"If you think about the music that means the most to you personally chances are it is because it has help you find a certain clarity in yourself, that language alone has not been able to provide". This is such a great quote.
I don't think it's a tough crowd, I think it's just the way the audio is mixed. At 11:19 Adam says "thank you", suggesting that the crowd did clap there but we can't hear it here.
@@eliyahfranson Agreed. Seems like a bit of a tough audience. Maybe it's just the audio. I doubt that it's a musical audience though, so that's probably why.
I’ve been searching for this video everywhere ever since I heard Adam did a Ted Talk... and only now does it show up into my TH-cam feed... THANKS TH-cam ALGORITHM
I'm Italian and sorry for my bad English, I try to explain myself at the best of my possibility...Beautiful explanation about music as a language, it means a lot if we think that our understand of the world is based on communication and social interaction, how can we express a meaning in different languages to have a better idea of the fact that we try to explain? And how we should approach a new concept trough different lenguages, it's the same if we think about different vocabulary in different lenguages, some lenguages explain something better than other lenguages, I think at Arabic or Chinese sentences that I cannot translate perfectly whit my Italian vocabulary! I think is pretty the same and Music is another way to express ourself powerfully and go beyond our lenguages obstacles. Music is a way to understand and feel something that we can't explain with ours lenguages. And it means a lot thinking about what, as Humans, we can't experience in our world.
Sometimes I find phrases in other languages and there's not similar construction in my language. I think it's like listening to a kind of poetry, something that we understand, but also something that I would not think of speaking in my original everyday language.
adam neely, his best insights into why we have music inside us, and why its dfficult to take out to express. nice.. obvious neely presentation. loved it.
This had me thinking that we have a similar challenge in expressing emotions through language. While many reduce emotions to simple words like anger, fear, happiness, etc. many tend to agree that emotions like music are so much more nuanced and complex than these words would have us believe and there is a certain ineffable aspect to emotion that words fall down in describing. In fact often poets, artists and musicians do better than psychologists, neuroscientists and doctors at capturing some of this.
Another fine presentation by Adam, of well composed insights to help share the beauty and truth of Music. This material should be of value and interest to poets, dancers, actors and even to visual artists who seek to create patterns that may reach or communicate as directly to human emotions, as music does. A lot of wisdom, experience and mastery of Music concepts and practice, condensed to only about 1/4 hour.
A bit late, but the audio we hear is from his mic, which is an extremely directional mic often used on stages for that exact reason, the volume of crowds, the mics are designed to be very sensitive to a small area and dropoff in response very fast to anything off-axis. Because of this we don't hear the crowds much, however there are parts where you can hear them quietly, there was definitely a lot of clapping, but also the people at TED talks tend to be respectful and not make tons of noise all the time and delay the presentation.
I already knew what he were about to say because I follow his channel a lot, and I understand perfectly every topic he talked about. Someone said that if you can't explain something you don't know it well enough, and I think that being clear and able to express something is really one the few things that matter a lot in life, and it's been so great that Adam made some clarity, and even explained - clarity. There are few people on earth good as him I guess.
hey Adam Neely. in regards to 13:30. I personally believe that in regards to language person one is speaking in regards to the filtration of how he experienced it and his vocabulary to then reach person two and be filtered through their visual and auditory perception then in relation to their experiences through the process is most likely reenacted in their mind to understand the portrayed message. And then with music is giving off a mathematically sound vibration which is happening and being expressed an experience in the present moment by person 1 and experienced by person 2 aswell. seems as if you were to put it into an equation the perception of music has less factors/filters to work through.
There was literally no facial reaction on his face after playing the lick, but when 1 minute later he ended up on the same frets of the bass as when playing the lick, you can almost see him smile. :D
That is also why music and taste in music is so subjective, easy categories like realism(that can be applied to visual art which is more often than not representative of real life objects) is thrown out the window and all that matters is that clarity of emotion that it brings upon yourself, and that will change drastically and seemingly randomly from one another.
No joke, I thought my headphones were broken so I took it apart and brought out my soldering gun but the next video played and I realized it was fine. Pls fix
Super low audio; super glad I usually have mono audio cause apparently its only one channel. Great talk but but the audio guys really messed this one up lol.
Music is a profound concept into the point or meaning of exsistance. The universe is vibration. Are bodies are The instruments that create the beat of the heart with the flow of the blood.
