Live performance | Tim Exile | TEDxCardiff

Tim's brilliant, funny, enchanting performance captivates everyone in the building. But on top of that, we get an insight into his relationship with music, and what inspired him to build his own marvellous music machine. Tim Exile is an electronic music improvisor, composer and producer alongside being an inventor and maker of electronic musical instruments. He has made critically acclaimed albums for Warp records, toured the stages of every continent and released his own software creations in collaboration with music tech leaders Native Instruments to outstanding commercial success. As a multiple TEDx speaker Tim performed this year at TED Global. With a deep motor-neurone relationship with sound from playing the violin from age 5, at 12 years old he discovered the enthralling sound world of bootleg rave tapes. A quick but frustrating flirtation with DJing germinated his vision of how sound could be touched and shaped into music live and in the moment. Determined to bring spontaneity, vulnerability and interactivity to a genre of music characterised by long-laboured, highly polished studio production, he set up live online venue timexile.tv for streaming live crowd-sourced performances in 2011. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx