http://www.ted.com/talks/jared_ficklin_new_ways_to_see_music_with_color_and_fire.html The Ted Talk video that I watched was under the category of music, and as you can probably tell from the title, it was about seeing music and audio in different ways. This guy, Jared Ficklin was trying to show us how different audio waves look differently, so you can actually visually SEE music. It was really cool. One of the things that he was researching and he's in the process of refining in the video is showing the audio waves at the bottom of tv shows and for people who are hearing impaired. I really enjoyed this video because it was about something I'd never heard of before. The idea of actually SEEING music astounds me and I hope that it actually developes overtime and because part of our normal, everyday life. Jared's thesis was that you can see music using colours and fire. He proves his point by starting out the video using this thing called a "Ruben's Tube". It's an 8-foot tube of metal with a lot of holes in the top. The tube is hooked up to a propane tank, and fire comes out the stop. Then he plays different audio frequencies and the flames move in different waves and shorten and get higher each time the frequence changes. He also does the same with a flame table. Another way he proved his point was by showing us the visual impressions of the frequencies of the song, "Smells Like Team Spirit" by Nirvana. You can see the rises and falls of the song through the visual impression and if you'd ever heard the song before, you'd recognize these. The last way that Jared proved his point was by showing this (for lack of a better word) 'picture' he created. It was of the stars. Basically what he did was upload all 8 hours of a Steven Hawkings lecture. Then he used technology to determine where Steven ended his sentences. With that he put the stars in the sky. The bigger the star, the longer the sentence. Just to show it wasn't fake, he hooked it up to a Kinect and whenever he clicked on a star it would play back the sentence that was there in the 'constellation'. All in all I learned a lot from the video, and I really enjoyed it as well.