@TedXTalks you could really do better with the audio. Why not repair this? Adam Neely is worth listening to. This is a great talk. It is about the ability and effect of hearing...Decent sound quality playback for the clip would be worth the edit time and even uploading again.
Ted talk please fix audio issue. Playing on phone speaker is fine but over ear phones won't come out. It's a basic audio engineering mishap. It's ironic to the topic of this talk.
What did you guys think of the actual presentation (other than the shotty audio)? I feel that it was easily relatable, and it expressed clearly, something any musician would already understand, but I’d be interested to see if a non-musician would find it more or less insightful.
Same here, as a musician I loved it and felt that Adam expressed all the things I feel about music suuuuupper well, he always does. I just wonder how people less familiar with music theory and how it feels to play an instrument feels about this.
Great talk! I think that both language and music are symbolic systems, and so they stand in the same relationship to reality. But they are not the same, and music is not language proper. In language you may express statements about the world that may be true or false. In music you may express, well, something else. Feelings, perhaps, or maybe *yourself*. In both cases, music and language, we have symbolic representations, but of different varieties. They seem kind of tricky to outright conflate, I think. And then how about visual art, dance and all the rest of the arts, are they all language too? They are all symbolic and can all be used for expression, but at the same time they are all quite different, from each other and from language, and need to be understood on their own terms. I studied philosophy a long time ago and I also play music (!BASS!), and have tried to think about these things from time to time. Most of what I found most useful in aestethics I got from Nelson Goodmans Languages of Art, I guess that is where my view on music and the arts are coming from. It is a great book, I guess maybe you have read it? Anyway, thank you for an interesting and thought provoking talk!
Adam, you mention words and spoken language not being able to produce the anxiety or emotion that you demonstrate with the delayed resolution of "Shave and a haricut," but what about when words are drawn out or truncated to be completed later. A good pop culture reference for this would be the scene in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" when Frank-N-Furter delivers the line, " I see you shiver with antici........ PATION!". The end of anticipation is delayed in a way similar to you extending the resolution and evokes a similar feeling of anxiety and anticipation. Neither your example nor mine are ones regularly used. However there are ways for language to be used to evoke emotion just as you suggest music does. Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech does this as do many poems. Perhaps emotion is more easily brought out via music, but I think it a mistake to say language can't.
I set my volume to 100% to properly hear this but then I got afraid that there would be a loud audio glitch somewhere when somebody actually decides to fix the sound midway through. Great talk nonetheless.
He played the lick when he said the word lick. The absolute madman
He wasn't going to NOT slip that in there somehow :-D
I was so happy
we're talking about adam, we knew this was coming
DrewAJV when does it happen?
9:19 as well
My left ear really enjoyed this video...
I thought my headphones were busted
guess i just wore these backwards
I uploaded a fixed version
xD
INADRM thanks for the warning, didn’t have to waste anymore than 2 minutes on this
The audio is pretty shot. Mirroring it to left and right channels would help somewhat. Super disappointing issue for a talk about music and sound.
It wasn't that bad.
If you have the ability to sum your audio output to mono that will make it sound normal.
@@koalanectar9382 How do you do that
It’s sooo bad! 😢
It sounds especially bad if you're on a phone without earphones
"Manifestations of the platonic ideal of G Maj7"
-Adam Neely in a single quote
Stephen Cantarero I prefer the platonic ideal of Dm7b5
@@henryrichard7619 Eb11!
Me: yaaayy Adam Neely in a TED talk
Audio:
this is a big L and a small R for the audio
The absolute madlad played the lick while saying "lick," what a legend
"If you think about the music that means the most to you personally chances are it is because it has help you find a certain clarity in yourself, that language alone has not been able to provide". This is such a great quote.
I don't think it's a tough crowd, I think it's just the way the audio is mixed. At 11:19 Adam says "thank you", suggesting that the crowd did clap there but we can't hear it here.
Wave the crowd must have been clapping in the right channel...😢
What we're hearing is a direct out from Adam's head set, I think. Very directional, and low gain, since it's so close-mic'd.
If you turn your volume all the way up you can very faintly hear clapping in the background
Kata E
You can also tell when he asks for a key and you can’t hear the person saying F but he can
He did not just play the lick on Ted Talks
He did.
