating how to articulate the plosives and fricatives in "boots and cats".
8. He talks about a curriculum he created with two-time world beatbox champion and B try master Kalam Milady, aimed at helping students with articulation and phonemic awareness challenges.
9. The curriculum was brought to the educational nonprofit Beat Global in New York City.
10. They conducted a study of their curriculum, tracking six students twice a week for 10 weeks. The students improved articulation by 19% and phonemic awareness by 12%.
11. The speaker shares a game he calls "The Human Orchestra", where students are divided into sections to play different sounds, demonstrating how beatboxing can be used in a fun and engaging way to help with speech therapy.