Random Talks

Jennifer Strum calls the viola the “middle child of the string instruments.” Through a mixture of talk and performance, she offers a compe

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Struggling people probably need music more than others. What makes Makoto Kuriya such a distinctive pianist are the soulful groove he developed while

English with French subtitles Graduated from Rice University in the United States and from the Academy of Lausanne, Zhang Zhang shows us with enjoymen

Uzman takes us into another world with his ability to glide around on the guitar. Born in Pakistan, Usman is an artist, a performing musician, a compo

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José Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School at SMU, has taught at Stanford and Georgetown, written over 100 scholarly articles, edited the Cambridge Compan

Caravan of Thieves is a troupe of gypsy-swinging, serenading, fire-breathing musicians who dazzled the TEDxEast attendees with their performance.

Laima Jansone is the most accomplished and the most promising Latvian traditional kokle player, who is especially gifted in the demanding art of impro

Known in the music realm as Shing02, bilingual rapper Shingo Annen spent his childhood in Tanzania, London and Japan. At the age of 15, he moved to th

“Music has nationalities, but does not have borders.” It was this notion that started Kohei Inoue’s journey to explore the potential of Japanese music

How can we blend the spontaneity and interaction of live ensemble performance with the 21st century’s most powerful instrument? In this visionar

In 2009, composer Ei Wada and four musician friends―Kimitoshi Sato, Takuya Namba, Yu Yoshida and Tadashi Yoshida―had a wacky retro idea: Let’s mix ana

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/from-aaliya… Jonathan Mannion once convinced rapper DMX to climb into a pool of blood — all in

Shenan "Shen" Brown - Artist

Jess Nolan performs three original songs she wrote, and discusses the creative writing process she engaged in for each. Jess Nolan, a New Jersey nativ