Herbie Hancock Blows School Kids’ Minds with the Awesome Power of Synthesized Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5C4VF7xdcc

fabled jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock stops by Sesame Street explicate the inner workings of the state - of - the - art ( in 1983 , at least ) Fairlight CMI synthesizer and it ’s monochrome touchscreen monitor to a bunch of seven year - olds . Among them , a girl that would one day play Will Smith ’s cousin on The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air and go on to child - star obscurity . And people desire to defund PBS . [ Open CultureviaIt ’s Okay to be Smart ]

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