Music and the art of listening

There was a full blown row in our household about whether Michael Jackson was Mozart. Or Beethoven. Or neither. And whether it would have been a news story if he hadn't just sold three quarters of a million tickets at the O2. So what better way to pour oil on troubled waters than to have Evelyn Glennie talk about music at TED? And silence us all. Thanks to solobass Steve Lawson for this link.

I love the way she takes the freak aspect of being a deaf musician full on to claim that deaf musicians are changing the way we think about sound. Just brilliant. Pin back your ears - if you need them.