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Innovation is the tradition of jazz | Onur Ataman | TEDxYouth@BursaKoleji


hello everyone my name is honor atomic
I’m a jazz musician and educator
first of all I would start with a little
bit playing so because of the performers
[Music]
[Laughter]
well I can play out in the morning
actually what is my subject let’s say
lately I was pretty much focused on the
innovation and the Jazz in the context
so but at the same time of course when
we come here today they call that like
you need to talk about maybe a little
bit it’ll be no effects there’s the main
subject is not me nothing so how we can
relate it with the domino effect and all
together so I just look at the cameras
dictionary and what does that mean
domino effect usually the meaning is
like kind of negative like something
happens and then some other things
starts to fall with the bad thing but
there is another description which is
like kind of underneath it’s covered to
me a little bit more positive and
actually I chose in my life this type of
domino effect which is things can be get
bad but and how we can turn them to be
this guy is actually me when I was I
guess 13 or something like your age I
was dreaming about becoming a guitar
player learn about music as you see you
know all those pants and everything over
there so this is like by the way my kind
of
friends room actually those days was not
really allowed to painted walls I’ll say
well I was just like you know really
triggered to learn music and just like
look for the information everywhere and
teachers and schools and everything but
this was difficult so I felt many times
so then I start to realize in my life
that I had to create it somehow this
learning process and educate myself to
become guitar player and a musician and
then I come across with the jazz music
actually afterwards because jazz music
gives the opportunity for a person to be
free like the 30 years old guy in the
you know Roxy situation let’s say but in
the same time you got like a lot of
information and about yourself and the
music in general so the jazz music is
actually covers everything with itself
so it’s not really necessary to go
through my biography but that’s like you
know after the room situation or like a
garage band thing and this education
happened in my life because I was really
like I push myself to learn and just
like affected positively that in the end
I become a musician so from their own we
need to ask actually what is innovation
so it’s a state of mind actually we have
to call it this way because in its like
kind of fancy word these days but
everybody uses the innovation but how I
can actually internalize this word and
use in ourselves and in our lives and in
try let’s say so as you
see it on the beach like a these can be
just a regular basis like you know rainy
day but then you can’t just like you
know turn that and find out something
else it’s just like you know that’s how
it goes actually innovation can be
really micro to me grow let’s say but
when it comes to the jazz music you just
like asking okay then what is jazz music
well Louie Armstrong says that like
about if you ask this question you might
not really get an answer right away I
think it’s really true because the
jazzman’s music it covers all the things
all the music all the culture and and
within the musicians and the also people
who listen sand and all the music that
is just like evolved into a jazz music
there is a theory or I like to see it
that way platform actually many many
many many years ago he just say he
wanted to kind of you know what putting
into the statement that if somebody or
people won’t forget like a creative
education not necessarily the physics or
cannot exist before but actually for
their soul and the for their creation
the music was the essence of their
education and there is a very big truth
of that and I believe it as an educator
also myself so when we say innovation
you know what this more comes to your
mind and these kind of people comes to
your mind in the same time immediately
so we don’t think anything else like we
just like think about Einstein
you know it’s the job so first Henry
Ford or you know another mosque and the
people who are presented for the
Society’s you know the kind of actually
this creates a positive effect but in
the same time there’s a person like this
Hardware in the room it’s like you know
it’s too much like I mean am I going to
be I’m starting to become even narrator
like how is that possible I want to play
the guitar so it’s just like sometimes
it’s not really matching because of the
fact that the innovation comes to our
mind in a different perspective so but
the same time we can think about the art
in general so don’t forget about the art
of course and we can think about dolly
and like Mondrian or a share or Leonardo
and then just yeah they’re innovators
here that’s okay you know what you can
look at your horse I mean you know like
there’s no discussion about it but what
about these guys when you look at them
do you think that they are innovators
yes they are they did many many things
were first of all for the music but also
for the society they be just like you
know what innovators in their field so
when we think about the art and
innovation in a this kind of all you
know the atoms we can see like the
sources structure and the culture are
affecting the in a whole let’s say so
it’s like you need like a people an
artist like you need a talent and you
need an actually maybe
and you need a method to be calm and you
need to be structured for innovation
let’s say and the culturally also you
are involved with the date night so but
the one of the first I mean one of the
biggest aspect of jazz music that
relates to innovation yourself is the
the tournament maybe you might say like
the import equalization so the
improvisation itself is a innovation in
itself in the same time I see it that
way because it’s like every minute and
