World Science Festival 2009: Notes & Neurons, Part 10 of 10

[hinsecto]

que estupidez, la feria cientifica y no pueden editar un video bien

jajajajajaj

[opiaz]

For those who missed the best part of this panel:

/watch?v=Hodp2esSV9E

Seriously, watch it.

[wushish]

it shouldn't work... but it does

[jazzpsalti]

Would have liked to see more risks being taken by the other players, but that tabla player was engaging

[mananacl]

@jazzpsalti yeah, it seems like half the time they were just staring at Bobby wondering where he was going with it. But it was a great performance.

[rasengan80]

Just want to point out that when the guy (don't know his name) says "thank you and goodnight", the tone of his voice goes down to match his starting tone. It almost sounds as if he is speaking to end his statement with a perfect authentic cadence, which would make sense since he's ending the show, a song would usually end with this cadence, and they did touch on the subject of melodic tones in speaking. Very interesting.

[Shellewell]

@rasengan80 this is something i was thinking about when they were mentioning speech patterns. When you say something final like that people will almost always use a perfect cadence, i think because (like in a musical work) it is a good strong finish.

[Jazzxchange]

This performance is remarkable Bobby McFerrin's digestion of the nuances of the Indian music that he was exposed to in this panel is so so sensitive. His hearing process mechanisms are extraordinary. Quite a stunning performance from all of the artists. You can see, hear and feel their delight at his ability to wrap himself into their distinctive musical traditions. A genius at work. Would love to see an entire performance and have illustrated all their neural activity that is going on 4 all.

[hockeywifeca]

Tried watching the full thing on the World Science website, but it died an hour in. :( That musical interlude at the end is amazing!

[hockeywifeca]

It's not much better on the website. It's a 1:45 video but it dies at the 60 min part.

[damoose0]

the entire discussion is on the world science festival website

[DarkGallahad]

Anyone else besides me notice that the bit where Bobby shows the pentatonic scale using the audience to help him and through cues and wows the scientists is completely fucking missing from all 10 parts put up?

[LoneFolkie]

Gahh it won't play past 4.27! I want more of the discussion!

[toskoramone]

hahah, the sax guy just seems totally lost. the only guy with a chromatic instrument around

[Mattthewizard]

@toskoramone hahaha ya i noticed that too

[opus27no2]

I SO was enjoying Parts 1 - 7. What happened WSF? PLEASE post the correct parts. You had me in the palm of your virtual hand. Then it was like ending a piece on a dominant 7 chord!

[luishem]

@opus27no2 if it's a blues piece then i7 sounds coll at the end xD

[opus27no2]

@luishem True, true. I should clarify... It's like ending a piece on a V7.

[luishem]

@opus27no2 hahaaa yes, that would be discomfortable.

[morrisal]

eeeehhm... this is all messed up. blah. part 8? part 9? huh?

[jesusmann0777]

which one of these vidoes has the petatonic scale????

[imaginationscene]

5:35 to 6:00 is amazing, as is the whole piece but i really liked that bit. =) oh and please fix the other videos worldsciencefestival. Thanks. :)

[Crazyrat84]

amazing.. cant find a better word..

[MrJBoma]

Amazing performance, but I am wondering what happened to the rest of the panel discussion. The middle of Part 8 skips backwards, and then the rest of the discussion is lost.

[yobhsiFehT]

No kidding; you'd think the World's Science folks could get some mildly competent editing! :S

[leakeg]

@MrJBoma yeah me too, it's a pain, I was enjoying it!

[Felixinhk08]

@MrJBoma watch the full version in world science festival official website

[clarinetcat]

That was fantastic!

[bernardsteen]

fucking wow!

[KasibZ]

Soooo beautiful. Intelligence too great to be essentially captured by words. Thats Music.