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This is one of my favorite TED talks. Since I saw it a few months ago, I've told, literally, more than 100 people about it in real life. It surprised me that it wasn't already on the sift. The whole idea of a deaf musician being such a celebrated musician is amazing to me. And as you can see from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Glennie, her discussion of her process of hearing and experiencing music is rather rare.
The thing is, the video is wonderful even if you don't know she is deaf. Just watching the difference between literal performance and interpretation is wonderful.
Go to http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/103 for the end that YouTube cuts off.
The thing is, the video is wonderful even if you don't know she is deaf. Just watching the difference between literal performance and interpretation is wonderful.
Go to http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/103 for the end that YouTube cuts off.
Her Web SIte: http://www.evelyn.co.uk/
I'm awfully glad to see this doing better this time.
I don't know why, but I somehow thought TED was one of the VS hosts, which of course I see now it isn't. I was wondering if their wide screen would be an issue. Anyway, go to the TED folks for the full show. It's worth it.
Ant, give us 20 more years and we'll have auditory brain implants. 10 years after that, they'll be as good as young teenagers' ears and everyone will want them. 50 years after that and humanity will hear what it never thought hearable, and on command...