Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)

http://www.ted.com Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark -- and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.

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[HBSanta]

In theory, this should be really interesting and cool. In theory.

[quosmo1]

augmented synesthesia

[jecaine876]

very interesting.

[Charlie Brown]

Wow, he should call it a visualizer and sell the idea to microsoft for their media player.......

[Jacob Collier]

so he found a reason to be a pyro

[FunkyLlama11]

The Hawking Universe was so arbitrary and pointless

[Max Email]

LOL!

[buyaoren]

what you call 'party tricks' is elementary physics, made accessible for the average mind that does not have the capacity necessary to visualize this solely from raw data.

arguably, many economists might benefit from more thorough scientific training.

[Shaun Dean]

It's ok to applaud the laws of physics

[Jeff Howland]

awesome cc idea

[tomorrowisfinals]

so much weed.

[JankeyL]

omg this is so awesome