Just a note: this is a recording of the livestream. TEDxZurich will still release the full quality video after post-production is finished, hopefully in the next week.
I feel like he starts out his improv like "ok, what do I do?", and by the time he hits the ride hes fully "in the flow". I like how his improv builds to a climax and then quietly exits with an outro, it feels like a song, even though its just drums.
yes thanks for the upload. I love when this happens - merging of 2 things i do that was always seperated in my head - drumming videos on youtube and watching ted talks. Mind blown.
His message actually made a lot of sense! We are the distance between 0 and 1, and that's what makes us human. Very cool to see a fellow beat maker on TEDx :)
interesting when he said about how at the onset of machines and industry was also about the time of the emergence of drums as a central figure in music. interesting because when i hear machines running i listen for the pulse and different rhythmic patterns and how those patterns can be built upon and modulated in different ways. very cool correlation he presented.
Jojo Mayer is an individual to respect musically and intellectually. I've hear him say: "You play as fast as you think" Listening to him speak not only in his videos and interviews, puts to an end putting down the intellect of drummers which is very common among musicians. Listen to Buddy Rich and Steve Gadd interviews. Keep on think fast!
@wildsnydon If you're talking about the very beginning i think it's just the mix being changed by the sound man rather than Jojo doing anything. There are clips on youtube though of him changing the pitch and resonance of the bass drum by pressing the toe of his left foot on the bass drum head while playing it with the right foot
@andydrummergb The brush solo is in the other video called 'Encore' But by all means go and watch it on TED and support them as a thank you for putting on great talks
@FrankTdrumz Sorry about that mate, The audio wasn't that loud on the stream and it did boost it a bit before uploading to try and help. comes out plenty loud enough on my laptop though which is why I left it
I think it's Mayer's personal mic, which got turned off after he started playing. Right after his first solo, the sound got re-boosted when his mic got turned back on.
Who would have ever thought a bunch of sample and drum machine music coming out of the British underground rave scene would lead to one of the most significant developments in drum sound and technique in the past decade?
jojo is incredible with this mixings and hes feeling...i´m not saying that he is the best, becouse that doesnrt mean nothing today...but i know he ´s original and authentic...and that no one can say its false. So...suck is emotions
The goal is to emphasize what the drum machine cannot after mastering (or as much as we can) what a drum machine brings to the table. The distance between 0 and 1 is the human element and the nuance. Notice how his entire solo is built around the nuance of the hi-hat, an instrument otherwise relegated to time keeping like a drum machine. So interesting.
@aciddrums. You don't fully understand where he's coming from. He's not on a pursuit to get closer to machines. He's embraced the textures of electronic music because it gives him an unlimited space for expression. Where as jazz and other styles confine him. That's just a little bit of it.
@sweetfly66 Yeah Roli Mossiman is a massive part of their live performance. However i'm guessing that he isn't with Jojo for this particular performance. There is other part during the performance where his drums are being manipulated by the soundman. Normally in a nerve live performance Roli would add lots of stuff on the fly. I don't hear any of that hear
@shawoody He mentioned jazz, which simplifies the origins but is close to correct. He never denies the African-American influence (which was primary but not exclusive)
It's the imperfections that make anything manmade even have a chance at being perfect. I'm of the mindset that nothing man has the ability to create can't be re-conquered again. Could be very wrong, but I'm unaware of something that man created that man could not also improve, ignore, destroy, repair, or repurpose. As a drummer and an engineer in training I say he's right. If we create it we should also be responsible for being its master somehow, or we will lose something central to our lives.
@alastairerrett Ah no problem, I'll check it out later with my headphones on. Thanks for sharing, very insightful, Jojo is a great speaker and one of the finest drummers out there.
Is TED the same series that's gonna B on Science Channel soon?!? I hope to hear from alot of musicians in the series, but I doubt there'll be very many.
Love this speech. Love listening to him speak. However, I feel that his obsession with drum machines and playing like one have really changed his thought process into 0 or 1. His improv is mainly pieced of licks that he repeats everywhere -- you can find them in his videos all over youtube. I'm in no way hating, I love everything about Jojo, but I feel like Chris Dave is really the drummer who has found the distance between 0 and 1 and truly expresses it in his playing.
originaly the bass drum is spelled base drum, because it's the base of the drum but is decayed (dont know if thats the correct word, not a native english speaker) into bass drum, so base drum is not wrong, it's just old fashioned ;)
1984 with Watchtower. It was technical rather than prog. I'm pretty sure Meshuggah didn't do anything too innovative until way later, even then Confessor beat them to it. Atheist, Death, and Confessor all set a pretty high bar by 1990.
Height of the picture is irrelevant. The data rate from the streaming is throttled which causes stuttering, and the frame rate too low also causing jerkiness. I'd expect a VEVO cool-aid drinker to know this.
