Do you Speak Pentatonic? The Multilinguality of Music | De Kai | TEDxWanChai

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Universally familiar yet defying categorisation, ReOrientate is dedicated to weaving rich, surprising, irresistible grooves and harmonies through humanity's diverse heritages, the musical migration all the way back to Asia standing for ReOrientate's commitment to transcending communication barriers, in a shared search from the Far East to the Far West for the intangible relationships that emerge from human universality.

Creator of the unique Hong Kong-based multicultural collective ReOrientate, De Kai is among only 17 selected worldwide by the Association for Computational Linguistics to be honoured in 2011 as a Founding ACL Fellow, for his pioneering contributions to machine learning of the relationships between different languages.

A Berkeley PhD holder who came to Hong Kong to help create the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, De Kai built the world's first web translation service by developing radically new statistical translation foundations, with broad cross cultural applications in language and music. ReOrientate manifests these universals in multilingual pop by drawing upon Oriental musical traditions from Taoist, Sufi, Hindu, and Buddhist roots as well as the vast diaspora of tribes originating from ancient trade routes linking present-day western China, northern India, and eastern Pakistan, ranging from the Spanish flamenco gypsies to the Polynesians.

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