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Sound and sentiment

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What does happiness sound like? What about misery? Musician Mira Calix explores the emotional qualities embedded in music and noise and shares a sound-based spectrum of human sentiments that emerged from her work.

What does happiness sound like? What about misery? Musician Mira Calix explores the emotional qualities embedded in music and noise and shares a sound-based spectrum of human sentiments that emerged from her work.

This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with Intel.

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About the speaker

Mira Calix

Multifarious musician

Award winning, UK-based composer, artist and performer Mira Calix incorporates her electronic style with classical orchestration into her work for installation pieces, film soundtracks, theatre and opera. Calix is a regular contributor to Intel’s Creators Project which focuses on advancing the research within Intel Labs on emotional connectedness through technology and media.

About TED Institute

Every year, TED works with a group of select companies and foundations to identify internal ideators, inventors, connectors, and creators. Drawing on the same rigorous regimen that has prepared speakers for the TED main stage, TED Institute works closely with each partner, overseeing curation and providing intensive one-on-one talk development to sharpen and fine tune ideas. The culmination is an event produced, recorded, and hosted by TED, generating a growing library of valuable TED Talks that can spur innovation and transform organizations.

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This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with Intel.

Read more about the TED Institute.