ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kaki King - Guitarist
Kaki King combines jaw-dropping guitar work with dreamy, searching songwriting.

Why you should listen

Kaki King's percussive technique (guitar geeks compare it to Preston Reed's; everyone else compares it to Eddie Van Halen's) drives her songs forward, while layers of overdubs and her own soft vocals create a shimmering cloud of sound.

King's work on the soundtrack for 2007's Into the Wild was nominated for a Golden Globe, along with contributors Michael Brook and Eddie Vedder. Her groundbreaking multimedia work The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body uses projection mapping to present the guitar as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other.

More profile about the speaker
Kaki King | Speaker | TED.com
TED2008

Kaki King: Playing "Pink Noise" on guitar

Kaki King svira i pjeva "Roza buka"

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Kaki King, prva ženska osoba na Rolling Stones listi "bogova gitare", svira i pjeva uz puni set na TED-u 2008. uključujući njezin singl s kojim se probila, "Igrajući se s rozom bukom." Zapanjujuća virtuoznost se susreće s tehnikom gitare koja se doista ističe.
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I was thinkingmišljenje about my placemjesto in the universesvemir,
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Razmišljala sam o svom mjestu u svemiru,
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and about my first thought about what infinitybeskonačnost mightmoć mean,
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i o svojoj prvoj misli o tome što bi beskonačnost mogla značiti,
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when I was a childdijete.
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kada sam bila dijete.
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And I thought that if time could reachdohvatiti
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I pomislila sam kad bi vrijeme moglo dosegnuti
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forwardsprema naprijed and backwardsunazad infinitelybeskrajno,
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naprijed i nazad beskonačno,
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doesn't that mean that
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ne znači li to da
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everysvaki pointtočka in time is really infinitelybeskrajno smallmali,
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svaki dijelić vremena je doista beskonačno malen,
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and thereforestoga somewhatnešto meaninglessbez značenja.
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i samim time na neki način beznačajan.
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So we don't really have a placemjesto in the universesvemir,
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Dakle, mi zapravo nemamo svoje mjesto u svemiru,
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as fardaleko as on a time linecrta.
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koje bi bilo udaljeno kao na nekoj lenti vremena.
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But nothing elsedrugo does eitherili.
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Ali isto tako ništa nema.
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ThereforeStoga everysvaki momenttrenutak really is the mostnajviše importantvažno momenttrenutak
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Zato je svaki trenutak uistinu najvažniji trenutak
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that's ever happeneddogodilo, includinguključujući this momenttrenutak right now.
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koji se ikada dogodio, uključujući upravo ovaj trenutak sada.
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And so thereforestoga this musicglazba you're about to hearčuti
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I stoga ova glazba koju ćete sada čuti
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is maybe the mostnajviše importantvažno musicglazba
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je možda najvažnija glazba
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you'llvi ćete ever hearčuti in your life.
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koju ćete ikada čuti u svom životu.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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For those of you who I'll be fortunateSretan enoughdovoljno to meetsastati afterwardsposlije,
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Za sve vas s kojima ću imati prilike se sastati nakon ovoga,
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you could please refrainrefren from sayingizreka,
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molim vas da se suzdržite od pričanja,
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"Oh my god, you're so much shorterkraće in realstvaran life."
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"O moj Bože, mnogo si niža u stvarnom životu."
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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Because it's like the stagefaza is an opticaloptički illusioniluzija,
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Jer kao pozornica je optička varka,
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for some reasonrazlog.
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iz nekog razloga.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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SomewhatPomalo like the curvingvijugavog of the universesvemir.
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Nešto poput zaobljenja svemira.
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I don't know what it is. I get askedpitao in interviewsrazgovori a lot,
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Ne znam što je to. Često me pitaju u intervjuima,
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"My god, you're guitarsgitare are so giganticgigantski!"
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"Moj Bože, vaše gitare su toliko ogromne!"
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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"You mustmora get them customprilagođene madenapravljen -- specialposeban, humongousogromna guitarsgitare."
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"Morate ih dati izraditi po mjeri, posebne, ogromne gitare."
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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Thank you very much.
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Puno vam hvala.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kaki King - Guitarist
Kaki King combines jaw-dropping guitar work with dreamy, searching songwriting.

Why you should listen

Kaki King's percussive technique (guitar geeks compare it to Preston Reed's; everyone else compares it to Eddie Van Halen's) drives her songs forward, while layers of overdubs and her own soft vocals create a shimmering cloud of sound.

King's work on the soundtrack for 2007's Into the Wild was nominated for a Golden Globe, along with contributors Michael Brook and Eddie Vedder. Her groundbreaking multimedia work The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body uses projection mapping to present the guitar as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other.

More profile about the speaker
Kaki King | Speaker | TED.com

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