Barbershop is a boffo new style of music invented by stAllio!. Inspired by musique concrete and the work of singers like Mike Patton, barbershop music is an exploration of the human voice as an instrument. All the parts of a barbershop song are vocals; percussion sounds are achieved through beat-boxing, instruments (both real & imaginary) are mimicked using only the vocal apparatus. Unlike barbershop quartets, from which barbershop music takes its name, only one musician is needed for recording (instead of 4 or more) so long as that artist has a 4-track tape recorder.