From Beethoven to Kinect, linking music to our bodies

Name: From Beethoven to Kinect, linking music to our bodies
Uploaded: 2017-12-01T17:53:53Z
Duration: 7 min 28 s
Description: Creative technologist Peter Kirn contemplates the intimate connection between the corporeal and emotional worlds through music. He discusses the physical impact of Beethoven's symphonies, concluding with a live demonstration of an instrument that registers the body's response and generates sound based solely on his physical movements.

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Peter Kirn |

TED@BCG Berlin

• October 2014

Creative technologist Peter Kirn contemplates the intimate connection between the corporeal and emotional worlds through music. He discusses the physical impact of Beethoven's symphonies, concluding with a live demonstration of an instrument that registers the body's response and generates sound based solely on his physical movements.