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hi my name is Oded Pryor and I want to
tell you a little bit about my story and
how I landed in this slightly bizarre
career as you could probably guess I
clap my hands for a living but my story
begins in my childhood when I was a kid
when I was a very very hyperactive kid
in Israel for my 13th birthday for
reasons that I still don’t fully
understand my parents decided that it
will be a great idea to buy me a drum
kit that was a life-changing moment for
me and for all of my family and for all
of our neighbors as well for the next 10
years I played on that drum kit and it
was great on one hand but on the other
hand something was missing something
just wasn’t there I wasn’t sure what I
thought maybe I should buy a new drum
kit maybe I should change the skin or
the stakes or maybe even change my
teacher but none of that helped I
realized that I was playing a lot on the
side of the drums on the rim on the
stands and all these parts that you’re
not supposed to play on and I also felt
this urge inside me to to jump up in the
air and scream and dance while I’m
drumming I realized that this whole
sitting down thing that’s not for me so
I started incorporating kitchen utensils
like pots and pans and buckets and tins
and just random objects I move all the
drums to the side of the room and I
spread all these instruments on the
floor and just drama everywhere
my dad walks in the room and he says
what are you doing I said these are my
new drums now so he suggested why not
make it in a sort of way that I can drum
above and jump and move around and so we
did since then I’ve never looked back it
was a little bit later when I met a
person who had a major impact on my life
and on my career
his name is nirvan and he’s their
creative director of a rhythm group in
Israel called demente everyone showed me
that you can move away the drum kit
completely and still be a drummer he
showed me how to produce sounds and
music for my body and how to dance and
drum at the same time he was also a
master of creative recycling and he
showed me that any piece anything no
matter what is it you can make a great
sound out of it doesn’t matter how
useless it looks like I joined the
Vaughn group and we toured Israel and
Europe for the next six years performing
everywhere we could I started teaching
body percussion and creative recycling
in schools for kids and I was doing
quite well but just then my girlfriend
at the time my wife today
suggested that we moved to Australia now
that was a really hard decision for me
because I worked so hard to get to where
it was it means I have to start all over
again but she did mention that there was
a growing movement of awareness for
recycling and sustainability here in
Australian that the people here would
love what I do
so I said you know what let’s give it a
try we packed our bags and our dog and
we hopped on a plane and landed in this
beautiful country when I arrived here on
my first week I discovered two great
things one there were no other junk
percussion groups here that was a great
sign too there is this unbelievable
amazing thing called council clean up
now for those of you are not familiar
with it with this term let me clarify
council clean up in Australia means that
every once in a while you can take out
everything you don’t want in your house
put it on the street in front of your
house and the council will come pick it
up after a few days so you can imagine
how I felt when I was
walking in the street and realizing I’m
surrounded by piles of junk I was
shocked I asked someone some stranger in
the street what’s going on and he told
me that’s his councillor clean up and I
asked can I take this he said yeah I
thought I’d died and reach to heaven
I bought a van and start driving in the
streets of Sydney collecting many many
different items and very soon I was in
my happy place in my backyard surrounded
by hundreds of different items I divided
them two groups based on their sound I
started cutting them and putting them
together drilling and welding and cable
tying these things creating bizarre
instruments I took him down to the
streets of Sydney and started performing
in front of everybody who would listen
while I was doing so I also enrolled
into a music business course in TAFE so
can I can have a better understanding of
the industry and I also auditioned local
drummers and dancers I had the vision of
creating a group similar to the one I
had in Israel so here I am today two
years later and I’m very thrilled to
tell you that we now have a thriving
family under the name of junkyard beets
we’ve been performing all over
Australian events and festivals we’re
teaching workshops for kids in schools
we’re running programs with communities
and to be honest for me this is a dream
come true today we’re giving you a
little taste of the junkyard beats world
we took our one-hour show and we
compressed it into six minutes of
extremely high energy routine that will
showcase most of our instruments I
really hope you like it and I hope you
find it inspiring I’m encouraging you
guys to try this at home and I hope you
will never look at your household items
in the same way after seeing this show
ladies and gentlemen thank you very much
for your time I present to you junkyard
beats
