TEDGlobal 2012
Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
Neil Harbisson: Ma kuulan värve
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Kunstnik Neil Harbisson sündis värvipimedana, kuid tema pea külge kinnitatud seade muudab värvid kuuldavateks sagedusteks. Selle asemel, et näha maailma hallides toonides, suudab Harbisson kuulda värvide sümfooniat -- ning kuulata isegi nägusid ja maale.
Neil Harbisson - Sonochromatic Cyborg Artist
Neil Harbisson's "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight. Full bio
Neil Harbisson's "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight. Full bio
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00:16
Well, I was born with a rare visual condition
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Ma sündisin haruldase nägemishäirega,
00:20
called achromatopsia, which is total color blindness,
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mida nimetatakse akromatopsiaks - täielik värvipimedus.
00:23
so I've never seen color,
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Niisiis, ma ei ole kunagi näinud värve
00:25
and I don't know what color looks like,
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ja ma ei tea, kuidas värv välja näeb,
00:28
because I come from a grayscale world.
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sest ma elan hallide toonide maailmas.
00:31
To me, the sky is always gray,
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Minu jaoks on taevas alati hall,
00:33
flowers are always gray,
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lilled on alati hallid
00:35
and television is still in black and white.
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ja televisioon on endiselt must-valge.
00:37
But, since the age of 21,
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Kuid alates 21. eluaastast -
00:40
instead of seeing color, I can hear color.
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ma mitte ei näe, vaid hoopis kuulen värve.
00:44
In 2003, I started a project
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Aastal 2003 alustasin ma projektiga,
00:47
with computer scientist Adam Montandon,
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kus lõi kaasa arvutiteadlasest Adam Montandoni,
00:49
and the result, with further collaborations
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mille tulemusena, edasises koostöös
00:53
with Peter Kese from Slovenia
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Sloveenia päritolu Peter Kese
00:55
and Matias Lizana from Barcelona,
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ja Barcelonast pärit Matias Lizanaga,
00:58
is this electronic eye.
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sündis see elektrooniline silm.
01:00
It's a color sensor that detects
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See on värvisensor, mis tuvastab
01:02
the color frequency in front of me — (Frequency sounds) —
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minu ees oleva värvi sageduse -- (kõlab helisignaal) --
01:06
and sends this frequency to a chip installed
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ja saadab selle helisignaali kiipi, mis on paigutatud
01:08
at the back of my head, and I hear the color in front of me
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minu pea tagaküljele ja ma kuulen enda ees olevat värvi
01:11
through the bone, through bone conduction.
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läbi pealuu, läbi luu võime juhtida vibratsiooni.
01:14
(Frequency sounds) So, for example, if I have, like —
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(Kõlab helisignaal) Näiteks, kui mul on, näiteks --
01:21
This is the sound of purple. (Frequency sounds)
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See on lilla heli. (Kõlab helisignaal)
01:24
For example, this is the sound of grass. (Frequency sounds)
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Näiteks see on rohu heli. (Kõlab helisignaal)
01:32
This is red, like TED. (Frequency sounds)
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See on punane nagu TED. (Kõlab helisignaal)
01:34
This is the sound of a dirty sock. (Laughter)
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See on määrdunud soki heli. (Naer)
01:38
Which is like yellow, this one.
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Mis on nagu kollane, vot see.
01:40
So I've been hearing color all the time for eight years,
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Nii et ma olen viimased kaheksa aastat värve kuulnud,
01:44
since 2004, so I find it completely normal now
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aastast 2004, ja nüüdseks tundub mulle täiesti normaalne
01:47
to hear color all the time.
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kogu aeg värve kuulda.
01:49
At the start, though, I had to memorize the names you give
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Alguses pidin ma jätma meelde kõik need nimed, mis teil
01:53
for each color, so I had to memorize the notes,
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värvide jaoks on ja ma pidin meelde jätma ka need helid,
01:56
but after some time, all this information
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kuid aja möödudes muutus kogu see informatsioon
01:58
became a perception.
