How to truly listen | Evelyn Glennie 

I am in 9th standard there's a chapter about her in our book ..you know watching her performing is more wonderful than reading about her 🙀she is awesome

anyone after chapter in beehive book class 9. such a true inspiration 🙌🙌

Iam studying in 9th standard.. We have chapter about Evelyn Glennie... I was so surprised... She is a inspiration for all the childrens ❤️❤️

I learned that there are three sounds. The one you want to make, the one you actually make and the sound every body else hears. Thanks.

I am a 9th grade student at Chennai,India and I'm just amazed to see how effortlessly she is speaking and playing the instruments too. Big hats off to you ma'am 🙏🙏🙏

"More dynamic with less effort" This idea has actually really helped me outside music. If something seems difficult or uncomfortable, it could just be you're nervous. Letting yourself relax is sometimes more effective than trying harder.

I love her warm Scottish accent, the way she says "airrth" for earth.

What we hear she feels - far more deeply than any of us do . That's why she expresses music so beautifully

As a musician who is losing his hearing, this woman is an amazing inspiration.

"How about that, can any of you hear that? Well, of course not, I'm not even touching it!" I was literally holding my breath trying to pick up the faintest hint of a sound. XD

2:47 - Pezzo da Concerto No. 1 by Nebojša Jovan Živković 7:11 - Etude in C Major Op. 6, No. 10 by Clair Omar Musser 13:29 - A Little Prayer by Evelyn Glennie 27:29 - Improvisation on “Michi” by Keiko Abe (Improvisation: Evelyn Glennie) Note: “Michi”, a piece for marimba by Keiko Abe, has sections that are allowed to be improvised. EG usually plays the work with two improvised sections; here she played the latter one.

I was lucky enough to have a one to one lesson with Evelyn when I was in school over 25 years ago, she remains one of the most inspirational people I have ever met! Incredible talent and a really lovely person.

I was about to watch the news and get angry then I stumble upon this incredible human being. For 34:06 minutes she made me forget the ugliness of the world and now I’m back, its not so ugly anymore.

You know what? I really don't care that no one seems to be watching this video anymore. That's neither here nor there. I absolutely love this woman... her interpretations of music and sound, her incredible skills and musical gifts... her voice, her beautiful way of speaking, the sounds of her words... the way she rolls the Rs... and most of all, her knowledge and love of music. I was going to fast forward to the final song she played. And for a 3rd time I found myself captivated with her presentation in this video.. captivated by her beauty and knowledge about rhythm and knowledge about sound... and most of all, her love of music. I knew that kind of love for music before and had it at one time in my life. I get brief glimpses and experience it again ever so briefly whenever I watch this gorgeous presentation. Thank you Ms Dame Evelyn Glennie, for reminding me about what music really is...

Watching this just melted everything I thought I knew about music. What a remarkable human being.

After reading her story in my reader book... I could not stop myself to do some research abt her and here this video grabbed my attention. Really now watching her live frm the story book is giving me a great comfort. Now I just want her documentary film to watch.

"allow your body to be a resonating chamber . . ." I'm so happy to have found this beautiful TED talk!

Eve is a family member of mine and she taught me how to feel sound through vibration You notice she wears no shoes, too many that is visual to her it’s something entirely different Never judge a book by its cover has nothing visual about that comment unless your rather narrow minded or rather opinionated Thank Eve, love you, Geoff

" My aim is to teach the world how to listen" this is really inspiring... thank you for let me know about her in English textbooks

"Stop the judgement". That's really it. Listen like you have nothing to say, simply receive.

has anyone else who watches this video noticed how she pulls overtone notes out of the different keys? It's remarkable... How she can make the keys play different overtone notes. I've seen some really good marimba players, but have never seen any of them do what she can do with that instrument. Her deafness is a definite asset because she is not hampered the same way that hearing people are. She is free to explore and experiment with different percussion instruments. She is able to make an incredible variety of different sounds from the instruments she plays, like the snare drum in this video. Most players just bang away at a snare drum, bringing monotone sounds either with the snare engaged or off. When she was playing the snare drum with the snare off, the amount of different note sounds she was able to create is astounding. I would stack every single percussionist against her any-day of the week, and she would beat them all hands down, and she probably wouldn't even break a sweat... She is the absolute best I've ever seen... And, she has made the Marimba my absolute favorite instrument. The piano is now my second favorite instrument, second only to the marimba.

I've had the pleasure of playing solo and in ensemble for her in my teens, she is awesome in person. Absolute ledge!!

