The one that bears his name:
That’s where electronic music began.
Music
Written By: grantb on November 24, 2011
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Written By: grantb on November 23, 2011
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SONG: “Shining Stone (Calcite Double Refraction).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Magical Viking stone may be real”, The Telegraph, 2 Nov 2011, as used in the post “How Vikings found the sun”.
ABSTRACT: Viking navigators. I wanted to make a song that sounded like a saga. Like an ancestral [...]
Written By: grantb on November 14, 2011
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That’s how The Telegraph puts it. “Boffins” (a lovely word) helped the band Marconi Union design a song so relaxing, you shouldn’t put it on your car stereo:
Dr David Lewis-Hodgson, from Mindlab International, which conducted the research, said: “The results clearly show that the track induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested.
“Brain [...]
Written By: grantb on October 23, 2011
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SONG: “Move It Close to You.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed man touch girlfriend”, CBS News, 10 Oct 2011, as used in the post “Touching robot fingers”.
ABSTRACT: It’s funny – whenever I play this song with just an acoustic guitar, it kind of [...]
Written By: grantb on October 11, 2011
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Giant Squid is a doom metal/sludge rock band (with a cello) that writes songs about humpback whale tongues and the violent mating habits of sharks.
Plus, their songs have marine species’ Latin names as subtitles. Plus plus they have T-shirts based on Ernst Haeckel illustrations.
Their latest album is only five tracks long, but goes on for 35 very [...]
Written By: grantb on September 23, 2011
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SONG: “Turn Me Inside Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Gut instinct: Tantalising evidence that intestinal bacteria can influence mood”, The Economist, 3 Sep 2011, and “Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?”, Wired, 26 Aug 11,as used in the posts “Antibiotics: not so good for you” [...]
Written By: grantb on September 6, 2011
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… that Brian May, member of Queen, the man who wrote “We Will Rock You” and the soundtrack to Flash Gordon, took time out from touring and recording to earn a doctorate in astrophysics?
His thesis was entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud. He’s also co-written books on astronomy aimed at the less [...]
Written By: grantb on August 24, 2011
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Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates by Squid Pro Crow
So.
If you’ve noticed me referring obliquely to a “special project” lately, or to “having a thing” that’s taking up my time since April or so, this is it. The thing.
This is what I’ve been working on for the past few months. Just a taste. There’s more to come. [...]
Written By: grantb on August 23, 2011
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SONG: “One In Ten.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas”, ScienceBlog, 25 July 2011, as used in the post “The math of the madness of crowds”.
ABSTRACT: This seemed to be the story that I told people about the [...]
