playtherecords: simple rules for audience participation

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

simple rules for audience participation

Since a number of you have been talking about somehow using audience participation, I think you might find this video interesting. Basically, Bobby McFerrin illustrates the power of the pentatonic scale using the audience. Its a great example of how you can generate a performance by setting up very simple rules, clearly expressing them, and then working from that.