Until a few years ago, the ukulele was a bit of a joke outside of Hawaii. Recently, thanks to artists like Jason Mraz, the uke is what all the cool kids are playing! Check out this video from TEDxTokyo, featuring Jake Shimabukuro. Jaw, prepare to drop.
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TED Talks: David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve
I just watched this fascinating TED video, featuring David Byrne, about the extent the sound of a building (or other environment) influences the style of music people write.
TED Talks: Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life
You might call me a wuss, but I really like Natalie Merchant. Even if you’re not into her, you have to admit that she’s a very talented artist. In her newest project, Leave Your Sleep, Merchant takes her lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry.
TED Talks: Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity
This TED video features Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic. He talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician — and what he learned. You may be familiar with the musician, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, who was played by Jamie Foxx in the recent film The Soloist. Called back onstage [...]
TED Talks: David Holt Plays Mountain Music
Another great video from the TED Talks conferences. There is such a great history of truly American music that is in danger of being lost to the sands of time. Thank you TED for keeping this alive! In this video folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom [...]
TED Talks: Rhythm is Everything, Everywhere
Three Videos That Will Change The Way You Think About Sound and Music from the TED Conferences that amazed me, and I thought might interest you. As I watch more TED videos, on many subjects, I come across more and more that feature music subject matter.
Three Videos That Will Change The Way You Think About Sound and Music
I bought an iPhone about a month ago. Needless to say, going from my crappy “text message-only” phone to this palm-sized super computer has been quite a change. I’m doing my best to avoid checking my email every five minutes. Other than a slight obsession with the game “line-up,” my iPhone usage has not yet [...]