Robert Krulwich : So we were enjoying the extensively huge Green Room, which includes a pool.
Robert Krulwich : I'm Robert and this is-- Jad Abumrad: Jad.
Robert Krulwich : Jad.
Robert Krulwich : Yeah, so you wanna, I guess the first question is what's unusual about us?
Robert Krulwich : Yeah, we don't believe that you should see anything.
Robert Krulwich : Well, I just, as a footnote, if you were living in the center of the Brazilian jungle and had no sense of this kind of music,
Robert Krulwich : Fireflies are something that we have all loved as kids, right?
Robert Krulwich : It could be tens of thousands.
Robert Krulwich : Tree after tree, extending for literally miles along the rivers, all flashing in sync like a Christmas tree.
Robert Krulwich : This was done by John Buck.
Robert Krulwich : What if he said there's the occasional sound of a tricycle?
Robert Krulwich : My elbow, because it's closer to-- Jad Abumrad: It's closer to "words", right?
Robert Krulwich : So we're violating some rule that he set up.
Robert Krulwich : I am going to lose my bird.
Robert Krulwich : Well, these sounds are all software developed.
Robert Krulwich : So, Zoë, your music is also, as we're about to hear is a pile up of sounds also.
Robert Krulwich : Boy.
Robert Krulwich : And like Jad is trying to evoke something specific, but he's trying to invent a vocabulary, as he puts it, in the middle to find that specificity.
Robert Krulwich : You do?
Robert Krulwich : But you know you're in the right place when the shape is present in your mind, or is it like filling a container to get to a shape?
Robert Krulwich : Oh, don't even try to describe it.
Robert Krulwich : And you think they're totally right.
Robert Krulwich : So now, for the very first time ever, is a composition that you have already played many times before.
Robert Krulwich : Oh, just go ahead.
Robert Krulwich : I was curious if you had if in the first iteration, you had made a mistake,
Robert Krulwich : Oh it does?
Robert Krulwich : And when it's at ten second, when you're having an OCD moment with the phrase, can you bury it?
Robert Krulwich : OK.
Robert Krulwich : Yet there is something about what both of you do that you both play with time in an interesting way.
Robert Krulwich : I'm making a presumption about -- Jad Abumrad: I'll speak about what I find fascinating.
Robert Krulwich : To play, I mean.
Robert Krulwich : And your hand.
Robert Krulwich : It's just the foot that's so interesting.
Robert Krulwich : OK.
Robert Krulwich : Your socks are slippery.
Robert Krulwich : Where do you shop for cello-foot, cello-feet shoes?
Robert Krulwich : So, what is it, the original intended use for the shoe that you use was jogging?
Robert Krulwich : Looking nice.
Robert Krulwich : OK.
Robert Krulwich : Let's see, you have to turn on the mic, there.
Robert Krulwich : The shoe salesman with her who sold her the thing will be along shortly, I think.
Robert Krulwich : I close my eyes when we were, actually.
Robert Krulwich : I do.
Robert Krulwich : We're not allowed to say them.
Robert Krulwich : There's also, I think-- male #2: Your name, the name of the foundation that funds you.
Robert Krulwich : I think there's another sort of a richer thought here that all journalism is a package and when it's done on ABC or NBC, you know the package very well.
Robert Krulwich : Extraordinary.
Robert Krulwich : That's fair.
Robert Krulwich : How much should we charge for this answer?
Robert Krulwich : Well, I mean one of the things that Google doesn't do very much of is-- we do leave the written word and the literal words behind