Random Talks

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

Grenville Pinto dazzling the TEDxYouth@Toronto crowd at the Ontario Science Centre with this breathtaking performance.

Guitar Virtuoso Don Alder gets the crowd to rethink the possibilities of the Acoustic Guitar

Should our educators pay more attention to music? Yes, they should, says Jesse Boere. He will give you a glimpse into your brain on music and inspire

With each note I play, a world is created in my head. Born in Pakistan, Usman is an artist, a performing musician, a composer, and a film-maker. His c

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

Ajay Kapur is the Director of the Music Technology program (MTIID) at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as the Associate Dean for Research

Can you imagine one love? Xiren ends the event with a delightfully composed mash-up of John Lennon and U2. And for the second piece, he uses powerful

Bruce Huebner’s shakuhachi sound is unbounded by musical convention, flowing from freeform to jazz to Japanese traditional music to Celtic to Western

Could you live in a world without music? Former DJ and record label owner Jakob Lusensky is dedicated to probing our thoughts on that bleak scenario.

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Rachel Sui plays Paul Stanhope’s beautiful ‘Dawn Lament’ for solo cello.

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Duncan Mckee believes that we can learn to improve the way w

The greatest artists are those who manage to soar creatively yet stay grounded. Tokiko Kato has won the Japan Record Award twice, made over seventy al

Sometimes the libretto to a life is already written. John Ken Nuzzo was a university business major in California before he seriously contemplated a p

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and surrounding environment. In this captivati