LifeOnTheEdge I don’t know if I should be shaking my head or very proud
@@eliyahfranson Franky, I'm just sad nobody laughed.
LifeOnTheEdge clearly they have never seen an Adam Neely video or know much about jazz
@@eliyahfranson Agreed. Seems like a bit of a tough audience. Maybe it's just the audio.
I doubt that it's a musical audience though, so that's probably why.
8:26 Oh no he didn't just play the lick!
SLICKKK HAHAHAHA
Glad I wasn't the only one who picked up on it. I love how he says it as well without breaking stride.
I was waiting for it!
and he played it right when he was saying "licks". good god what a man
And not even a chuckle from the crowd xD that's how I know his subs weren't there
Everybody losing their minds for the lick at 8:26 but how about 9:19
I’ve been searching for this video everywhere ever since I heard Adam did a Ted Talk... and only now does it show up into my TH-cam feed... THANKS TH-cam ALGORITHM
same, it didn't even pop up when I searched adam neely ted talk
and the sound volume is too low to hear without straining
it's easy enough to find. All I did was type in " adam neely ted talk" and there it was.
Now, enjoy this top 10 houses made only with a spoon
Love you for sneaking the lick in there at 8:26
Adam Neely at a wedding:
“Merriam webster defines wedlock as a bond between two people”
Merriam webster defines wedding as the fusing of two metals with a hot torch
Omg it's the real robert frib
Newest Adam Neely q+a.. "as i said in my TED Talk"... And now I'm here
For Android users:
Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing > Audio channel to Mono
Up there with his comfort bass guitar. You killed it Adam! :D
I see you Adam, subtly plugging those wedding gigs.
I'm Italian and sorry for my bad English, I try to explain myself at the best of my possibility...Beautiful explanation about music as a language, it means a lot if we think that our understand of the world is based on communication and social interaction, how can we express a meaning in different languages to have a better idea of the fact that we try to explain? And how we should approach a new concept trough different lenguages, it's the same if we think about different vocabulary in different lenguages, some lenguages explain something better than other lenguages, I think at Arabic or Chinese sentences that I cannot translate perfectly whit my Italian vocabulary! I think is pretty the same and Music is another way to express ourself powerfully and go beyond our lenguages obstacles. Music is a way to understand and feel something that we can't explain with ours lenguages. And it means a lot thinking about what, as Humans, we can't experience in our world.
Sometimes I find phrases in other languages and there's not similar construction in my language. I think it's like listening to a kind of poetry, something that we understand, but also something that I would not think of speaking in my original everyday language.
Loved it. Explained many things I’ve often pondered about how improvisation is created. How strange that I could only hear it with my left ear.
adam neely, his best insights into why we have music inside us, and why its dfficult to take out to express. nice..
obvious neely presentation. loved it.
13:05 Dammit Neely, you never resolved that phrase!
This had me thinking that we have a similar challenge in expressing emotions through language. While many reduce emotions to simple words like anger, fear, happiness, etc. many tend to agree that emotions like music are so much more nuanced and complex than these words would have us believe and there is a certain ineffable aspect to emotion that words fall down in describing. In fact often poets, artists and musicians do better than psychologists, neuroscientists and doctors at capturing some of this.
Adam on TED super cool congratulations!!!
For those not enjoying the left-only audio: If you go to audio settings on windows, you can turn mono audio on (and also turn your volume up a lot).
Another fine presentation by Adam, of well composed insights to help share the beauty and truth of Music. This material should be of value and interest to poets, dancers, actors and even to visual artists who seek to create patterns that may reach or communicate as directly to human emotions, as music does.
A lot of wisdom, experience and mastery of Music concepts and practice, condensed to only about 1/4 hour.
I love Adam. He is the king of youtube if the people in the audience didn't know.
My left ear really enjoyed Adam Neely's bass lesson.
He tried so hard to make them laugh
I found this as hilarious as it was instructional, as I'm used to Adam's humor, but the people seemed ice cold
Ilian Petit crowd mics are lost in the right channel 😢
A bit late, but the audio we hear is from his mic, which is an extremely directional mic often used on stages for that exact reason, the volume of crowds, the mics are designed to be very sensitive to a small area and dropoff in response very fast to anything off-axis. Because of this we don't hear the crowds much, however there are parts where you can hear them quietly, there was definitely a lot of clapping, but also the people at TED talks tend to be respectful and not make tons of noise all the time and delay the presentation.