Even her speech alone, is an amazing achievement

This lecture is a simple miracle. It is a different world depending on how we learn to listen. "My real aim is to teach the world to listen." Glennie is a miracle, and absolutely human. Love this video! It may be helpful to know that professional concert percussionist Glennie is profoundly deaf.

Try listening! She is one of the worlds greatest Percussionists,and Motivational speakers! With her intellect,there is no blabbering! Much to be learned here,for those so inclined!

This is an incredible talk. The embodiment of music is something that we each do almost every day. It's why we tap our feet, drum our fingers, and dance. Music has an enormous influence on our whole body, it can give us goosebumps - an evolutionary relic linked with adrenaline and our 'fight or flight' response to stimuli - it can change our heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. We feel music with our whole bodies and it often happens without us even noticing.

I am in 9th grade and we have a chapter about Evelyn Glennie and her story is an amazing inspiration to us children

Evelyn Glennie is definitely one of the best percussionists ever and one of my role models in music and life

The incredible intelligence of this woman cannot be overstated. Her musical gift is rare and incomparable. I love the Marimba. It is one of my most favorite instruments. Yet I have never heard anyone play like her and pull the undertones and overtones from the Marimba Keys the way that she does... her precise control, her incredibly diverse touch and technique of playing the percussion instruments she plays. I've never heard such a rich and diverse performance as this piece of music that she chose to play to close her presentation. Everything that Ms Dame Evelyn Glennie spoke about made perfect sense to me. There was a time in my life when I heard exactly the way she described. As a young man, everything that I heard around me was music, and I mean everything. The sounds of people walking through the streets, the sounds of cars as they moved about on the roads, the sounds of the engines, the sounds of the car as the engine noise emanated from the vehicles, to the sounds of the tires rolling over the pavement asphalt. The sounds that people made, from the soft "scritchy" noises when scratching their heads, or chin... the noises they made just walking, the sounds of their feet impacting on the sidewalks, or walking on a sandy beach, or walking on gravel. The sounds of their voices resonating through the air as they spoke or even... sang. The way the sounds changed as they spoke words, the sounds of their voice exiting their mouths... the way the sounds echoed and resonated in their mouths until it left their mouth... the sounds of their tongue, lips and teeth clicking and popping as they spoke. I heard these things and more and I really listened and heard, because to me it was all music. Everything around me was music, the music of the world, and the music of life. I had forgotten about that kind of listening and that kind of hearing until I saw this video. She gave it back to me, if only for the briefest of time as I watched, heard and thoroughly enjoyed this video. Moreover, her presentation itself... was a musical performance... the way she spoke, the way she carried herself, the sounds of her clothing her footsteps as she walked around the stage... the wonderful and beautiful, musical accent. A gorgeous blend of her Scottish Accent, beautifully blended with her English Accent, both melded together. How she enunciated her words as she spoke, the sounds of her mouth, teeth and tongue clicking, hissing, smacking and popping... and the way she rolled her Rs... beautiful speaking that became so rich with musical sounds as she related her in-depth experience and her vast knowledge about music. I will refer to this video often just to hear her speak, and of course, to enjoy her gorgeous performances. It is all music. Thank you so very much Dame Evelyn Glennie, for reminding me and giving me back this gift of truly listening, if only for this briefest time. I am 64 years old and my hearing is bad and only getting worse. My hearing world is shrouded with a constant and loud crescendo of a high pitched squeal stemming from acute tinnitus... ringing in both ears. I can't hear the rich and beautiful sounds I knew and loved as a young man any longer... but thanks to her I was reminded and can remember how rich my life was being able to hear and to listen as she described so beautifully... it is the truest essence of music.

I didn't realize she was deaf the whole time till i looked at comments

19:00 "If we see someone in a wheelchair we assume they cannot walk. It may be they can walk three, four, five steps. That - to them - means they can walk. In a year's time it could be two extra steps..."

Am watching this after reading the chapter \The sound of music/and after watching this I just want to tell a single thing that this is epic.........no words for your hard works..........a box of love from a girl of India❤

As someone who is deaf in one ear, and wear a hearing aid in the other, this is profound for me. This lady is a tremendous blessing.

I love this Ted Talk. There aren't so many people outside of musicians that really UNDERSTAND the nature of how people experience sound and vibration

What a lovely lady. She refused to accept "no" for an answer and opened the doors for many future applicants.

She might be deaf, but she can definitely hear better than I can.

Felt really down before clicking on this video and now I feel... pure joy.

Wow, I started watching/ listening to this with no idea this lady is deaf! I couldn't believe my ears when she uttered the words " deaf musician". Her pronunciation, albeit with a Scottish accent, is precise and completely without the telltale signs that most deaf individuals demonstrate. TRULY ASTOUNDING.