every second is a different it’s
different you know I played differently
and you take risks and you have to make
the new ones new normals new music so
how this is more well this is a getting
now our quite maybe let’s say like I
don’t know two critical maybe to look at
the improvisation but there are stages
of improvisation that you can create
like no strategic rustic material or
uses a new speaker materials and
sections when I’m teaching to kids or
like anyone who wants to learn about
jazz I try to force that thing in a
really balanced and structural way the
structure you need to anything you’re in
your system and then there are many
things around that happening is not just
only one note but there are so many
ideas and things just like happens and
then actually the most important thing
that the last statement over there
you have to be ready aim improvised and
then hope for the innovation so we can
also look at a in a hexagon context the
equalization so we use my anything about
music like the context and style you
require the structure
performance musical elements and
everything but we need to be like
assignment that’s the important point to
be able to get our message come across
well let’s play crazy music game
together
when you improvise first you eat the
focus you need to act you need to
experiment these triangle is very
essential so I have this little chart
here sorry and I need like two great
students here not necessarily understand
music let’s do it very quick that’s okay
it’s one each one comes well please come
well this is a cycle piece okay and
these are the chords do you know
anything about them
not very well what’s your name anyway
okay great well the thing is that what I
want you to do like I make a little
composition very fast so you choose one
two three four five and now you choose
one letter and I’m cracking down here
this do it quick so you choose one you
choose one which is like a major seven
and with which letter yeah if I B flat
where is that naya-a okay a flat Tobin
and seven please search here’s okay very
well
beautiful emajor seven sharp eleven Wow
sounds really complicated and the last
work for half damage five key half
Danish right so we got like four parts
well thank you very much you will see
that what’s going to happen so you can
just like oh this way so your friends
just like choose random chords which
they don’t know actually work there so I
would like to play the first part for
well this is beef let me just have a
beautiful people that make so
[Music]
well this must be quite a coincidence
because it worked very well right so the
first one I like it very good
and the third one I’m not quite sure
what it is but this is like kind of
surprising so we kind of actually now
creating a not really common situation
so we got like this
[Music]
anybody home bitches not too bad right
so and the last chord is G ha finish
well you know what is the point
it’s like when you want to innovate
something when you want to create
something you don’t need to think about
in the in the boxes or shapes like
because as a musician myself if I want
to compose anything and I see power in
table and then just like you know piece
of paper and then just like what the
compose something you know what maybe
it’s very difficult for me to think
about a flat 7 after E major 7 sharply
but in the context now it just works and
if you will do it like a one more time
guess what it will work again so if you
don’t believe me you know we can try at
home if you play a little bit just you
know we’re just right random note
something let’s do another example where
your friends tell me a note name just
like touring across or acid or senior
you know it’s just like magic you know
like just like random notes and did you
study any music you what this is great
really thank you much for so this is
actually that’s what about be risk a
risk paper you know like I new batteries
actually you know like I mean think
about it like if you want to do any
professional work or for your school or
for your board anything that you always
want to be surrounded with good people
around you that they are knowledge
knowledgeable or they know everything
right but it’s sometimes it’s not really
necessary as a jazz musician you need to
know how to take risks and actually you
guiding the people that you are working
and this is one of the important aspect
of innovation in my only so here is in
the picture you see Bill Evans and Miles
Davis working together and she story
goes like this
miles heard the song of Bill and faced
like that oh man what do you play
you know he sits like well this is our
course little old up and then he my face
like that well just me no and he was
like playing for a minute and then he
says like just played and everything and
then he was just like doing it and the
result was very good and then he says
like you see like so it was just like
the he’s rail doing things you know like
and they got just like a perfectly
innocent and always look for a progress
of yourself and progress in the society
listen critical thinkers look like the
cast musicians he reflected the main
changer in this was be the main changer
in the society so you just have to lead
what’s going on around look for the
links be open minded take care of others
help help people you have to be artists
of your life I think this is very nice
it’s a romantic saying but I think you
can be the artists of your life you know
I focus next experiment that’s
experimental versus the improvisation
for now and for future equalize and what
is so important this is my dog Hector
he’s curious he wants to take things he
was to just you know even is not allowed
he was too early he wants to look at it
what is there he’s just like curious you
know just I mean trying to be just act
like a little bit Hector I think it’s a
great way of getting things done
and being a narrator well thank you very
much [Applause]
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