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Ted Talk: Beauty in Sounds
- Nature
- Language
- Silence
She’s a musician and she discusses how the sounds she hear everyday influence the music we make. At one point, she plays a snippet of what she initially tells the audience is an opera singer warming up before a performance. She then tells them it’s a slowed down recording of a bird singing. I consider myself a collector of sounds, experiences, and simple everyday events that happen in life so I find this talk very insightful. Meklit talks about other ways natural sounds have inspired her music and thoughts. She discusses a few more things such as
- The natural world can be our musical teacher
- Countless works of music were inspired by bird and forest song
- Even in the most silent environments, we still hear and feel the sound of our own heartbeats.
- The world is alive with musical expression
- The human auditory system actually evolved to hear music
As I stated, this is one of the most naturally inspiring Ted Talks I’ve heard and I am glad to share it. Check it out.