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
TED2010

Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

Thomas Dolby: "Ljubav je nabijen pištolj"

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Za svoj prvi studijski album zadnjih desetljeća, glazbeni inovator Thomas Dolby komponira glazbu u jedinstveno nadahnjujućem okružju obnovljenog čamca za spašavanje. Ovdje slušamo premijeru prelijepe, evokativne pjesme s tog albuma -- o jednoj noći s legendom. Prate ga članovi modernog gudačkog kvarteta Ethel.
- 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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and I've very rarelyrijetko playedigrao
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any newnovi songsPjesme of my ownvlastiti.
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svoje vlastite nove pjesme.
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And that was largelyu velikoj mjeri because there weren'tnisu any.
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Razlog je uvelike bio taj što i nije bilo mojih pjesama.
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So I've been busyzauzet with a couplepar of projectsprojekti,
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and one of them was this:
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a jedan od njih je ovaj,
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The NutmegMuškatni oraščić.
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Nutmeg,
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A 1930s ship'sbrod je lifeboatčamac za spašavanje,
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čamac za spašavanje s broda iz 1930-tih,
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whichkoji I've been restoringvraćajući u prethodno stanje in the gardenvrt
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kojega sam restaurirao u vrtu
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of my beachplaža housekuća in EnglandEngleska.
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svoje kuće na engleskoj plaži.
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And, so now,
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I sad,
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when the polarpolarni iceled capskape meltrastopiti,
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kad se polarni led otopi,
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my recordingsnimanje studiostudio will riseustati up like an arkArka,
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moj studio za snimanje će se dići poput korablje,
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and I'll floatplovak off into the drownedutopio se worldsvijet
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i otplutat ću potopljenim svijetom
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like a characterlik from a J.G. BallardBallard novelroman.
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poput lika iz romana J.G. Ballarda.
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DuringTijekom the day,
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the NutmegMuškatni oraščić collectsprikuplja energyenergija
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iz solarnih panela na krovu kabine,
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na vrhu jarbola.
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So that when it getsdobiva darkmrak,
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Pa kad se smrači,
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I've got plentymnogo of powervlast.
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imam puno struje.
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And I can lightsvjetlo up the NutmegMuškatni oraščić like a beaconsvjetionik.
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I mogu Nutmega upaliti poput svjetionika.
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And so I go in there untildo the earlyrano hourssati of the morningjutro,
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Pa sam na njemu do ranih jutarnjih sati.
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and I work on newnovi songsPjesme.
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I radim na novim pjesmama.
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I'd like to playigrati to you guys,
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Volio bih vam svirati, ljudi,
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if you're willingspreman to be the first audiencepublika to hearčuti it.
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ako želite biti prva publika koja će ovo čuti.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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It's about BillieBillie HolidayOdmor.
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Pjesma je o Billie Holiday.
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And it appearsČini that,
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some night in 1947
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jedne noći 1947. godine,
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ona napustila svoj fizički prostor
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and was missingnedostaje all night,
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i nije je bilo cijele noći,
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untildo she reappearedponovo pojavio in the morningjutro.
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dok se nije ponovno pojavila ujutro.
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But I know where she was.
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No, ja znam gdje je bila.
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She was with me on my lifeboatčamac za spašavanje.
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Bila je sa mnom na mom čamcu za spašavanje.
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And she was hotvruće.
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(MusicGlazba)
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BillieBillie creptgmizati softlynježno
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♫ Billie se uvukla meko ♫
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♫ into my wakingBudi armsoružje
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♫ u moj razbuđeni zagrljaj ♫
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warmtoplo like a sipgutljaj of sourkiselo mashkaša
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♫ topla poput gutljaja kiselog pića ♫
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♫ Čudno voće za ♫
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♫ a sweetslatko hunkkomadina of trashsmeće
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♫ slatku gomilu smeća ♫
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PanicPanika at the stagefaza doorvrata
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♫ Panika na ulazu na binu ♫
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♫ of CarnegieCarnegie HallDvorana
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♫ Carnegie Halla ♫
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♫ "FamousPoznati JazzJazz SingerPjevač GoneNema AWOLBEZ DOZVOLE" ♫
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♫ "Slavna jazz pjevačica nestala" ♫
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MustMora have left the buildingzgrada
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♫ Mora da je napustila zgradu ♫
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bodytijelo and soulduša
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♫ klavirskom stolcu noćas ♫
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♫ as the moonmjesec is my ♫
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♫ only witnesssvjedok
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♫ "This time it's love" ♫
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♫ "Ovoga puta, ljubav je to" ♫
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♫ But love is a loadedopterećen pistolpištolj
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♫ Ali ljubav je nabijen pištolj ♫
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♫ By daybreaku zoru she's goneotišao
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♫ Prije zore, ona odlazi ♫
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♫ Over the frozenzamrznut riverRijeka, home ♫
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♫ Preko smrznute rijeke, kući ♫
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♫ Me and JohnnyJohnny WalkerWalker
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♫ Ja i Johnny Walker ♫
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StayOstati with me ♫
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♫ ponovno večeras ♫
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♫ Billie, vrijeme, ♫
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♫ time is a wilylukavi tricksterŠaljivac
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♫ je lukava varalica ♫
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♫ Still an echoodjek
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♫ U srcu, jeka mi ♫
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♫ in my heartsrce sayskaže, ♫
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♫ još uvijek kaže, ♫
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♫ "This time it's love" ♫
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♫ "Ovoga puta je ljubav" ♫
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Translated by Davorin Jelačić
Reviewed by Tilen Pigac - EFZG

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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