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hi my name is Oded Pryor and I want to
tell you a little bit about my story and
how I landed in this slightly bizarre
career as you could probably guess I
clap my hands for a living but my story
begins in my childhood when I was a kid
when I was a very very hyperactive kid
in Israel for my 13th birthday for
reasons that I still don’t fully
understand my parents decided that it
will be a great idea to buy me a drum
kit that was a life-changing moment for
me and for all of my family and for all
of our neighbors as well for the next 10
years I played on that drum kit and it
was great on one hand but on the other
hand something was missing something
just wasn’t there I wasn’t sure what I
thought maybe I should buy a new drum
kit maybe I should change the skin or
the stakes or maybe even change my
teacher but none of that helped I
realized that I was playing a lot on the
side of the drums on the rim on the
stands and all these parts that you’re
not supposed to play on and I also felt
this urge inside me to to jump up in the
air and scream and dance while I’m
drumming I realized that this whole
sitting down thing that’s not for me so
I started incorporating kitchen utensils
like pots and pans and buckets and tins
and just random objects I move all the
drums to the side of the room and I
spread all these instruments on the
floor and just drama everywhere
my dad walks in the room and he says
what are you doing I said these are my
new drums now so he suggested why not
make it in a sort of way that I can drum
above and jump and move around and so we
did since then I’ve never looked back it
was a little bit later when I met a
person who had a major impact on my life
and on my career
his name is nirvan and he’s their
creative director of a rhythm group in
Israel called demente everyone showed me
that you can move away the drum kit
completely and still be a drummer he
showed me how to produce sounds and
music for my body and how to dance and
drum at the same time he was also a
master of creative recycling and he
showed me that any piece anything no
matter what is it you can make a great
sound out of it doesn’t matter how
useless it looks like I joined the
Vaughn group and we toured Israel and
Europe for the next six years performing
everywhere we could I started teaching
body percussion and creative recycling
in schools for kids and I was doing
quite well but just then my girlfriend
at the time my wife today
suggested that we moved to Australia now
that was a really hard decision for me
because I worked so hard to get to where
it was it means I have to start all over
again but she did mention that there was
a growing movement of awareness for
recycling and sustainability here in
Australian that the people here would
love what I do
so I said you know what let’s give it a
try we packed our bags and our dog and
we hopped on a plane and landed in this
beautiful country when I arrived here on
my first week I discovered two great
things one there were no other junk
percussion groups here that was a great
sign too there is this unbelievable
amazing thing called council clean up
now for those of you are not familiar
with it with this term let me clarify
council clean up in Australia means that
every once in a while you can take out
everything you don’t want in your house
put it on the street in front of your
house and the council will come pick it
up after a few days so you can imagine
how I felt when I was
walking in the street and realizing I’m
surrounded by piles of junk I was
shocked I asked someone some stranger in
the street what’s going on and he told
me that’s his councillor clean up and I
asked can I take this he said yeah I
thought I’d died and reach to heaven
I bought a van and start driving in the
streets of Sydney collecting many many
different items and very soon I was in
my happy place in my backyard surrounded
by hundreds of different items I divided
them two groups based on their sound I
started cutting them and putting them
together drilling and welding and cable
tying these things creating bizarre
instruments I took him down to the
streets of Sydney and started performing
in front of everybody who would listen
while I was doing so I also enrolled
into a music business course in TAFE so
can I can have a better understanding of
the industry and I also auditioned local
drummers and dancers I had the vision of
creating a group similar to the one I
had in Israel so here I am today two
years later and I’m very thrilled to
tell you that we now have a thriving
family under the name of junkyard beets
we’ve been performing all over
Australian events and festivals we’re
teaching workshops for kids in schools
we’re running programs with communities
and to be honest for me this is a dream
come true today we’re giving you a
little taste of the junkyard beats world
we took our one-hour show and we
compressed it into six minutes of
extremely high energy routine that will
showcase most of our instruments I
really hope you like it and I hope you
find it inspiring I’m encouraging you
guys to try this at home and I hope you
will never look at your household items
in the same way after seeing this show
ladies and gentlemen thank you very much
for your time I present to you junkyard
beats
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