The Physics of Music | Nitin Sawhney & Nicki Wells | TEDxGateway

Nitin Sawhney performs and talks about the connections between art and science and mathematics.
A world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, orchestral composer and cultural pioneer.
Sawhney’s output as a musician is highly prolific. He is one of the most distinctive and versatile musical voices around today.He has scored for and performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, and collaborated with and written for the likes of Paul McCartney, Sting, The London Symphony Orchestra, A.R. Rahman, Brian Eno, Sinead O’Connor, Anoushka Shankar, Jeff Beck, Shakira, Will Young, Joss Stone, Taio Cruz, Ellie Goulding, amongst many others. Sawhney has become a latter-day Renaissance man in the worlds of music, film ,videogames ,dance and theatre.
Nicki Wells is an entirely new phenomenon. She is the first truly global singer.
Blessed with an unparalleled memory for melody and vocal technique from virtually any culture, Nicki is able to easily leap from folk, French trip-hop, deep gospel, jazz or choral vocals to Indian classical or Arabic inflections as if all were emanating directly from her soul.
Her debut album, produced by Nitin Sawhney, has already won her enthusiastic attention from the likes of Chris Martin and Joss Stone, even before completion, and she is on the verge of signing a lucrative deal with publishers Reservoir/ Reverb.
Having performed with Sawhney as a lead vocalist everywhere from major international festivals to sold out venues, such as London’s Royal Albert Hall to Sydney Opera House, she has enthralled countless astonished music lovers across the globe.
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[@assiduous2011]

Arts and Sciences can blend in perfect harmony.

[@narennagarur156]

Nitin- Great infotaining video. However, please correct your statement about Ramanujan, he was a Tamil Brahmin from Southern India. No connection between him and Bengali Renaissance.

[@mubenalim3076]

indian classical music is number one music in the world. no doubt

[@shahindranmoonieya4742]

Beyond beyond

[@Qandeel]

Thanks for the times table trick!

[@gitanjalitalukdar6712]

So brilliant

[@daddypeet257]

Nice to know more about you, so talented

[@mubenalim3076]

hehehe first time i realized the relation between mathematics and music. thanks nitin sir

[@mubenalim3076]

amazing person and artist love from me

[@arbindapandey1711]

Look at the subtitles when they did the beat.

[@TheEulerID]

That method of multiplying numbers together in your head seems a bit complicated to me. If I multiply 22 x 23 in my head it's just 460 + 46 = 506; just like on paper. Once the product goes into 4 digits it become trickier simply because the mind has trouble holding the interim results, but it works fine up to 31 x 31. It's going to be the same issue with his method.
As far as primary school kids repeating the times table goes, then the reason is just to make it automatic without having to think about everyday small calculations. It's the mental version of muscle memory.

[@nicholasmartin297]

I just use a calculator. Job done.

[@lories03]

The guitar bit reminds me of ELP music.

[@MarcoAlbuquerquemarcojca]

Saw them yesterday

[@fobycoconut98]

WTF?! Rama Juan was part of the Bengali renaissance? When did that happen? He’s been death a while too.

[@sundaramkumar4041]

Is there an album of Nitin and Nicky?

[@Booboooru]

Yes

[@mubenalim3076]

love from pakistan

[@Michaelaidinboer]

why cant i find this song on spotify?!

[@randomjasmicisrandom]

It is the last song on the album Displacing the Priest.

[@himanshuvyas3706]

Beautiful....🙌but he kinda sounds like the f1 driver George Russel...

[@AnaDiasTrad]

Nitin.... you lost me completely...