ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Natalie MacMaster - Fiddler
Natalie MacMaster is a star of Cape Breton fiddling, a Canadian tradition with Scottish roots. Her energetic style and virtuoso talent has brought her star billing on the international folk circuit.

Why you should listen

It's not easy to make traditional Irish-Scottish music sound sexy and yet still seem wholesome. But Natalie MacMaster manages this feat, drawing listeners in with her playful showmanship, and then holding them rapt with astounding technical flourishes.

The niece of renowned Canadian fiddler Buddy MacMaster, she's taken up the mantle as standard-bearer for Cape Breton fiddling, a method of Scottish-style violin-playing that's evolved over the last century on this island neighbor to Nova Scotia. The tradition was on the wane when, in 1972, a CBS documentary provocatively titled The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler jump-started preservation efforts in the fiddling community.

MacMaster's enthusiastic charm and extraordinary skill has landed her star billing on the international folk circuit and multiple Grammy nominations. She's released nine albums, including Yours Truly (2006), Natalie and Buddy MacMaster (2005) and My Roots Are Showing (1998). She's toured with countless performers, including the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has been awarded two Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy).

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Natalie MacMaster | Speaker | TED.com
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
TED2002

Natalie MacMaster: Cape Breton fiddling in reel time

Natalie MacMaster用小提琴演繹舞曲

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小提琴家Natalie MacMaster 和TED音樂總監Thomas Dolby共同演奏Dolby的原創歌曲《藍色是河流》,超脫的二重奏和少許舞步。
- Fiddler
Natalie MacMaster is a star of Cape Breton fiddling, a Canadian tradition with Scottish roots. Her energetic style and virtuoso talent has brought her star billing on the international folk circuit. Full bio - 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

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♫ Like the heather石南屬
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小小的石南花
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♫ on the hillside山坡
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散滿於在坡上
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♫ as they drove開車 us ♫
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隨著處境
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♫ from the Highlands高地
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遠離高原
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♫ Like the ice flow
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像冷冷的冰流
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♫ from the Arctic北極
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來自北極地帶
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♫ where we landed登陸
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我們停留
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♫ in Newfoundland紐芬蘭
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在紐芬蘭
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♫ There's a color顏色
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有一種顏色
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♫ to my sorrow悲哀
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掀起我的哀愁
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♫ There's a name名稱 for ♫
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它的名字
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♫ all this sadness
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叫做藍色憂愁
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♫ Like the ocean海洋
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彷似海洋
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♫ in between之間 us ♫
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把我們隔開
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♫ I am blue藍色
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憂愁的我
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Blue藍色 is a river
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憂愁河流
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Blue藍色 remembered記得
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憂愁揮之不去
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Blue藍色 water
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藍水悠悠
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running賽跑 clear明確
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浮光掠影
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Blue藍色 like a planet行星
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藍得像地球
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♫ to a spaceman太空人
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看在太空人的眼裡
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Blue藍色 river
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藍色的河流
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♫ of my tears眼淚
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流著我的淚
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(Fiddle小提琴 and synthesizer合成)
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♫ So I came來了 here ♫
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就這樣我來了
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♫ to the city
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來到城市
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♫ where the dream夢想 burns燒傷
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夢想化為雲煙
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♫ like a furnace
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像燃燒的火爐
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♫ And I dazzled眼花繚亂
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讓我晃然
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♫ in these dark黑暗 streets街道
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在黑漆漆的街道上
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♫ like a diamond鑽石
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像顆閃亮的鑽石
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♫ in a coalface工作面
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照在一張失落的臉
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♫ Then the cold wind
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而那無情的風
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♫ from the islands島嶼
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從島嶼上
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blew自爆 a storm風暴 cloud
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刮來一陣暴風雲
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across橫過 the new moon月亮
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穿越新月
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♫ Like the gun smoke抽煙
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恰似輕煙
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above以上 the houses房屋
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縈繞在屋頂上
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♫ in my home ♫
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我的家鄉
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Blue藍色 is a river
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憂愁河流
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Blue藍色 remembered記得
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憂愁揮之不去
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Blue藍色 water
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藍水悠悠
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running賽跑 clear明確
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浮光掠影
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Blue藍色 like a planet行星
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藍得像地球
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♫ to a spaceman太空人
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看在太空人的眼裡
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Blue藍色 river
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藍色的河流
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♫ of my tears眼淚
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流著我的淚
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Blue藍色 river
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藍色的河流
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♫ of my tears眼淚
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流著我的淚
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(Fiddle小提琴 and synthesizer合成)
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(Applause掌聲)
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掌聲
Translated by Winnie Chan
Reviewed by Zhu Jie

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Natalie MacMaster - Fiddler
Natalie MacMaster is a star of Cape Breton fiddling, a Canadian tradition with Scottish roots. Her energetic style and virtuoso talent has brought her star billing on the international folk circuit.

Why you should listen

It's not easy to make traditional Irish-Scottish music sound sexy and yet still seem wholesome. But Natalie MacMaster manages this feat, drawing listeners in with her playful showmanship, and then holding them rapt with astounding technical flourishes.

The niece of renowned Canadian fiddler Buddy MacMaster, she's taken up the mantle as standard-bearer for Cape Breton fiddling, a method of Scottish-style violin-playing that's evolved over the last century on this island neighbor to Nova Scotia. The tradition was on the wane when, in 1972, a CBS documentary provocatively titled The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler jump-started preservation efforts in the fiddling community.

MacMaster's enthusiastic charm and extraordinary skill has landed her star billing on the international folk circuit and multiple Grammy nominations. She's released nine albums, including Yours Truly (2006), Natalie and Buddy MacMaster (2005) and My Roots Are Showing (1998). She's toured with countless performers, including the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has been awarded two Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy).

More profile about the speaker
Natalie MacMaster | Speaker | TED.com
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