Back in January, I posted this blog entry about Evelyn Glennie, the deaf percussionist. One of the eye-opening moments in the video involves a challenge she presents to the audience: She asks the audience to recreate the sound of thunder/rain with their hands. The results were fairly disappointing, as the audience simply clapped their hands quietly, but overall it was unconvincing as rain. She then proceeded to reveal that children, when asked the same question, tap on different parts of their bodies, on things etc... thus showing that adults are often confined in the way they think and experience the world. This includes the way that we think about, and listen to, music... and she continues her lecture.
That kind of left me wondering what a GREAT example of a thunderstorm (with hands) would sound like. I think this next video would fit the bill. It's an acapella choir called "Perpetuum Jazzile", doing a rendition of Toto's "Africa". The intro though, is where it really shines. You'll see what I mean (Turn the volume up! It's fairly quiet)
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