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tajuks.
02:00
I didn't have to think about the notes.
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Ma ei pidanud enam helidele mõtlema.
02:02
And after some time, this perception became a feeling.
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Mõne aja pärast sai sellest tajust tunnetus.
02:04
I started to have favorite colors,
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Mul tekkisid enda lemmikvärvid
02:06
and I started to dream in colors.
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ja ma hakkasin nägema värvilisi unenägusid.
02:08
So, when I started to dream in color is when I felt
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Siis kui ma hakkasin värvilisi unenägusid nägema, mõistsin
02:12
that the software and my brain had united,
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ma, et tarkvara ja mu aju on moodustanud terviku,
02:15
because in my dreams, it was my brain creating
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sest minu unenägudes, oli aju see, mis
02:18
electronic sounds. It wasn't the software,
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elektroonilisi helisid tekitas. See ei olnud see tarkvara.
02:20
so that's when I started to feel like a cyborg.
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Nii et see oli hetk, mil ma hakkasin end tundma küborgina.
02:24
It's when I started to feel that the cybernetic device
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Ma tundsin, et see küberneetiline seade
02:27
was no longer a device.
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ei olnud enam tööriist,
02:29
It had become a part of my body,
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vaid sellest oli saanud osa minu kehast,
02:32
an extension of my senses,
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käepikendus minu meeltele.
02:34
and after some time, it even became a part
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Ja mõne aja pärast muutus see lausa
02:37
of my official image.
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minu ametliku imago osaks.
02:40
This is my passport from 2004.
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See on minu pass aastast 2004.
02:43
You're not allowed to appear on U.K. passports
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UK passi piltidel ei ole lubatud olla
02:46
with electronic equipment, but I insisted
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elektrooniliste seadmetega, aga ma väitsin
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to the passport office that what they were seeing
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migratsiooniametis, et see mida nad näevad
02:51
was actually a new part of my body,
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on uudne osa minu kehast,
02:53
an extension of my brain, and they finally accepted me
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minu aju käepikendus. Ja lõpuks anti mulle luba
02:57
to appear with the passport photo.
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koos sellega passipildile jääda.
02:59
So, life has changed dramatically since I hear color,
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Elu on ajast, mil värve kuulma hakkasin, tohutult muutunud,
03:03
because color is almost everywhere,
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sest värvid on peaaegu kõikjal.
03:05
so the biggest change for example is
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Kõige suurem muutus on näiteks see,
03:08
going to an art gallery, I can listen to a Picasso,
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kui lähen kunstigaleriisse, kus ma võin kuulata Picassot.
03:13
for example. So it's like I'm going to a concert hall,
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See on just nagu läheksin kontserdimajja,
03:16
because I can listen to the paintings.
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sest ma saan maale kuulata.
03:18
And supermarkets, I find this is very shocking,
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Ja ostukeskuste - ja mulle tundub see väga šokeeriv, kuid
03:20
it's very, very attractive to walk along a supermarket.
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ostukeskuses kõndimine on väga, väga huvitav.
03:23
It's like going to a nightclub.
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See on nagu läheks ööklubisse.
03:25
It's full of different melodies. (Laughter) Yeah.
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See on täis erinevaid meloodiad. (Naer) Jah.
03:28
Especially the aisle with cleaning products.
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Eriti puhastusvahendite sektsioonis.
03:30
It's just fabulous. (Laughter)
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See on lihtsalt vapustav. (Naer)
03:33
Also, the way I dress has changed.
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Mu riietumisstiil on samuti muutunud.
03:36
Before, I used to dress in a way that it looked good.
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Varem riietusin ma nii, et lõpptulemus hea välja näeks.