Adam Neely is a genius change my mind!!!!
I already knew what he were about to say because I follow his channel a lot, and I understand perfectly every topic he talked about.
Someone said that if you can't explain something you don't know it well enough, and I think that being clear and able to express something is really one the few things that matter a lot in life,
and it's been so great that Adam made some clarity, and even explained - clarity.
There are few people on earth good as him I guess.
hey Adam Neely.
in regards to 13:30.
I personally believe that in regards to language person one is speaking in regards to the filtration of how he experienced it and his vocabulary to then reach person two and be filtered through their visual and auditory perception then in relation to their experiences through the process is most likely reenacted in their mind to understand the portrayed message. And then with music is giving off a mathematically sound vibration which is happening and being expressed an experience in the present moment by person 1 and experienced by person 2 aswell. seems as if you were to put it into an equation the perception of music has less factors/filters to work through.
hes so good he makes me wanna cry
There was literally no facial reaction on his face after playing the lick, but when 1 minute later he ended up on the same frets of the bass as when playing the lick, you can almost see him smile. :D
After 13:09 my inner voice just screams: PLAY THE GODDAMN LAST NOTE GODDAMMIT... NO YOU DON'T DARE TO PUT THAT BASS AWAY NOW!!
Hey.... ya boi made it to the Big Time!
..... IF ONLY I COULD HEAR IT!!!!!
Literally screamed when I saw this video "Adam was on Ted Talk?!!" 😍😍
Yeeeeah Adam got his own Ted talk!!
That is also why music and taste in music is so subjective, easy categories like realism(that can be applied to visual art which is more often than not representative of real life objects) is thrown out the window and all that matters is that clarity of emotion that it brings upon yourself, and that will change drastically and seemingly randomly from one another.
The audio is not bad! just activate mono mode on you device and turn up the volume. its still super clear without any noise! It sounds very good.
I expected him to close by trying to musically express the feeling he had back then when he was 14 and witnessed the jazz duo.
i really needed this now, this really helped some things click for me
Good to see you here Adam
Victor wooten did a similar talk about music as language. Both awesome!
That was really good! I can’t believe Adam said he wouldn’t recommend it.
Adam has come a long way
"what do you think I'm thinking about..." THE LICK! You were thinking of playing the lick, you can't deny this, Adam.
You can tell he's a jazz musician because when was switching the chords he played a 1-2-5
Adam Johnson 1-2-5 is the greatest musical tension and resolve there is.
C-Dm7-G7, nothing soothes me more than that smooth resolve, mmm...
erpaloinen lol
You mean a 2 5 1 right...
*I've been waiting for this moment*
No joke, I thought my headphones were broken so I took it apart and brought out my soldering gun but the next video played and I realized it was fine. Pls fix
dude quit flexin your soldering gun
Actually it was a soldering iron, haha
im poor
I fixed it and re-uploaded it
@@INADRM Thank you so much!
Can someone normalize this video and upload it again at an audible level?
language and music mix very well
repeating the word hippopottamus is amazing for keeping track in 5/4 beats :D
Wow. I never knew Adam had his own Ted Talk
Super low audio; super glad I usually have mono audio cause apparently its only one channel. Great talk but but the audio guys really messed this one up lol.
I love how you can’t even say the word “lick” while holding a bass, without playing it. Absolutely genius, man; genius. 8:25
Great work Adam! Thanks.
For everybody saying the audio is terrible, just switch to mono audio, it’s infinitely better
8:27 ohhhhh he did it
somebody rip this and boost the audio, even cheaply done, it would be better than this lol!
Randy Fulgham if you’re wondering still, someone further up the comments did it
Hey could you please make the audio a little quieter? It really hurts my ears
If you’re on iOS, go to general -> accessibility and put the sound in mono. Ur welcome.
Oskar Holm Omg you’re a hero
Simple effective solution. Thank you.
Music is a profound concept into the point or meaning of exsistance. The universe is vibration. Are bodies are The instruments that create the beat of the heart with the flow of the blood.
1:56 question and answer time in adam’s ted talk...ya
Awesome Ted talk
I enjoyed that, thanks Adam!
I liked it! Well thought out. Nice job man.
