Bobby McFerrin,audience,pentatonic scale,music Bobby McFerrin plays the audience as an instrument

Bobby McFerrin plays the audience as an instrument

posted by arvana

3 months 3 weeks ago • 5498 views

tags: Bobby McFerrin, audience, pentatonic scale, music

Fantastic!

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*quality clip!

Thanks for that!

written by maatc

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by maatc.

written by siftbot

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Great stuff. Love it.

written by robbersdog49

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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How come this isn't in the top 15 yet ?

written by Dr_Q

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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It is now!

written by MaxWilder

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Bloody fucking brilliant. I absolutely loved that. Well done, Bobby.

I wanted to *quality this but maatc beat me to it.

I'll let siftbot tell me I can't anyway, just to make a statement.

written by lucky760

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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This video has already been declared quality - ignoring quality request by lucky760.

written by siftbot

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10 kinds of awesome.

written by sme4r | 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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I tried to post this yesterday but, well, why is it so difficult to link to vimeo on the Sift!? Drove me crazy.

Anyway it's a brilliant clip. I might have to try this out myself sometime!

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I upvote anything Bobby McFerrin. He is amazing.

btw, this routine is not new. here's a video of the original
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bobby-McFerrin-improvises-with-audience

written by nomino

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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>> ^nomino:
I upvote anything Bobby McFerrin. He is amazing.

btw, this routine is not new. here's a video of the original
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bobby-McFerrin-improvises-with-audience

written by Fusionaut

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Proof that music is as natural to us as breathing
I would love a link to the full lecture/discussion.

written by Defrost_My_Head

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This is *happy

If this didn't make you smile you are a stone or tonedeaf

written by Darkhand

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Invocations (happy) cannot be called by Darkhand because Darkhand is not privileged - sorry.

written by siftbot

| 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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^ taken care of, Darkhand. Good call.

written by arvana

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this was amazing! Nice video

written by Laekroth

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That gave me chills... really, it is just so happy, so beautiful to see/hear that many people just co-operating and creating music like that... so nice... so nice.

written by spoco2

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That is the perfect place to do something like that, because the audience, I'm assuming, is pretty intelligent (assumption based off the fact that this is called World Science Festival 2009). In another setting, say... if you tried to do this on the stage that Fallout Boy had just left, you wouldn't get the same result because quite frankly, the kind of person that goes to those kinds of concerts is a dried up, soulless husk of a human being.

written by Bananular

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A load of people going babababa. Did I miss something amazing? Wasn't this supposed to be intelligent since its at the World Science Festival. This is the kind of thing you do with kids in a nursery. It's called follow by example, remember and repeat.

written by Mazex

| 3 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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