Music is a visual art | Hunter Ewen | TEDxBoulder

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. We can use visuals to better describe music.

Hunter Ewen is a dramatic music composer, educator, and multimedia designer. During the day, Dr. Ewen teaches strategies for digital creativity at the University of Colorado, the children’s collaborative art center Reel Kids, the City of Longmont, and as an independent educator. At night, he composes, solders, choreographs, and directs interdisciplinary projects around the world. Experimental performance practices and unusual notation figure prominently in Ewen’s works. A believer that compositions should be both seen and heard, his music looks as strange as it sounds. Swirles, squiggles, arrows, and fangs often replace traditional notes and rests. His aesthetic preferences gravitate towards yowls and yips and wails and squeals. Towards screams that masquerade as art. Towards clamor and deviance. Ewen’s music swings from chandeliers.

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[ahmetustunt]

Music is the best thing in the world. It can changr our mood quickly. But we can do more than listening. We can feel music in some way. For example, visual notes can help us to see music we listen before.

[GustavoStrauss]

Great, i totally agree!! ( i just have to add, that graphic notation is used already for a really long time from so many composers)

[Iamtesting]

Amazing Hunter. So proud to have you as both a friend and faculty member at Reel Kids :) 

[danielewen]

Evocative yet grounded-
Thoughtful and complex made accessible

[AridjGheribi-slkf]

Amazing
I always visualise the same thing and try to move my hands and fingers and i didn't know it was such a thing as that ❤❤❤
Woooow
Thank you

[Phrogz]

I saw this live and LOVED the pace of the delivery, and the accompanying visuals. Fast and tantalizing. I wish many more of your slides had made it into the video, but…ah well. Well done, and thank you for the auditory, visual, and experiential joy!

[StefanGBucher]

Oh, great talk, Hunter! Beautifully done! And the bit at 7:00 is very similar how I prep animating to music, putting on a sort of abstract visual meter on top of the track I've chosen. Love this!

[megfeldman]

This gave me a whole new perspective on music! Thank you, Hunter! Great talk. 

[leannezimmerman]

Really incredible concepts! I'm so excited for where this will take you. So cool!

[sallbang]

Watch a music video of the song you know. You will feel the meaning behind the music

[fernandaportilho]

I'd really LOVE to share this video with my friends, but they don't speak or understand English. Is there a version with subtitles in Portuguese or Spanish?

[farshadnoravesh]

music generation in artificial intelligence should be parsed from his great ideas.