The "point" was that, in his attempt to imitate computer generated drum patterns, he discovered that musicians, through means of improvisation, can operate at a level of precision that surpasses the ability of finite computers.
I tried to copy machines to push myself. In the process I discovered what it means to be human. I am hoping that one day machines will have that experience. Let me play drums for you now. Thank you.
Its always nice to see a drummer that has a highly developed philosophy behind how he does what he does
Just a note: this is a recording of the livestream. TEDxZurich will still release the full quality video after post-production is finished, hopefully in the next week.
Anyone noticed he played that whole thing with the stick backward on left hand?
THAT'S TOO EPIC!!!
I feel like he starts out his improv like "ok, what do I do?", and by the time he hits the ride hes fully "in the flow". I like how his improv builds to a climax and then quietly exits with an outro, it feels like a song, even though its just drums.
Have been a fan of JoJo's style for years. It's awesome he finally has this platform. He deserves it!
yes thanks for the upload. I love when this happens - merging of 2 things i do that was always seperated in my head - drumming videos on youtube and watching ted talks. Mind blown.
His message actually made a lot of sense! We are the distance between 0 and 1, and that's what makes us human. Very cool to see a fellow beat maker on TEDx :)
What a GREAT audience... Awesome one-man standing ovation at the end...
This lecture is so inspiring. It reassures me that computers can never replace musicians.
wait until gpt is trained on such music...
interesting when he said about how at the onset of machines and industry was also about the time of the emergence of drums as a central figure in music. interesting because when i hear machines running i listen for the pulse and different rhythmic patterns and how those patterns can be built upon and modulated in different ways. very cool correlation he presented.
It's incredible what "density" of sounds and music he is able to create, without having speed as his leading aspect.....
Thanks a lot for uploading this clip.
He´s a great drummer and also a interesting/wise speaker ..
Jojo Mayer is an individual to respect musically and intellectually. I've hear him say: "You play as fast as you think" Listening to him speak not only in his videos and interviews, puts to an end putting down the intellect of drummers which is very common among musicians. Listen to Buddy Rich and Steve Gadd interviews. Keep on think fast!
Super sophisticated mastery - most inspiring!
@wildsnydon If you're talking about the very beginning i think it's just the mix being changed by the sound man rather than Jojo doing anything. There are clips on youtube though of him changing the pitch and resonance of the bass drum by pressing the toe of his left foot on the bass drum head while playing it with the right foot
between 0 and 1 .. so inspiring .. thank you
the paradiddle hes doin on the snare at 14:06 is just awesome.
correction: the whole drumming is awesome
Thanks JoJo and TED!! Great stuff!
Wow! So glad I watched this!
@andydrummergb The brush solo is in the other video called 'Encore' But by all means go and watch it on TED and support them as a thank you for putting on great talks
Holy ****, this is superb - what a genius
he knows exactly how to perfom masterfully!
Love the groove he does at 12:51
he´s a drum guru, absolutely with no doubt
@FrankTdrumz Sorry about that mate, The audio wasn't that loud on the stream and it did boost it a bit before uploading to try and help. comes out plenty loud enough on my laptop though which is why I left it
14:45 that slow flam+ that roll back into it o.O oh my good god.
I think it's Mayer's personal mic, which got turned off after he started playing. Right after his first solo, the sound got re-boosted when his mic got turned back on.
Who would have ever thought a bunch of sample and drum machine music coming out of the British underground rave scene would lead to one of the most significant developments in drum sound and technique in the past decade?
jojo is incredible with this mixings and hes feeling...i´m not saying that he is the best, becouse that doesnrt mean nothing today...but i know he ´s original and authentic...and that no one can say its false.
So...suck is emotions
El maestro es todo lo que hay que decir....El Maestro....Jojo
Nice job.
Awesome stuff.
If Jojo wrote a book on this subject I would read it!
JOJO AT TED OH MY GOD WHAT IM SO HAPPY
4:59
at the very beginning it sounded like he changed the tuning of his kick or was he just hitting it lighter??
The goal is to emphasize what the drum machine cannot after mastering (or as much as we can) what a drum machine brings to the table. The distance between 0 and 1 is the human element and the nuance. Notice how his entire solo is built around the nuance of the hi-hat, an instrument otherwise relegated to time keeping like a drum machine. So interesting.
Now that's what I call DEPTH! If there's a "doctor" of drums, it must be Jojo.
Awesome!! greetings!
@aciddrums. You don't fully understand where he's coming from. He's not on a pursuit to get closer to machines. He's embraced the textures of electronic music because it gives him an unlimited space for expression. Where as jazz and other styles confine him. That's just a little bit of it.
Way to go, Ted !
You have one of the greatest
drummers of all time, and you
fuck up the sound.
Thats awesome !
