How to pronounce "impossibility"

that I was shaped by the jazz and hip hop that I grew up with,

by the Ethiopian heritage of my ancestors,

or by the 1980s pop on my childhood radio stations.

But beyond genre, there is another question:

how do the sounds we hear every day influence the music that we make?

I believe that everyday soundscape

can be the most unexpected inspiration for songwriting,

and to look at this idea a little bit more closely,

I'm going to talk today about three things:

nature, language and silence --

or rather, the impossibility of true silence.

And through this I hope to give you a sense of a world

already alive with musical expression,

with each of us serving as active participants,

whether we know it or not.

I'm going to start today with nature, but before we do that,

let's quickly listen to this snippet of an opera singer warming up.

Here it is.

(Singing)

(Singing ends)

It's beautiful, isn't it?