Music is Instinctual
Bobby McFerrin gives an incredible demonstration of how music comes to people naturally. A crowd is coaxed into accompanying his vocal improv with only ten seconds of prompting. Watch the video:
I think it’s especially important to note how much enjoyment everyone seems to get out of this little experiment. The guys on stage are smiling, the audience laughs as they play along, and now hundreds of thousands of folks are watching online. People like things they are familiar with, and it is striking when something they have never actually experienced before hits that familiarity chord anyways. There is an intrinsic attraction to consonance, and maybe some muster behind the notion that music is a universal language.
August 2, 2009 at 9:08 pm | Blog, Thoughts | No comment