Empowering Your Musical Taste | Nolan Gasser | TEDxSonomaCounty

We all love music - but why? In this fascinating and entertaining talk, Nolan Gasser confronts the questions of what musical taste is, where it comes from, and how can we empower personal musical taste for our own betterment.


Nolan Gasser is a critically acclaimed composer, pianist, and musicologist – most notably, the architect of Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project and the company’s chief musicologist from its founding in 1999. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Stanford University. His original compositions have been performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, La Salle Pleyel (Paris), and the Rose Bowl (Pasadena), among many others.

[matchagaucho]

"God loves Jazz".... great point! :-)

[lilfam]

Pandora is huge now, This is an underrated Ted Talk

[hereandnowhappiness]

Highly engaging, well constructed and informative TED talk! Well done!