Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body

www.ted.com In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 tedtalks on TED.com, at http

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21 comments

  1. MrMinkStar
    January 15, 2010 at 3:29 am

    @lordknives1111

    “deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie”

    T’would seem that way.

  2. MrMinkStar
    January 15, 2010 at 3:43 am

    @shawnabgoode

    Drums are easiest? Seriously, don’t offend me. Drums may not be the hardest thing around, but by god they take alot more out of you physically than any other instrument, and you need a fair bit of skill to play them at the same time. It takes a special kind of person to play drums well, someone who is creative and musical, yet fit at the same time. Which is a hard thing to find, considering most people usually go for one of those atributes.

  3. usadave1621
    January 21, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    nope, profoundly deaf since age 12.

  4. LeviVdBogaard
    January 22, 2010 at 5:19 am

    I wouldn’t say drums are the easiest. I think a better word is ‘basic’. Drums are the earliest and most basic form of music, and therefore the most crucial part of a musical piece, that which binds everything else onto a certain ‘beat’ or rhythm which resonates with the listener, though subconciously, first and above all else. Also, basic does not mean drums cannot be complex.

  5. pepsico8
    January 25, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    She never was deaf she is a con

  6. withatwist08
    January 26, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    i kinda heard some indian in there too

  7. WatchAlou
    January 27, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    She’s deaf. I’ve met her.

  8. EmilyLikesCrayons
    January 31, 2010 at 12:00 am

    So…is she deaf or not?

  9. 123hongkyung
    February 1, 2010 at 11:34 pm

    Irish

  10. dothque
    February 3, 2010 at 2:58 am

    she have a strong irish or scotish accent

  11. joet63
    February 3, 2010 at 4:30 am

    This is a brilliant piece of work by our very own Aberdonian lass Evelyn Glennie!

  12. drummenator
    February 3, 2010 at 10:48 am

    Scottish

  13. xxxswoodyxxx
    February 4, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    she is one of my heroes

  14. WhenSheepGoBad
    February 6, 2010 at 12:43 am

    I know how, smoke shome weed.

  15. Gago559
    February 6, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    dont understand what she’s talking about, but interesting lady

  16. firant827
    February 7, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    @pepsico8
    She never said she was completely deaf, just profoundly deaf. It’s still a hindrance to her ability to listen to music in the conventional way. Either way, she’s one of the top percussionists in the world.

  17. tastenschwein1991
    February 7, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    she is not completely deaf but has a hearing of 20% only.
    and if she may be a con or not has nothing to do with her really helping and progressive theories.

  18. eliyam27
    February 11, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    thank you very much!

  19. edwinstar100
    February 11, 2010 at 11:07 pm

    I watched all of this before realizing she was deaf. AMAZING, what a talent deaf or not. I think she is saying, we have to get out of the way of ourselves, like not clutching the stick, and become conduits or “sound enablers” I find this is so true of playing the piano

  20. PortionsForFoxes0
    February 12, 2010 at 5:08 am

    unbelievably inspiring, she’s truly an amazing artist :)

  21. Ishrath
    February 17, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Thank you for quoting my article link. Evelyn is a true genius, who makes us think if great people are born or made :-)

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