The same principles explained apply to verbal communication. If you want to have a richier communicational events, stop thinking only in terms of words. Lets think in terms of rithm, intensity, silence, speed etc. The impact we will have in our audience will improve exponetially.

That moment that you realize that she is deaf... She knows how to motivate people in the right way, not by saying look at me, I am deaf and I still can do it... But more like Look at me, I may be deaf, but so what, that gave me other possibilities that you guys don't have - but I am willing to share those with you.

Just completed the chp now I'm here "Such a inspiration she is"💗

evelyn is one beautiful soul. i'll never forget this lesson

this lady is so amazing and special and her achievement is just outstanding.

Scrolling through some old videos in my favorites and yet again I find myself deeply moved by this talk. Absolutely fantastic!

I even have a whole chapter on Evelyn Glennie's life in my English lesson(sound of music),to depict her life and the adversities she faced💜she's simply mind blowing ...the way she hears to music through her body and she got so professional at it even being deaf! Music resonates in her life 🎵She is indeed the most inspiring musician of all times. 🥰have deep respect to this dame from the depth of my heart❤ We got to learn a lot from her story...never give up on your passion and what u love to do..just the way she loved music:)

As s side bar, when she demonstrated what being a *technician* was like I was reminded on the monotonous droning rhythm of John Fogerty's "Born on the Bayou."

She is one of the most thoroughly communicative and articulate speakers I've ever heard. Brilliant👍

Evelyn is a trailblazer. So touched!!

In my band class at school, our teacher/conductor showed us this video without saying anything about it beforehand. At 7:53 he paused the video to tell us all out of nowhere that she was deaf, and everyone in the room was just utterly blown away.

When she asked the audience to emulate thunder with clapping, it actually sounded like heavy rain

Genius! Best TED talk ever in my opinion... I really wish I stumbled across this much much sooner. But either way, as a musician at heart, and a multi-instrumentalist, I'm so glad I did. Gotta love Evelyn Glennie!

Minute 13:25: This is so extraordinary and beautiful. This reminds me the first deaf person who showed me how she listens to music and revealed me a whole new world and a completly new approach to music.

almost 7 years old and this remains one of my very favorite Ted Talks

after reading the comment from 4 years ago (2019) not knowing she is deaf. I'm Speechless

That last piece was just amazing. Bliss. I have never hard xilophone or glochin spieel in such an amazing way. This piece was really special. A totally fresh sound from these instruments I haven't heard. Wow.

I am in 9th standard there's a chapter about her in our book....you know watching her performing is more wonderful than reading about her. She is awesome 🥰😊🥰😊🥰😊🥰😊🥰😊

A truly amazing woman, I've been following her music for years. Always an inspiration !

She is a gem!!! I truly felt what she was saying!! Love the concept of all of us hearing differently!! It is what makes us who we are!!❤❤

You can practically hear a pin drop in the background. Wow. Stunning.

how is it possible for the perfection of clarity and quality of playing a percussion instrument so precisely, i call sage

I am astounded just watching her demonstrate her hand and finger speed.

This story is so inspirational after seeing this I realised that my mental illness is not only a diseases in world but some persons have more challanges then me I will also try to get the extraordinary thing that God has written in my life Salute to evelyn glennie

@24m snare & hands playing amazing thank you iam so inspired...there are other stridently integrity filled artists today.....pushing society forward

It's a good thing I have fingers. On listening to Ms. Glennie talk and demonstrate, my jaw just hung down, wide open, unable to help make sound. This is one of the top five most enlightening experiences of my 66 years of life. I'm a hobby musician, and I play the mandolin. The concepts she presents are profound for me as a lover of music and sound. I have had deaf friends in my life. The burbling of a stream is one of my favorite sounds as is distant thunder. I never conceived of music and sound in the way she has offered it. More than one light bulb has been switched on! Sometimes in life we meet people who are very, very special. Ms. Glennie is clearly one of those people, a gifted musician, a gifted presenter and a gifted thinker. I was listening to some baroque music, Vivaldi concerti I think, on my walk to a local market 2 days ago. Being a smug baroque music listener and player, for some reason on that walk I wondered if I was really hearing the music properly. Well, today, just now, I guess I have learned that I am not as great a listener as I thought I was! I did not seek out information about listening to music. I stumbled onto it. Lucky, lucky, lucky me! Thank you TEDtalks for this amazing presentation, for introducing me to this wonderful human being, and for teaching me so much in such a short period of time!

Dear Evelyn Glennie, thank you so much with my whole heart. I'm deeply impressed by your TED-talk (much more than a "talk"!). You brought tears to my eyes, several times. Thanks!

... a truly brilliant introspective teacher, and I absolutely love her.