03:38
Now I dress in a way that it sounds good. (Laughter)
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Nüüd riietun ma nii, et see hästi kõlaks. (Naer)
03:43
(Applause)
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(Applaus)
03:48
So today I'm dressed in C major,
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Niisiis, olen ma täna riietunud C-mažoori,
03:51
so it's quite a happy chord. (Laughter)
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see on üsna õnnelik akord. (Naer)
03:54
If I had to go to a funeral, though,
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Kuid kui ma peaksin minema matustele,
03:56
I would dress in B minor, which would be
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riietuksin B-molli, mis oleks
03:58
turquoise, purple and orange. (Laughter)
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türkiis, lilla ja oranž. (Naer)
04:07
Also, food, the way I look at food has changed,
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Minu suhtumine toitu on samuti muutunud,
04:11
because now I can display the food on a plate,
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sest nüüd võin ma toidu taldrikul sättida nii,
04:15
so I can eat my favorite song. (Laughter)
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et süüa oma lemmiklaulu. (Naer)
04:18
So depending on how I display it,
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Niisiis, sõltuvalt sellest, kuidas ma selle sätin,
04:19
I can hear and I can compose music with food.
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on mul toiduga võimalik kuulda ja luua muusikat.
04:22
So imagine a restaurant where we can have, like,
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Nii et kujutlege restorani, kus saame tellida
04:25
Lady Gaga salads as starters. (Laughter) I mean,
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eelroaks Lady Gaga salati. (Naer)
04:28
this would get teenagers to eat their vegetables, probably.
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Selle abil õnnestuks teismelised ehk juurvilju sööma panna.
04:31
And also, some Rachmaninov piano concertos
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Ja siis mõni Rahmaninovi klaverikontsert
04:34
as main dishes, and some Bjork or Madonna desserts,
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pearoaks ja pisut Björki või Madonnat magustoiduks.
04:37
that would be a very exciting restaurant
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See oleks väga põnev restoran,
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where you can actually eat songs.
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kus te saate päriselt laule süüa.
04:43
Also, the way I perceive beauty has changed,
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Ka mu ilutaju on muutunud,
04:48
because when I look at someone, I hear their face,
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kuna kui ma kedagi vaatan, kuulen ma nende nägu.
04:52
so someone might look very beautiful but sound terrible.
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Nii võib mõni olla väga nägus, kuid kõlada kohutavalt.
04:57
(Laughter) And it might happen the opposite,
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(Naer) Ja võib juhtuda ka vastupidine.
04:59
the other way around. So I really enjoy creating, like,
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Teistpidi. Nii et ma tõsiselt naudin inimeste
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sound portraits of people.
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heliportreede loomist.
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Instead of drawing someone's face, like drawing the shape,
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Selle asemel, et joonistada kellegi nägu, selle vormi,
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I point at them with the eye and I write down
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suunan ma nende peale selle silma ja märgin üles
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the different notes I hear, and then I create sound portraits.
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noodid, mida kuulen ning loon seejärel heliportree.
05:12
Here's some faces.
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Siin on mõned näod.
05:14
(Musical chords)
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(Akordid)
05:29
Yeah, Nicole Kidman sounds good. (Laughter)
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Jah, Nicole Kidman kõlab hästi. (Naer)
05:32
Some people, I would never relate, but they sound similar.
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On inimesi, kes pole üldse sarnased, kuid kõlavad sarnaselt
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Prince Charles has some similarities with Nicole Kidman.
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Prints Charlesil on sarnasusi Nicole Kidmaniga.
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They have similar sound of eyes.
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Nende silmad kõlavad sarnaselt.
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So you relate people that you wouldn't relate,
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Niisiis, saad sa seostada inimesi, keda muidu ei seostaks.
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and you can actually also create concerts
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Ja tegelikult saad sa kontserte luua ka
05:46
by looking at the audience faces.
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publiku nägusid vaadates.
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So I connect the eye, and then I play the audience's faces.
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Nii et ma ühendan selle silma ja mängin publiku nägudel.
