Jared Ficklin
Creative Technologist | Exploring Music Through Visual and Physical Experiences
About
Jared Ficklin is a creative technologist at Argodesign who explores innovative ways to experience and understand music through multi-sensory approaches. His work focuses on transforming audio into visual and tactile experiences, using unconventional mediums like color and fire to make music visible and tangible.
Ficklin's presentations demonstrate how technology can bridge different sensory experiences, creating new pathways for audience engagement with musical content. His approach combines technical expertise with artistic vision, developing methods that translate sound waves into visual spectacles and physical phenomena.
Through his work, he challenges traditional boundaries between audio and visual media, showing how creative technology can reveal hidden aspects of musical composition and performance. His speaking engagements span prestigious venues from TED to international design conferences, where he shares insights on the intersection of music, technology, and visual art.
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New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark -- and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.
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