I am hear after reading about Evelyn in my 9th class Beehive book.Its fascinating to watch her perform.She truly is an inspiration ✨

Never knew of this awesome woman until today! Fabulous in a million ways xx I love that final piece she played ... shivers.

I could listen to this brilliant woman all day.

A wonderful musician and a human being.

Now that's a perspective shift of magnitude, by a truly remarkable Perspective Shifting talent.

She's really polite and so cute. I am thankful to knowing about her in my childhood in my english textbook of nine class

Inspiring. And I have heard snow, landing on my jacket, very soft tinkling sound. It was minus 23 Celsius in jämtland, Sweden. I am Australian and from a hot dry part so I had almost no experience of it before and had never imagined such a thing. My hosts explained it was to do with the shape of the crystals. They were flat flakes I only a millimetres or so long. Tiny but numerous.

"If we see someone in a wheel chair we assume they CANNOT walk. Maybe they can walk 3.. 4.. 5.. steps, that to them means they CAN Walk. In a years time it could be 2 extra steps, in another years time 3 extra steps"

She has a very beautiful DVD called "Touch the Sound" 2005. It's actually a documentary but it is a journey through the experience of sound.

such a delight to listen to this woman and to take in what she is passing on to us. a wold of difference between just hearing and actually listening. i thoroughly enjoyed her ear opening knowledge and thank RU-vid for bringing us this video.

Evelyn Glennie A truly magnificent earful in fact 2 earfuls. Thank you TED the ever increasing list of wonderful-teaching leaders to help advance our knowledge. Keep going!

She is something else ♡ A genius in the truest sense of the word I believe ◇

Always been fascinated by her talent. She's a fantastic musician and compelling speaker!

I was not aware she was deaf until 1/2 way through. Beautiful enunciation would never reveal deafness. I once walked through a group of people attending a deaf conference and was noticed all the lovely the eye contact and variety of facial expressions. Someone signed to me and suddenly I felt a profound inability to connect w/ the ease and quickness I had just felt. The was an entire world beyond my world.

wow... I wouldn't even notice that she is deaf if I wasn't told on the description or the video... loved the talk

Wow..I am impressed..I learned so much..I play guitar and trying to sound like rock and roll..but here I learned it s not about playing..its about feeling. When she said feel it in your finger tips, I related very much to that. Because of this I will learn other instruments...just to listen..and experience the beauty of them . Best talk on Ted.

This is such an AWESOME and interesting talk. (I just read the title and didn't even realize she was deaf until 10:39, but only thought that the subject was truly insightful and how she approached listening, interpretation and expression...). I am a musician and deaf in my right ear, as well as having some high frequency hearing loss in my left ear. I can relate to this on that level. I always believed I thought outside the box but she eliminated the box! Truly INCREDIBLE!

Truly wonderful! The words "How to truly listen" caught my eye, I listened and loved every word, but then I was amazed to read that Evelyn Glennie is deaf. Thank you so much for sharing.

The color of music comes from the heart.

it is just so amazing how a deaf person can 1. Speak so good and 2. Be such a great musician.

I Love this woman....she brought tears to my eyes and explained hearing, especially music, in a way I have always felt but could not adequately explain, Other than "Poetry moves the mind, romance moves the heart BUT Music moves the Soul" So Listen !

I've never seen that instrument played so beautifully. Excellent speaker.

Cant believe I watched the whole thing. I usually cant sit through videos longer than 10 minutes, but this was so intriguing.

That's DAME Evelyn Glennie, one of the few instances of the British Honours system actually serving it's purpose..

She is amazing. Loved her playing for 20+ years.

That experience of her playing at the end was sublime.

Such an amazing musician. In a way she's just broken my heart as I've always wanted to be a musician and the way she talks about it makes me realise the difference between me and someone with genuine talent. What an amazing lady, what an amazing attitude.

That was fantastic Evelyn :) You have brought back some very pleasant memories. Thank you for making your great talents and magical positive vibrations available to all of us around the world . It was a very special experience for me .

A remarkable, amazing lady. May you continue to prosper and shine, madame.

This is an old video but very very inspirational. I really enjoyed her perspective and open mindedness. Her detail in word choice in explanation was most excellent. Mind bending!

That 'organ like' thing she played was nice. What an interesting person and what a great musician.

Incredible Dame Evelyn! You’re an inspiration to humanity!!

Simply amazing. I have learned to appreciate the sounds one can produced more from this videos then most. I really want to be a good listener and get deeper in my musical journey .

I would really love to listen to a performance of hers. Only the bit she demonstrates makes me to hear much more from her. It sounds so beautiful , and what she says is just great.