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Harmonising the Harmony | Crush?! Vocal Band | TEDxLuxembourgCity


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you
maybe foolish maybe I’m blind thinking I
could secure this see what’s be high up
now way to prove it live opportunities
do not arise by being on your own but by
daring to take new paths and connect
dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
dumb dumb singing a cappella has been
around since prehistoric times and is
actually one of the oldest creative
forms of music it is pressed practiced
at any moment of human gathering to
connect with and as a group we are
social human beings and we instinctively
look for connection and stability with
other people we need partners to
stability we can easily spice life up
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our vocal band crush is a microcosmic
representation of any social group back
in the days the group was often more
important and individual especially for
survival purposes but nowadays we are
not necessarily dependent on each other
anymore
still we are supposed to function in our
professional social and private
surroundings which seems to make people
feel more and more uncomfortable
recently human connection has partially
been replaced by digital connection so
problems with trusting each other
facing confrontations and respecting
people for who they really are
seems to have become the root of many a
societal problem we sing a cappella
together and we have dealt with this
ancient phenomenon of human connection
because we have nothing else to rely on
but our own voices so in October last
year after auditions organized by our
coach Andy Law and supported by the
Institute or PNG Sean Corral
we all found our ways into one room as
individuals and without really knowing
each other we just simply started
singing together most of us had never
met before but it was magical we felt
humanly and home and instinctively
connected so our first encounter was
Julie mathemagical of course musical
passionate and energetic so after a few
sessions we realized that we all had our
lines down because we’ve been in choirs
before we know how it works but then we
thought okay we need to get to do more
we need to do more to actually resonate
as a group so we found the solution to
reboot to be rooted in our connectedness
that we already had through the passion
of singing so we needed to get to the
next level we needed to actively listen
to and feel each other to actually make
our songs resonate and also get our
message across as we are all from
different musical backgrounds we figured
out each other’s strengths and
weaknesses and discuss the best options
for our diversified group because only
as a group we can resonate musically and
energetically by celebrating this
diversity without any feelings of
competition or judgment we are also not
organized in a traditional way except
from the initial financial support that
we get from the in egg and from the oval
condition Charlotte we have fully
self-managed so we spend a lot of time
together discussing various ideas and
also splitting up tasks according to our
personal skills we sit together and
decide which gigs we want to accept and
which image and message we want to
convey we also have to feel into our
music in order to polish off our songs
in terms of pitch volume tone and vowel
sounds you might be surprised how many
ways there are to pronounce an O or an A
also to get the timings right and change
on the same notes is a matter of silent
communication among the group while
singing the sense of hearing is
therefore fully alert at all times to
filter the needs of the group and to
adapt to the beats and rhythms
provided to us by our beatboxer and our
base singer so this connectedness
becomes even stronger through this
instant feedback that we give each other
and our communication is not expressed
in words but by ear by eye contact
breathing movements and also body
communication we have to fully feel the
buzz in
in order to emerge into the energy that
it provides the feeling of belonging is
ancient and engages enormous
possibilities the teamwork and effort we
all put into this group in the last
half-year
it’s just exceptional because we have
the same goals and we also move to the
same rhythms and beats listening to each
other and facing confrontations is the
key to any beautiful human relationship
and the essence of life in general
sometimes in our in our times of hectic
we sometimes lose the connection with
our emotions but we have to be very
emotional in many times we have to open
up and to resonate and synchronize in
many situations and many times it makes
us feel very vulnerable because we have
to leave our comfort zones and we have
to let go so we need this safe space as
this group in order to evolve together
and experiment with life bringing a song
to life as a purely human group effort
is probably one of the most impressive
and powerful experiences I have ever had
it releases all kinds of happiness
hormones inside you and it gives you
access to this ancient feeling of
belonging and being part of a project of
creation and especially because we are
all humans it was even more astonishing
that we felt so overwhelmed by this
instinctive feeling of connectedness it
doesn’t seem to be parked much in our
daily lives anymore because probably
it’s to acting and we are too distracted
by everything the connection that we
have felt is purely human and we
realized that we have to harmonize to
harmonize as human beings and as a
species and music is a very powerful
connector so we are very honored to be
here today exactly to the day six months
after our very first encounter in that
one room just around the corner from
here so let’s embrace this connectedness
by mingling and creating together but
remember
we are only humans after all and we all
make mistakes so let’s connect but as
long as we are humanly connected nothing
much can break us
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