ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Thomas Dolby - Electronic music pioneer
Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his album, "A Map of the Floating City."

Why you should listen

Perhaps best known for blinding us with science, Thomas Dolby has always blurred the lines between composition and invention. As a London teenager, Tom Robertson was fascinated with the convergence of music and technology. His experiments with an assortment of keyboards, synthesizers and cassette players led his friends to dub him “Dolby.” That same fascination later drove him to become an electronic musician and multimedia artist whose groundbreaking work fused music with computer technology and video. Two decades, several film scores, five Grammy nominations and countless live-layered sound loops later, it's clear Dolby's innovations have changed the sound of popular music.

In the 1990s, Dolby re-created himself as a digital-musical entrepreneur, founding Beatnik, which developed the polyphonic ringtone software used in more than half a billion cell phones. From 2001 to 2012, Dolby served as TED's Music Director, programming great music for the TED stage, assembling a wide variety of house bands and collaborations to play between speakers. At TED2010, backed by the string quarter Ethel, he premiered the song "Love Is a Loaded Pistol," from his sweeping, A Map of the Floating City. The album marked his return to recording and touring after a 15-year hiatus, and used seriously retro technology -- '40s-era oscilloscopes and Royal Navy field-test equipment -- to control modern synthesizers, in shows at once nostalgic and cutting edge.

In 2014, Dolby took on a new name: professor. He was named the Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, teaching the course "Sound on Film."

More profile about the speaker
Thomas Dolby | Speaker | TED.com
Ethel - String quartet
Ethel is, perhaps, the first 21st-century realization of the classical string quartet.

Why you should listen

An all-star foursome, Ethel includes performers Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), and Mary Rowell (violin), a mixed bag of players from classical, rock and downtown new-music circles. The powerhouse ensemble takes an unconventional approach to performance.

Says the Wall Street Journal, "Ethel ... created a world in which classical music had never grown distant, a world in which it was as fresh and direct as crowds dancing in the street."

(photo by Steve J. Sherman)

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Ethel | Speaker | TED.com
TED2010

Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

Thomas Dolby:"Love Is a Loaded Pistol" (Aşk Dolu Bir Tabancadır)

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Yenilikçi müzisyen Thomas Dolby eşsiz biçimde tasarlanmış olan, restore edilmişbir yatta uzun zamandan beri çıkardığı ilk albüm için çalışmalar yapıyor. Burada "about one night with a legend" albümünü andıran muhteşem bir şarkının ilk dinletisini yapıyor. Thomas Dolby modern String Quartet grubunun üyelerinden Ethel tarafından destekleniyor...
- Electronic music pioneer
Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his album, "A Map of the Floating City." Full bio - String quartet
Ethel is, perhaps, the first 21st-century realization of the classical string quartet. Full bio