Adam, a long as I've been watching your stuff I've had a much better time playing.
@TedXTalks you could really do better with the audio. Why not repair this? Adam Neely is worth listening to. This is a great talk. It is about the ability and effect of hearing...Decent sound quality playback for the clip would be worth the edit time and even uploading again.
I was on my way to get new headphones when I realized the video audio here is what's broken, I'm so sorry Adam, can't believe they've done this.
I am _sooo_ gonna transcribe this in a Soundslice! :D
extemporaneous, new vocab addition, win!
Yo what? Adam Neely did a Ted Talk? Since when?? Why am I only seeing this now?
same lmao
Ted talk please fix audio issue. Playing on phone speaker is fine but over ear phones won't come out. It's a basic audio engineering mishap. It's ironic to the topic of this talk.
I fixed it and uploaded it
What did you guys think of the actual presentation (other than the shotty audio)?
I feel that it was easily relatable, and it expressed clearly, something any musician would already understand, but I’d be interested to see if a non-musician would find it more or less insightful.
Same here, as a musician I loved it and felt that Adam expressed all the things I feel about music suuuuupper well, he always does. I just wonder how people less familiar with music theory and how it feels to play an instrument feels about this.
Great talk! I think that both language and music are symbolic systems, and so they stand in the same relationship to reality. But they are not the same, and music is not language proper. In language you may express statements about the world that may be true or false. In music you may express, well, something else. Feelings, perhaps, or maybe *yourself*. In both cases, music and language, we have symbolic representations, but of different varieties. They seem kind of tricky to outright conflate, I think. And then how about visual art, dance and all the rest of the arts, are they all language too? They are all symbolic and can all be used for expression, but at the same time they are all quite different, from each other and from language, and need to be understood on their own terms.
I studied philosophy a long time ago and I also play music (!BASS!), and have tried to think about these things from time to time. Most of what I found most useful in aestethics I got from Nelson Goodmans Languages of Art, I guess that is where my view on music and the arts are coming from. It is a great book, I guess maybe you have read it? Anyway, thank you for an interesting and thought provoking talk!
Great TED Talk. Now only if the audio was synced to the video and in both ears
FINALLY TEDx!!!!!!!!!
there is no Adam Neely video without the lick :D half way through and still waiting for smash mouth :P
At 8:27 when all @adamneely fans know what he pulled😂
When did I miss this!?
The audio bloody scared me. I thought my headphones were dying
this was a really good ted talk despite the horrible sound output
This dude is way too smart to give a ted talk
Can ted talks reupload this video but with a “the lick” counter?
Adam, you mention words and spoken language not being able to produce the anxiety or emotion that you demonstrate with the delayed resolution of "Shave and a haricut," but what about when words are drawn out or truncated to be completed later. A good pop culture reference for this would be the scene in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" when Frank-N-Furter delivers the line, " I see you shiver with antici........ PATION!". The end of anticipation is delayed in a way similar to you extending the resolution and evokes a similar feeling of anxiety and anticipation.
Neither your example nor mine are ones regularly used. However there are ways for language to be used to evoke emotion just as you suggest music does. Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech does this as do many poems. Perhaps emotion is more easily brought out via music, but I think it a mistake to say language can't.
13:26 Repetition Legitimizes
Repetition Legitimizes
I'm watching repeatedly, because repetition legitimizes
Spent me whole morning bummed out thinking my right headphone had broken.
Love this talk but kinda makes it even harder to write lyrics for my stuff. Haha
I set my volume to 100% to properly hear this but then I got afraid that there would be a loud audio glitch somewhere when somebody actually decides to fix the sound midway through. Great talk nonetheless.
I love how this comment section is filled with people who know this guy saying "HE PLAYED THE LICK!!!"
I feel like Adam is right over my left shoulder whispering a ted talk
You go man! Nicely brought your point across! You're on the right track.
Hijackaudio + duplicate left channel + 4 x volume overdrive + 500Hz EQ cranked up this was very nice. With less audio processing unlistenable.
Was the audio this bad in person? 😅 because I feel like Ode to Tedx would sound WAYY better with proper audio 😂
I had to buy new earphones to listen to this Tedtalk about music...
I like that shave and a haircut reference, it's straight out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
VSauce4 gave a really good TedTalk!
Pls upload this again with higer volume
Adam Neely! what on earth