Name: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
Uploaded: 2015-10-16T15:00:00Z
Duration: 12 min 53 s
Description: Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical expression," she says. "We are already immersed."

Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical expression," she says. "We are already immersed."

Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds

The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds

Language, in its melodicism and rhythm, serves as a rich source of musical composition, blurring lines between speech and song.

Birdsong slowed reveals operatic techniques, suggesting nature as a primordial music instructor; a concept rooted in Ethiopian lore.

Amharic's melodic intonation transforms everyday language into music, illustrating the intrinsic musicality in human communication.