Rhythm and Shifting Our Perception | David Alderdice

Rhythm and Shifting Our Perception | David Alderdice | TEDxPaonia

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8 жыл бұрын

How can understanding rhythm shift our perceptions of ourselves and the world? In this riveting talk Ethno-musicologist David Alderdice uses a mulltipercussion instrument and engages the audience to demonstrate how poly-rhythms, the simultaneous use of one or two conflicting rhythms, can help us break free from the habit of seeing things from only one angle. Rhythm can be powerful ally in our lives!
www.embodyingrhythm.com/
Video produced by Jay Canode & David Jacobson
Intro animation by Adam Smith
Intro music “So Good To Be True” by Host Bodies / hostbodies
David Alderdice is a father, percussionist, educator, recording artist, performer, enthusiastic rhythmist, and founder of the Embodying Rhythm School of Percussive Arts as well as co‐founder of the North Fork Valley Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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@elliotthayes1644 Жыл бұрын

I do a similar exercise with all my students, and it's always fun to watch them shift their perceptions, sometimes give up, get frustrated, but the reward is to see them achieve both perspectives and forever be changed.

@xarior1633 7 ай бұрын

I prefer to teach my students in a way that when they sit on the drums there's a kind of bubble arround, not be aware of the outside just play work, hard sometimes to step up but finally you learn that every rythm is "playable" but never copy/paste do it your own way. And yes drums as martial arts changes the behaviour but martial arts are violent drums is musical even iif all the parts separatly were invented for war it's now an instrument for peace. What an evolution! And I want to see what it's gonna be in the next centuries but I'll be dead so let's try to put good ideas in the next generation!

@WoRN808 3 жыл бұрын

Marvelous presentation and David Alderdice's instructional videos are awesome too. His intro to CAXIXI is magical! I am just beginning to learn to play percussion at age 58.

@arlingtonguy54 5 жыл бұрын

The first time I went to Cuba to study AfroCuban rhythms they tried to teach me how to play a 12/8 rhythm (short bell) counted in 4. It took me a year or two to be able to do it and get comfortable but it opened up a new understanding of rhythm and access to new African based rhythms. It required thinking in a new way which I hope extends into other areas of my life.

@dharitrimishra6295 2 жыл бұрын

Loved your last “tah kita” exercise!!!

@kikiperry8176 2 жыл бұрын

Making these experiential is so delightful and revealing. I have no problem imitating and repeating the beats when just doing call and response style, as in the beginning. At the end though, while he was calling out the solkattu and changing up the labelling, I really found that turned me into a rhythmless audient! I had to just about ignore him in order to get the beat and style back on track! Undisciplined mind share, I guess. I hope any work I do on frame drums will lay down the drills to open up perspectives of a sound.

@sonja7halcyon 3 жыл бұрын

It’s pretty amazing

@Jazzgriot 2 жыл бұрын

Nice one dude, deep, and practical. I dig it the most.

@udomatthiasdrums5322 2 жыл бұрын

love it!

@jordanjames6851 4 жыл бұрын

Really cool.

@thecorewestern8529 4 жыл бұрын

the beard is epic

@CabelCabelCabel 6 жыл бұрын

It's pretty amazing. Said this guy. About a million times. :D But it really was amazing!!

@thecorewestern8529 4 жыл бұрын

brilliant!!

@MegYork 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@cdelaorden 6 жыл бұрын

Wow one of the best talks I've ever watched. Been doing the lap rhythm and counting myself in 1, 2s and 3s for a while after watching it and feels amazing. :)

@daveking4974 6 жыл бұрын

Just go to Bangalore for a month and study konnakol. I did. You will progress MUCH faster!

@allisontans6343 6 жыл бұрын

Super fun! Thank you, David! :)

@yoverale 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@salaheddinelaroussi 6 жыл бұрын

so true !

@user-hf2bp3qq8w 6 жыл бұрын

This is actually very useful .. Does this guy have a KZfaq channel ?

@ericluque6573 6 жыл бұрын

This guy loves meshuggah

@YuriRadavchuk 6 жыл бұрын

Isn't the indian cyllable system called Konnakol?

@melissajensen4901 7 жыл бұрын

12-based math isn't really 'simple'. It is higher dimensional and has been proposed for hundreds of years as being superior to 10-based math. Maybe someday we will adopt it . . . meanwhile the Duodecimal Society will keep on showing the virtues of 12-based math.

@keonashorter9714 6 жыл бұрын

Africans have understood this for centuries, which is why they were used as a labor force and made America a lot of money. Understanding vibrations, beats, rhythms is the key to getting to production zones.

@gregorybrian 5 жыл бұрын

I went to school with guys like this and although I deeply respect their talent, I find them to be very annoying. I'm a musician as well and I think I figured out why they annoy me. They have such a limited vocabulary when talking about complicated subjects while oozing earthiness that it comes across as fake and two-dimensional. I'm led to ask if these folks actually understand themselves given that they use such a narrow range of words. No nuances. No shades. No hues. Just repetition of new-agey buzzwords. Still though, this is some good content and I appreciate him.

@Trigger_Nash 6 жыл бұрын

It's Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle!... And his looks pretty burnt out.

@danmarion145 5 жыл бұрын

This video sucks. Do you really need a guy who looks like he was kicked out of Starbucks for hanging around too long to tell you what's up

@nukillerfridaymusic911 5 жыл бұрын

he couldn't do a 5 count. Amateur

@daekerconley7599 5 жыл бұрын

hes a profetional drum teacher. lmao your an ameture

@arrystophanes7909 5 жыл бұрын

Put this in the 'How Not To Be A Communist' curriculum

@manmewxlsgb 3 жыл бұрын

I've played drums for 40 years, played percussion in professional orchestras, studied tabla to a high level and Balinese gamelan to a high level (English but lived in Bali the last 25 years). "..a fun way to really get the the visceral sensation of changing my perspection (sic) of our perspectives.. in our body.." TED conference goers.. you should be demanding a refund.

@ascendantindigo271 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Tell Michael I said "What's up"?

@steveboltonPG 2 жыл бұрын

@@ascendantindigo271 John says hi, too!

@ascendantindigo271 2 жыл бұрын

@@steveboltonPG Oh..... I thought you were related to Micheal Bolton...my bad, sorry.

@steveboltonPG 2 жыл бұрын

@@ascendantindigo271 Wait. First you thought I AM the brother of Michael Bolton and now you think I’m NOT? Anyway good luck with the brother guessing!