Rattlebrained

From TEDtalksDirector: In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.

I once slept in a friend’s cellar and woke up during the night in it’s absolute pitch black. I was laying on my side and experimented opening and closing my eyes a few times marveling at the total lack of light and visual information of any kind when I suddenly was acutely aware of the fact that there was a wall right in front of me. Of course I knew the bed was against the wall but this was different, I could “feel” the wall right there maybe 5 inches from my face. I reached out with my hand and there it was exactly…

More than surprise, doubt or self debate on “mysterious senses”, my main memory of that experience is one of delight; the magic of perception and perceiving.

Some videos are 3 minutes long, this one is 30 minutes short and shares another batch of perceptual magic:

The website of Dame Evelyn Glennie

Enjoy.