Okay, so I was watching the World Science Festival and Bobby does this song with the audience.... what's the little teedeelee doo bit he sings?

It is REALLY familiar to me!
http://vimeo.com/5732745

8/19/2009 12:32:57 PM

Dang, nothing.

8/25/2009 11:07:24 AM

i don't think it's anything particular actually

8/25/2009 1:21:46 PM

that was awesome

8/25/2009 2:17:04 PM

that was very cool

8/25/2009 2:23:57 PM

cool....

8/25/2009 2:27:54 PM

reminds me of http://www.ted.com/

8/25/2009 2:34:35 PM

yeah, that's what I thought of when the video started. He should expand that idea and do a longer TED presentation and see how far he could take the audience participation, like with multiple people dancing on stage or see how far the audience's predictive power would go

8/25/2009 2:48:11 PM

was the audience filled with only people who know music? it sounded too good to be a room of just anybody, especially when he jumped to places he hadn't given them a note for

8/25/2009 3:50:23 PM

The point is that the pentatonic scale is ingrained in humans (we can argue it's only ingrained in westerners, and only westerners from certain regions, but that's a separate argument) and they naturally know what note is next based on hearing it over time and the natural mathematical spacing of the notes.

8/25/2009 3:55:47 PM

^^ i think that's the point...the pentatonic scale is fairly universal and most people "know" it even if they don't "know" music

[Edited on August 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM. Reason : ^ you beat me by one second ]

8/25/2009 3:55:48 PM

Quote :

"it sounded too good to be a room of just anybody"

If you record a big enough church singing a hymn where everyone is mostly keeping the same time (or the words are clear and concise) then it'll sound decent.

Any large enough group in a decent sounding room will sound, well, decent.

Also, as a guess, in a situation like that the ones more likely to be vocalizing are the ones who like doing it, and they're naturally going to sound better.

8/25/2009 4:42:29 PM