Ideas change everything

From Beethoven to Kinect, linking music to our bodies

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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.

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.

About the speaker

Peter Kirn

Experimental composer

Peter Kirn is an electronic musician and creative technologist. Classically trained as a pianist and composer, he now produces experimental/ambient music and live techno. He is known as a creative tech journalist and editor of Created Digital Music (CDM), which for ten years has been a hub for covering expressive technologies for music and visual performance. He is co-creator of the open source MeeBlip synthesizer hardware.

About TED Institute

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