You have to wonder what Mr and Mrs Horn must have thought about the noises that emanated from their son Tom's bedroom when he was growing up in Brisbane. ''Yeah, mostly from the shower,'' corrects the ...

One man's vocal abilities has left us, well, a little speechless. Tom Thum, the Australian beatboxer extraordinaire who, according to the Guardian UK, "appears to have swallowed an entire orchestra ...

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM Jason Tom recorded a beatbox version of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” when he was 4. Today he is ranked as one of the top 75 male professional beatboxers in the ...

Remember Larvell Jones, the human sound effects CD played by Michael Winslow in the "Police Academy" movies? He's just a cadet compared to the noise that comes out of this fella named Tom Thum. The ...

BACK in town for the local debut of his solo show at the Brisbane Festival, beatbox talent Tom Thum says he is delighted to be "flown around the world to make weird noises". Instead, the Brisbane ...

Which, do you imagine, is harder on the human voice: [rock singer sound], or [soprano sound]—or this [beatboxing sample]? Beatboxing, as musician Tom Thum was doing in that last example, uses the ...