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I've been playingoynama TEDTED for nearlyneredeyse a decadeonyıl,
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Yıllardır TED için çalıyorum,
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and I've very rarelynadiren playedOyunun
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fakat kendi yeni şarkılarımı
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any newyeni songsşarkılar of my ownkendi.
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çok nadiren çaldım.
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And that was largelybüyük oranda because there weren'tdeğildi any.
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Büyük ihtimalle hiç yeni şarkım olmadığındandır.
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(LaughterKahkaha)
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(Gülüşmeler)
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So I've been busymeşgul with a coupleçift of projectsprojeler,
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and one of them was this:
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projelerimden biri buydu,
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The NutmegKüçük Hindistan cevizi.
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Nutmeg(Hindistancevizi),
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A 1930s ship'sGeminin lifeboatfilika,
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1930'lardan bir geminin filikası.
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whichhangi I've been restoringgeri yükleme in the gardenBahçe
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Filikayı İngiltere'deki evimin bahçesinde
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of my beachplaj houseev in Englandİngiltere.
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restore ediyordum.
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And, so now,
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Ve bundan böyle,
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when the polarkutup icebuz capskapaklar melteritmek,
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kutuplardaki buzullar eridiğinde,
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my recordingkayıt studiostüdyo will riseyükselmek up like an arkArk,
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kayıt stüdyom Nuh'un Gemisi gibi yükselecek,
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and I'll floatkayan nokta off into the drownedboğuldu worldDünya
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ve ben J.G. Ballard'ın masal kahramanı gibi
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like a characterkarakter from a J.G. BallardBallard novelyeni.
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sular altında kalan dünyanın üstünde süzüleceğim.
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DuringSırasında the day,
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Günışığında,
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the NutmegKüçük Hindistan cevizi collectstoplar energyenerji
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Nutmeg kaptan köşkünün çatısındaki
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from solargüneş panelspaneller on the roofçatı of the wheelhouseKaptan köşkü,
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and from a 450 wattWatt turbinetürbin
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up the mastmast.
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enerji depolar.
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So that when it getsalır darkkaranlık,
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Ve karanlık bastığında,
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I've got plentybol of powergüç.
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Nutmeg'i bir denizfeneri gibi aydınlatmak için,
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And I can lightışık up the NutmegKüçük Hindistan cevizi like a beaconBeacon.
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bool bol enerjim olur.
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And so I go in there untila kadar the earlyerken hourssaatler of the morningsabah,
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Günün erken saatlerine kadar oraya girip,
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and I work on newyeni songsşarkılar.
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yeni şarkılar üzerinde çalışırım.
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I'd like to playoyun to you guys,
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Eğer ilk dinleyicileri olmayı isterseniz,
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if you're willingistekli to be the first audienceseyirci to hearduymak it.
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sizlere çalmak istiyorum.
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(ApplauseAlkış)
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It's about BillieBillie HolidayTatil.
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Şarkı Billie Holiday hakkında.
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And it appearsbelirir that,
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Görünen o ki,
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some night in 1947
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1947'de bir gece,
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she left her physicalfiziksel spaceuzay
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bedenini terk edip,
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and was missingeksik all night,
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bütün gece kayıplara karışmış,
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untila kadar she reappearedtekrar ortaya çıktı in the morningsabah.
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ta ki gündüz yeniden görünene kadar.
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But I know where she was.
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Fakat ben onun nerde olduğunu biliyorum.
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She was with me on my lifeboatfilika.
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Benimle birlikte filikamdaydı.
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And she was hotSıcak.
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Ve çok güzeldi.
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(MusicMüzik)
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BillieBillie creptsüzüldü softlyusulca
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♫Billie açık kollarıma doğru ♫
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♫ into my wakinguyanma armssilâh
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♫yavaşça yaklaştı♫
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warmIlık, hafif sıcak like a sipSIP of sourekşi mashMash
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♫sıcak bir yudum viski gibi♫
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StrangeGarip fruitmeyve for ♫
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♫Tuhaf, bereketli ♫
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♫ a sweettatlı hunkiri parça of trashçöp
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♫tatlı bir parça çöp♫
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PanicPanik at the stageevre doorkapı
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♫Carnegie Salonu'nun♫
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♫ of CarnegieCarnegie HallHall
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♫sahne kapısında telaş♫
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♫ "FamousÜnlü JazzCaz SingerŞarkıcı GoneGitti AWOLASKER KAÇAĞI" ♫
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♫Ünlü caz sanatçısı kaçak♫
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MustGerekir have left the buildingbina
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♫Beden ve ruh♫
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bodyvücut and soulruh
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♫binayı terketmeli♫
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♫ On a creakygıcırtılı
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♫Bu gece♫
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pianopiyano stooltabure tonightBu gece
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♫Eski bir piyano taburesinde♫
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♫ as the moonay is my ♫
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♫çünkü ay benim♫
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♫ only witnesstanık
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♫tek tanığım♫
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♫ She was breathingnefes
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♫O benim kulağımın dibinde♫
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♫ in my earkulak
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nefes alıyordu
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♫ "This time it's love" ♫
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♫Bu sefer bu aşk♫
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♫ But love is a loadedyüklü pistoltabanca
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♫Ama aşk dolu bir tabanca♫
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♫ By daybreakDaybreak she's gonegitmiş
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♫Gün doğumunda o gitmişti♫
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♫ Over the frozendondurulmuş rivernehir, home ♫
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♫Donmuş bir nehrin üstünden,eve♫
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♫ Me and JohnnyJohnny WalkerWalker
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♫Ben ve Johnny Walker♫
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♫ See in the newyeni ageyaş
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♫Yeni çağı görüyoruz♫
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aloneyalnız
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♫yalnızız♫
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StayKonaklama with me ♫
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♫Benimle kal♫
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♫ again tonightBu gece
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♫tekrar bu gece♫
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BillieBillie, time, ♫
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♫Billi, zaman♫
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♫ time is a wilykurnaz tricksterdüzenbaz
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♫zaman kurnaz bir düzenbaz♫
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♫ Still an echoEko
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♫Hala kalbimde♫
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♫ in my heartkalp saysdiyor, ♫
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♫bir yankı deki,♫
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♫ "This time it's love" ♫
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♫Bu sefer bu aşk♫
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Translated by Mesut Aslan
Reviewed by Sancak Gülgen

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Thomas Dolby - Electronic music pioneer
Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his album, "A Map of the Floating City."

Why you should listen

Perhaps best known for blinding us with science, Thomas Dolby has always blurred the lines between composition and invention. As a London teenager, Tom Robertson was fascinated with the convergence of music and technology. His experiments with an assortment of keyboards, synthesizers and cassette players led his friends to dub him “Dolby.” That same fascination later drove him to become an electronic musician and multimedia artist whose groundbreaking work fused music with computer technology and video. Two decades, several film scores, five Grammy nominations and countless live-layered sound loops later, it's clear Dolby's innovations have changed the sound of popular music.

In the 1990s, Dolby re-created himself as a digital-musical entrepreneur, founding Beatnik, which developed the polyphonic ringtone software used in more than half a billion cell phones. From 2001 to 2012, Dolby served as TED's Music Director, programming great music for the TED stage, assembling a wide variety of house bands and collaborations to play between speakers. At TED2010, backed by the string quarter Ethel, he premiered the song "Love Is a Loaded Pistol," from his sweeping, A Map of the Floating City. The album marked his return to recording and touring after a 15-year hiatus, and used seriously retro technology -- '40s-era oscilloscopes and Royal Navy field-test equipment -- to control modern synthesizers, in shows at once nostalgic and cutting edge.

In 2014, Dolby took on a new name: professor. He was named the Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, teaching the course "Sound on Film."

More profile about the speaker
Thomas Dolby | Speaker | TED.com
Ethel - String quartet
Ethel is, perhaps, the first 21st-century realization of the classical string quartet.

Why you should listen

An all-star foursome, Ethel includes performers Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), and Mary Rowell (violin), a mixed bag of players from classical, rock and downtown new-music circles. The powerhouse ensemble takes an unconventional approach to performance.

Says the Wall Street Journal, "Ethel ... created a world in which classical music had never grown distant, a world in which it was as fresh and direct as crowds dancing in the street."

(photo by Steve J. Sherman)

More profile about the speaker
Ethel | Speaker | TED.com