Great sociology lesson! This is interesting. He should analyse now, why drumming has become the prisonner of academics and obsessed with control!
yeah i just realised that, first couple of kicks were caught up by a camera mic
thank you very much
@sweetfly66 Yeah Roli Mossiman is a massive part of their live performance. However i'm guessing that he isn't with Jojo for this particular performance. There is other part during the performance where his drums are being manipulated by the soundman. Normally in a nerve live performance Roli would add lots of stuff on the fly. I don't hear any of that hear
Jojo, you're genius
@shawoody He mentioned jazz, which simplifies the origins but is close to correct. He never denies the African-American influence (which was primary but not exclusive)
It's the imperfections that make anything manmade even have a chance at being perfect. I'm of the mindset that nothing man has the ability to create can't be re-conquered again. Could be very wrong, but I'm unaware of something that man created that man could not also improve, ignore, destroy, repair, or repurpose. As a drummer and an engineer in training I say he's right. If we create it we should also be responsible for being its master somehow, or we will lose something central to our lives.
I am trying to learn the groove Jojo played at 5.00. Is that by Gene Krupa?
@alastairerrett Ah no problem, I'll check it out later with my headphones on. Thanks for sharing, very insightful, Jojo is a great speaker and one of the finest drummers out there.
the king of rhythm!
Is TED the same series that's gonna B on Science Channel soon?!? I hope to hear from alot of musicians in the series, but I doubt there'll be very many.
how he change the kick drum resonance in the beginning like that?
great drummer, artist.musician and humabn being
wow, thanks I never knew that but like a drum kit does he just gets better with age.
The Zen Master has spoken!
what a legend.
A God....Jojo, that was awesome.
The distance between 0 and 1 is meditation, is the infinite, is all meaning of life
friggin amazing ...
His timing is impossibly accurate for a non-machine.
what's the name of the first drum beat he played when he was talking about kids rebeling?? :)
Wow he sounds just like my garageband loops! Why do we need him again?
compare any good band to their live performance
Amazing!!
Genial!! saludos desde Perú :D
hes amazing
Jojo the best
I love that man. He's crazy,
Love this speech. Love listening to him speak. However, I feel that his obsession with drum machines and playing like one have really changed his thought process into 0 or 1. His improv is mainly pieced of licks that he repeats everywhere -- you can find them in his videos all over youtube. I'm in no way hating, I love everything about Jojo, but I feel like Chris Dave is really the drummer who has found the distance between 0 and 1 and truly expresses it in his playing.
how is the first rythm called he plays around 4:50?
originaly the bass drum is spelled base drum, because it's the base of the drum but is decayed (dont know if thats the correct word, not a native english speaker) into bass drum, so base drum is not wrong, it's just old fashioned ;)
he plays the mind blowing jungle breaks @ 13:00
how is the groove in 5:03 min called ?
LEGEND!!!!
14:41 and the manual delay.
Thanks:)
JoJo looks either very tired or rather ill, hope he's ok. Great show
That's awesome
@teetomthomas It is?
"So in other words, to replicate this unphysical sound, I became a god" lol
ur prob just used to a deader sound... it actually sounds quite good!
Great concepts, but the thing was recorded on a security camera.
i think its more like triple than double
"Statistical Density"..... It's a Zappa concept. Nice JoJo. !!!
Watch as I perform some live drum and bass and go into a fucking hypnotic zone!
13:00 ....see how the stick never touches the hi-hat...that's the space between 0 and 1.
1984 with Watchtower. It was technical rather than prog. I'm pretty sure Meshuggah didn't do anything too innovative until way later, even then Confessor beat them to it. Atheist, Death, and Confessor all set a pretty high bar by 1990.
Height of the picture is irrelevant. The data rate from the streaming is throttled which causes stuttering, and the frame rate too low also causing jerkiness. I'd expect a VEVO cool-aid drinker to know this.
i hate to say it, but I think it's just the audio engineer pulling up the kick mic... the first part of the clip is probably just an ambient room mic?
i think those are just double strokes, although you'd achieve the same output if a paradiddle was used
I can barely hear it on my laptop speakers, full volume.
the first song I ever learned was Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman
His message obviously went right over your head.
I never noticed how much he sounds like Christopher Walken!!! Walkens...These are muuayy fuwwurkun craasps!.
The "point" was that, in his attempt to imitate computer generated drum patterns, he discovered that musicians, through means of improvisation, can operate at a level of precision that surpasses the ability of finite computers.
14:42 - 14:45 so goddamn cool
wow Screech really let himself go, but he turned out to be a kick ass drummer. Saved By The Bell rocks!
i need more reassurance
Lol its 720p mate.
no he was in a punk jazz/ funk band called Screaming Headless Torsos. Metallicas only drummer is Lars Ulrich
I tried to copy machines to push myself. In the process I discovered what it means to be human. I am hoping that one day machines will have that experience. Let me play drums for you now. Thank you.