{"id":1626,"date":"2009-08-15T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimstolze.nl\/weblog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2016-06-16T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:52:24","slug":"bobby-mcferrin-musical-brainhacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimstolze.nl\/weblog\/2009\/08\/15\/bobby-mcferrin-musical-brainhacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ne6tB2KiZuk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bobby McFerrin takes the audience at the World Science Festival 2009 on a nice little muscial trip. &#8220;A demonstration of expectations&#8221; is what he calls it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just giving them two tones of a pentatonic scale (that&#8217;s 5, indeed) and by jumping around he&#8217;s not only the conductor but also the solist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leaving the neuroscientist on stage with just one very scientific question&#8230; what the hell just happened here?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Via <a class=\"permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/08\/01\/bobby-mcferrin-hacks.html\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> on BoingBoing and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Dutchcowboy\/status\/3072540326\">Maarten<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby McFerrin takes the audience at the World Science Festival 2009 on a nice little muscial trip. &#8220;A demonstration of expectations&#8221; is what he calls it. 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