05:51
The good thing about this is,
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Hea on selle juures see,
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if the concert doesn't sound good, it's their fault.
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et kui kontsert on halb, siis see on publiku süü.
05:56
It's not my fault, because — (Laughter)
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Mina ei ole süüdi (Naer)
05:58
And so another thing that happens is that
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Teine asi, mis juhtub, on see et
06:02
I started having this secondary effect
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mul on sellest kõigest ka kõrvalmõju -
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that normal sounds started to become color.
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tavalised helid on hakanud värvideks muutuma.
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I heard a telephone tone, and it felt green
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Ma kuulsin telefonihelinat ja see tundus roheline,
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because it sounded just like the color green.
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kuna see kõlas täpselt nagu roheline värv.
06:15
The BBC beeps, they sound turquoise,
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BBC kõllid kõlavad türkiisselt
06:18
and listening to Mozart became a yellow experience,
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ja Mozarti kuulamisest sai kollane kogemus.
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so I started to paint music and paint people's voices,
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Ma hakkasin muusikat ja inimeste hääli maalima,
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because people's voices have frequencies
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sest iga inimese häälel on teatav sagedus,
06:28
that I relate to color.
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mida ma seostan värvidega.
06:29
And here's some music translated into color.
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Siin on veidi värvidesse tõlgitud muusikat.
06:34
For example, Mozart, "Queen of the Night," looks like this.
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Näiteks Mozarti "Öökuninganna" näeb välja selline.
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(Music) Very yellow and very colorful,
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(Muusika) Väga kollane ja väga värviline,
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because there's many different frequencies.
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sest selles on palju erinevaid sagedusi.
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(Music)
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(Muusika)
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And this is a completely different song.
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Ja see on hoopis erinev laul.
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(Music) It's Justin Bieber's "Baby." (Laughter)
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(Muusika) See on Justin Bieberi "Baby." (Naer)
06:54
(Music)
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(Muusika)
06:56
It is very pink and very yellow.
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See on väga roosa ja väga kollane.
06:59
So, also voices, I can transform speeches into color,
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Lisaks saan ma ka kõnesid värvideks teisendada.
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for example, these are two very well-known speeches.
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Need on näiteks kaks väga kuulsat kõne.
07:10
One of them is Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream,"
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Üks neist on Martin Luther Kingi "Mul on üks unistus"
07:14
and the other one is Hitler.
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ja teine on Hitler.
07:15
And I like to exhibit these paintings in the exhibition halls
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Ja mulle meeldib neid maale näitusesaalides eksponeerida
07:18
without labels, and then I ask people,
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ilma siltideta. Ja siis ma küsin inimestelt,
07:21
"Which one do you prefer?"
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kumba nad eelistavad.
07:23
And most people change their preference
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Ja enamik inimesi muudavad enda meelt,
07:25
when I tell them that the one on the left is Hitler
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kui ma teatan neile, et vasakul on Hitler
07:28
and the one on the right is Martin Luther King.
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ja paremal on Martin Luther King.
07:31
So I got to a point when I was able to perceive 360 colors,
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Nii jõudsin ma hetkeni, mil olin võimeline tajuma 360. värvi,
07:37
just like human vision.
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just nagu inimese nägemisvõime.
07:39
I was able to differentiate all the degrees of the color wheel.
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Ma olin võimeline eristama kõiki värvispektri toone.
07:42
But then, I just thought that
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Aga siis mõtlesin ma,
07:44
this human vision wasn't good enough.
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et inimese nägemisvõimest mulle ei piisa.
07:47
There's many, many more colors around us
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Meie ümber on nii palju värve,
07:50
that we cannot perceive,
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mida me ei taju,
07:51
but that electronic eyes can perceive.
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kuid mida elektroonilised silmad suudavad tajuda.
