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Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

Advanced Presenter Julian Treasure is back on TED, this time telling us why architects need to use their ears.

According to Julian, due to poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50 percent of what their teachers say, and patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed. This is a call to action for designers to pay attention to the “invisible architecture” of sound.

Julian Treasure is the chair of the Sound Agency, a firm that advises worldwide businesses including offices, retailers, hotels on how to use sound.

Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

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Julian Treasure And Five Ways To Listen Better

If you think of the three tags of Advanced Presenter, Sound, and TED in one sentence, then you are probably talking about Julian Treasure of The Sound Agency. In his latest talk at TED Global 2011, he tells about the skill of conscious listening and gives us five ways to re-tune our ears for listening both to other people and the world around you.

Julian is an entertaining and confident presenter with a commanding stage presence. For anyone needing to give a talk to an audience of any size, you can improve your delivery just by emulating his sparse use of visual aids, effective use of tonality and grounded body position. See the measured use of hand gestures to emphasize a point. Listen to his well paced delivery, even in the confined space of a TED talk. From the welcoming open body posture at the beginning of the presentation to the relaxed stance for the well deserved applause at the end, Julian is grounded.

To watch an advanced presenter give a great talk about a subject from which we can all benefit, visit Julian Treasure And Five Ways To Listen Better

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Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen

Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening?

Here’s Advanced Presenter Julian Treasure to help. In this useful TED talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to’s of powerful speaking, from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. A talk that might help the world sound more beautiful.

To watch presenter Julian give a great talk about a subject from which we can all benefit, visit Julian Treasure How to speak so that people want to listen

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Julian Treasure On TED: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Advanced Presenter Julian Treasure is on TED again, this time with a great talk Shh! Sound health in 8 steps.

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health, and even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap ear buds) and restore our relationship with sound.

If you don’t know about reductive listening, expansive listening, schizophonia, or noise-induced hearing disorder, then you really do need to watch this video and listen to Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

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See Julian Treasure live on the TED website

Have you seen the TED video by Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us? Have you heard that there are four major ways sound is affecting you all the time? Do you feel uncomfortable with unpleasant sounds, and don’t know why?

Julian Treasure is the chair of the Sound Agency, a firm that advises worldwide businesses including offices, retailers and hotels on how to use sound. In this video on the TED website he shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Click here to watch Julian now.

An Advanced Presenter, and the author of the book Sound Business, Julian keeps a blog by the same name that ruminates on aural matters (and offers a nice day-by-day writeup of TEDGlobal 2009). In the early 1980s, he was the drummer for the seminal post punk band Transmitters, highly acclaimed in the much respected underground scene which accompanied the punk revolution.

Visit www.soundbusiness.biz for details of the book Sound Business, as featured on BBC TV and radio and in The Economist, TIME Magazine, The Director, The Guardian, Brand Management and others.

Click here to visit the Sound Business blog