Birds on the Wires live at TEDxSP (official version)

The official TEDx São Paulo video of the live performance of Birds on the Wires.
This and other TED Talks of the SP event at http://www.tedxsaopaulo.com.br/

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I've to talk pretty fast
because I'm risking this introduction to be
longer than the song I'm gonna show, which is really short.
This is a story about a picture turning into a song.
Some day in the morning I was reading the news and I've found a picture
of birds sitting on electric wires.
The picture was really interesting to me because
that reminded me a musical notation
then I've got the idea to cut the picture
and to try playing that the birds was "composing"
I've got my piano
and I notice that was a super poetical song, super sweet, almost childish.
Of course I've to consider time, notes length.
But I've tried to be the most faithful possible
to the birds' position regarding to chords and the melody they were forming.
Then, I did a classical arrangement and send that picture to the photographer, who I've found
by Google, Paulo Pinto, a photographer for Estadao.
Then he's got touched, speaking: "Man, that's beautiful"
then he send me the original picture
which was that picture with more space, because Estadao had cropped the picture
then I'd taken another 4 notes each side
Then I get back to my piano, played that again and sounds like that
thing has got closed, those were the notes missing on my melody.
And then I send back to him and he's send that to a reporter
and that has became a story on the very Estadao.
I was very intrigued by the dimension that was taking
and I've decided to do a video, a little video to illustrate my thinking to understand
that picture.
I've posted the video two days later
on Internet and that became a world hit
a thing hard to realize, the speed and power that could have
That's made part of sites as Gizmodo, Wired, MSN, in that week I was giving interviews to
American radio, German radio
that was shown at TEDx Phoenix, was shown at the Columbia festival in New York.
That is, that thing has grew millions on views, it's really not possible to realize
how that small initiative would become all this.
I think the lesson learned by me was that is possible to see poetry anywhere
depending on the way we look at things.
It's possible to find that, that depends on any initiative taken by us.
I want to play this song to you
I did an extended version especially to TED.
Thank you.