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

Legendary jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock stops by Sesame Street explain 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 want to defund PBS. [Open Culture via It's Okay to be Smart] More »

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