07:53
So I decided to continue extending my color senses,
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Seetõttu otsustasin ma enda värvimeelte laiendamist jätkata
07:57
and I added infrared and I added ultraviolet
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ja ma lisasin infrapunase ja ultravioletse
08:01
to the color-to-sound scale, so now I can hear colors
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värvi-heli skaalale ning nüüd saan ma kuulda värve,
08:05
that the human eye cannot perceive.
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mida inimsilm ei suuda tajuda.
08:07
For example, perceiving infrared is good because you can
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Näiteks infrapuna tajumine on hea, kuna sa
08:10
actually detect if there's movement detectors in a room.
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märkad, kui ruumis on liikumisandurid.
08:14
I can hear if someone points at me with a remote control.
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Ma kuulen, kui keegi kaugjuhtimispuldi minu peale suunab.
08:18
And the good thing about perceiving ultraviolet is that
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Ja hea asi ultraviolettkiirguse tajumise juures on see,
08:21
you can hear if it's a good day or a bad day to sunbathe,
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et te kuulete, kas päevitamiseks on hea või halb päev,
08:26
because ultraviolet is a dangerous color,
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kuna ultraviolett on ohtlik värv,
08:28
a color that can actually kill us, so I think we should all have this wish
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värv, mis võib meid päriselt tappa. Me võiks kõik soovida
08:32
to perceive things that we cannot perceive.
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omada võimet tajuda tajumatut.
08:35
That's why, two years ago,
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Sellepärast asutasin ma kaks aastat tagasi
08:37
I created the Cyborg Foundation,
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Küberorganismi Sihtasutuse,
08:38
which is a foundation that tries to help people
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mis on organisatsioon, kes proovib aidata inimestel
08:41
become a cyborg, tries to encourage people
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küborgiks muutuda, proovib inimesi julgustada
08:44
to extend their senses
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oma meeli laiendama
08:45
by using technology as part of the body.
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läbi tehnoloogia kasutamise oma keha osana.
08:48
We should all think that knowledge comes from our senses,
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Peaksime tõdema, et teadmised tulevad meie meeltest,
08:52
so if we extend our senses,
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nii et kui me laiendame oma meeli,
08:54
we will consequently extend our knowledge.
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laiendame me selle tagajärjel ka oma teadmist.
08:57
I think life will be much more exciting
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Ma arvan, et elu saab olema palju põnevam,
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when we stop creating applications for mobile phones
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kui me lõpetame mobiiltelefonidele rakenduste loomise
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and we start creating applications for our own body.
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ja hakkame looma rakendusi enda kehale.
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I think this will be a big, big change
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Ma arvan, et sellest saab suur, suur muutus,
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that we will see during this century.
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mille tunnistajateks saame olla juba sellel sajandil.
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So I do encourage you all to think about which senses
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Seetõttu julgustan teid kõiki mõtlema, missuguseid meeli
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you'd like to extend.
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te sooviksite laiendada.
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I would encourage you to become a cyborg.
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Ma julgustaksin teid saama küborgiks.
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You won't be alone. Thank you. (Applause)
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Te ei oleks üksi. Tänan. (Aplaus)
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Neil Harbisson - Sonochromatic Cyborg ArtistNeil Harbisson's "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight.
Why you should listen
Born with the inability to see color, Neil Harbisson wears a prosthetic device — he calls it an "eyeborg" — that allows him to hear the spectrum, even those colors beyond the range of human sight. His unique experience of color informs his artwork — which, until he met cyberneticist Adam Montandon at a college lecture, was strictly black-and-white. By working with Montandon, and later with Peter Kese, Harbisson helped design a lightweight eyepiece that he wears on his forehead that transposes the light frequencies of color hues into sound frequencies.
Harbisson's artwork blurs the boundaries between sight and sound. In his Sound Portraits series, he listens to the colors of faces to create a microtonal chord. In the City Colours project, he expresses the capital cities of Europe in two colors (Monaco is azure and salmon pink; Bratislava yellow and turquoise).
Neil Harbisson | Speaker | TED.com