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

http://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 give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews... Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives https://www.facebook.com/TED

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 34:06
Rating: 4.925
Views: 427868

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