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hc - Beat Up //

In addition to the Jake Paul styled fights and occasional tournaments the Kongs like to participate in, or simply watch and cheer via the Kong Arena, they are also fond of another activity held at the arena known as Beat Up. Whereas the arena is typically a host for battle of the brawn, Beat Up shakes things up a bit and cleanses the palletes of violence-hungry Kongs by introducing the idea of voice battles.

It's no secret in the jungle kingdom, especially amongst the younger, more 'hip' crowd, that jamming out is a way to really pass a vibe check in the party scene, and because Kongs in general are a species that are mutually sound-sensitive and capable of musically-intrinsic activities, it was only a matter of time before they came up with a game that's basically ultimate karaoke - but a lot more flashy.

A game of Beat Up starts with two opponents who are usually skilled in one genre of music over others based on their own personal music preferences. Once determined, the two preferences are scrambled around on a scoreboard. As a timer ticks down, the screen will eventually pause to show one option settled underneath a heading of 'lyrics' and one under a heading of 'beat'. Then a song title will appear under each category as well.

From there, the beat of a randomly generated song from the chosen genre will play without its lyrics. The choice of which lyrics to use comes down to opponents, as the person stronger in the beat will often choose the beat's original lyrics to better outshine their opponent with the fairness condition that because they aren't picking the harder option, they will play more of a back up role in the duet. So the real fighter in Beat Up tends to be the opponent that does not get their favorite genre as the beat, prompting them to up their game by making their favored music genre sound amazing even without its original beat.

Both opponents will have to get creative and make the forced mash up of a song sound amazing for the audience as well as try to stand out over the other in terms of performance, and this is judged based on the noise level of the crowd which can be drummed up by either sounding the best, or a combination of sounding well, but hyping the crowd up with flashy movements made across the arena in time with the beat of the chosen song.

Example (from my 'happens in teen world verse', this would be an example of the beat chosen being pop and the person better at pop chooses the song's actual lyrics and is playing the back up to the heavy metal fan who is using heavy metal lyrics to the pop beat. So, basically when grungy teen Bowz challenges pretty boy pop DK to the dumb monkey game to show off in front of Peach most likely from my Peaches&Roses verse, heh (no but HEH the verse title reminds me of Guns&Roses which was super unintentional but now I see it). This battle probably just ends in Bowz exhausting himself doing metalvoice that fast and DK taking the back seat lyrics cruise controlling until the end where he can show off with his hair flips. But in the end, DK ends up just having fun over trying to win because the battle actually sounds cool and he's down for a bop and a 'we should jam more often' request afterwards.

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Un gran honor para nosotros que @nezer_eve colabore en el nuevo disco de @ankor_official junto con otras grandes voces femeninas de Cataluña! Qué ganas de poder oír a estos vozarrones juntos! #flamesatsunrise #ankor #music #metalhead #metalcore #rock #metal #evenezer #metalgirls #metalvoice #catalonia #cat

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#Repost @acceptworldwide with @get_repost ・・・ ‪Happy Birthday to our vocalist Mr. Mark Tornillo! 🎉🥳🎁🤘🏽🖤‬ ‪#metalvoice #metalvocalist #acceptsinger #birthday #marktornillo #acceptband #metalbirthday‬ #ashleytalentinternational https://www.instagram.com/p/CBK_uqaHVVl/?igshid=q9z6vorscg6t

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[pinksound]

Pink Noises review: Pamela Z

By Tonisha Hope McCorkle

Born in Buffalo, NY in 1956, Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, and sound artist. She works with voice, sampling technologies, live electric processing, and video. She performs wearing the BodySynth (as shown in the photo above), which is a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) controller that transforms movement, gestures, and other muscle efforts into sounds. Pamela has been using it since the early ‘90s:

“I liked it so much, because I use gestures a lot anyway, and I wanted to be able to use samplers without standing behind a keyboard or using drum triggers.”

With her first public performance dating back to when she was just five years old, Pamela Z has an extensive repertoire of using her voice and found objects to make sound. She played guitar and was a singer-songwriter in the fifth grade, eventually played the viola in elementary school through junior high, and she sang in the choir in high school. She studied classical voice when she attended college at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and moved to San Francisco, California in 1984. 

Pamela Z’s work often explores the boundaries between sound and language. Repetition often arises in her audios, mainly coming from found texts or words being repeated through sampling or looping.

“There’s something about the perfect repetition of something that changes it, because your ear begins to hear it differently when it gets repeated over and over… You hear different frequency layers within it, and so it changes color, it changes the sound of the vowel. All of this is happening in your ear, but you think it's happening in reality.”

Pamela Z incorporates technologies into every piece she does. In one of her projects, Voci, voice itself is the technology that she uses to communicate with. It goes through intermediaries, like a telephone. Voci takes on issues of madness and hysteria, which correlates with Pamela’s interest in the history of mad women in the operatic tradition. People are so amazed that she does what she does as a woman, and because they’ve never seen a black person doing it –“I was convinced that I should do it for women,” she states. 

Pamela Z’s performance style and voice is unique to say the least. What I found most intriguing about her is her ability to use muscle contractions together with her melodic voice in her work. She doesn’t like being restricted “behind a keyboard or using drum triggers”, so with her love of technology she is able to communicate sounds through her movements using the BodySynth. I think this process is very innovative and different, and reading about her growth from early years to present day was very engaging. It’s interesting to see a technological device working with the human body, and it’s even more mesmerizing hearing the sound that comes from it. Her voice and the items she uses in her live performances all work together to produce natural and unforced sounds, creating beautifully resonated pieces. 

Check out more of her work by clicking the links below!

MetalVoice, an excerpt from Voci : 

http://www.pamelaz.com/MetalVoiceMov.html

Her Vimeo page is very cool 😊:

  https://vimeo.com/pamelaz

Lists of technologies and Set-up for live performances : 

http://www.pamelaz.com/gear.html