How the Patterns in Nature Echo into Music | Andy Thorn | TEDxBreckenridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ย. 2023
- The patterns inherent in nature are often the same patterns behind good music. When we lose our connection to the natural world, we lose access to the rhythms and patterns we need to create melodies and songs that resonate with others. Artists are known for breaking rules, but we can’t just produce noise. We need structure. If we discover how critical these patterns are-how they satisfy our brains and help us connect with others-we might find another reason to protect them. Andy Thorn is a banjo player who’s been touring for over a decade with the jam band Leftover Salmon. He’s also a songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dad. He never expected to go viral. But during the pandemic, he was in his backyard, playing banjo tunes for a wild fox, when his wife caught the whole thing on video. The video made headlines around the world. It was covered on the Kelly Clarkson Show, NPR’s Political Gabfest and more. A New York Times writer called it “a moment plucked from Aesop.” Since then, Andy has continued touring, recording music, and parenting, while enjoying being known as “that fox guy.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Thanks for sharing your thoughtful insights! One more way that we can see the immense value of nature and our deep need to experience the natural world! From the standpoint of our busy societies, nature is simple, and yet simultaneously bigger than us and beyond our understanding if we actually take time to quiet our minds and make space to take it in!
Great talk Andy!
You’re blazing new frontiers
Andy, I've been watching and sharing your videos with the foxes for a few years now and I've noticed that they always make me feel calm, happy, and balanced. Maybe it's the patterns in nature and in your music that have such a positive effect on me. It all makes sense! I agree that we humans need more art and more time spent in nature to keep us physically and mentally balanced. And I appreciate what you said about our responsibility for taking care of nature and our planet! Thank you again for creating your beautiful banjo music in the mountains!
Time well spent my friend ❤ loved the deep dive into
the patterns in life, nature & music, lets live our life in circular evolving patterns... 🙏
Thanks Andy! As always, you are blazing new frontiers🤩
Wonderful 15 minutes of my time. Very thoughtful. Your insta stories bring me peace every sunrise jam you do. Meditative moments. 🙏🏼 you rip on that thing too !
Thanks Andy, you really brightened my day. Wise words.
Beautifully said, Andy! ❤
Heck yeahhhh Andy!
Well done! Loved this
Andy ❤ ty for this beautiful talk ...music is the circle of life! And spot on with "capitalism" straight lines...so very true.
Nicely done Andy!
I've seen your video here on TH-cam dozens of times (and probably will dozens more!), but I don't think i'll see it the same way again. Just a beautiful talk and captured the essence of why we are all so drawn to nature. Thank you!
Spot on 👏🏻✨👏🏻
Our cat likes to look at the video of a man playing a banjo with a fox running around him.