# Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds

Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero shows how that the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical expression," she says. "We are already immersed."

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 13 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Nature, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MeklitHadero_2015F)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/MeklitHadero_2015F?play=1)