Once upon a time in the early days of YouTube, my friend sent me a “Hot Girl Fails” video compilation or some such. One of the clips was at a music festival, with a girl rolling around on the ground being a total spaz. Then I casually walk across the frame, stepping around her, giving her what is probably the most WTF look I’ve ever given a person.

Agreed. He is certainly a skilled and knowledgeable musician, and has done quite well for himself. But I don’t think I’ve ever listened to anything of his more than once. My impression of his music tends to be sterile mostly-covers with kitschy arrangements that are heady and complex for the sake of it.

He played a role in designing his harmonizer, but didn’t build it himself. Nor did he invent the concept, he has said he was inspired by Imogen Heap. It is a cool instrument though, and probably the most advanced one I know of.

Multi instrumentalists are somewhat rare, but there are many of us in the world. Much like language, the more instruments you learn, the easier it is to learn more.

Definitely not the first person to get an audience to sing in harmony though, nor to sing Bach violin concertos.

Objectively, he’s achieved great success, and has many years left to achieve greater heights. But he’s not even on my shortlist of living musicians.

I think his strength lies in teaching and explaining musical concepts. A music communicator, if you will, more so than musician.

That is… an interesting combination of emotional intensities lol. Thanks, I will see if I can make sense of this :)

Participation intensifies