I am such a science fangirl.
I don't remember if I posted about Symphony of Science before, but if I have, I'm posting about it again because it's awesome. If you've never heard of it, Symphony of Science is a music project that samples science documentaries and interviews with a number of eminent scientists like Carl Sagan (astronomer), Stephen Hawking (physicist), Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist), Bill Nye (engineer, science educator and comedian), Jill Bolte Taylor (neuroanatomist), Jane Goodall (primatologist), Carolyn Porco (planetary scientist and head of Cassini operations), Richard Feynman (physicist and professor), Richard Dawkins (Oxford professor, author, and champion of reason), Phil Plait (astronomer and creator of the Bad Astronomy blog), David Attenborough (naturalist) and many others.
The result are autotuned, electronic musical odes to various scientific concepts 'sung" by the scientists. If you don't have a high tolerance for autotuning, then you probably won't like them as much as I do. I find many of them to be surprisingly melodic and coherent. Probably the most famous of the videos is 'A Glorious Dawn:"
There are currently 10 music videos in the series, all viewable and downloadable FREE from the main website as a .zip file (which contains a bonus 11th track). So guess what my current playlist is? Haha. My current favorites are "The Big Beginning" (in which Stephen Hawking gets a rather pretty refrain, which is saying something since his voice is a robot to begin with) and "Children of Africa," which celebrates humanity's expansion from Africa in a beautifully melodic way. The songs are fun to listen to, and the videos are a fun ode to many of these TV science educators and their bygone science programs.
The result are autotuned, electronic musical odes to various scientific concepts 'sung" by the scientists. If you don't have a high tolerance for autotuning, then you probably won't like them as much as I do. I find many of them to be surprisingly melodic and coherent. Probably the most famous of the videos is 'A Glorious Dawn:"
Click to viewThere are currently 10 music videos in the series, all viewable and downloadable FREE from the main website as a .zip file (which contains a bonus 11th track). So guess what my current playlist is? Haha. My current favorites are "The Big Beginning" (in which Stephen Hawking gets a rather pretty refrain, which is saying something since his voice is a robot to begin with) and "Children of Africa," which celebrates humanity's expansion from Africa in a beautifully melodic way. The songs are fun to listen to, and the videos are a fun ode to many of these TV science educators and their bygone science programs.