SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (penitential Mountain Goats cover)
SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by The Mountain Goats. SOURCE: This is a penitential […]
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SONG: This is the Sound.
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 […]
Guild Salute: MASSIVE Science Songs.
How did I only find out about this amazing, ambitious site now? It’s the Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database, affiliated with […]
Music boosts brains.
Scientific American casts a cold eye on music makers, and clinically reveals that yes, music really matters: To record brain stem responses, the researchers placed […]
SONG: “If I Believe It”
SONG: “If I Believe It” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body “, New […]
File under: Songs, non-scientific. (Not quite remixing Pocket’s “Sampo”)
You may or may not have heard about Pocket’s 2009 Singles Project, which involves Pocket remixing original songs from a list of indie all-stars (including […]
SONG: 64 Actuators
SONG: “64 Actuators” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum, 18 March 2009, as […]
I Love Charts
Oh, my. I may have to cover this. You get the picture. via Kung Fu Grippe.
SONG: Visibility
SONG: “Visibility” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/LiveScience, 23 Feb 2009, as used in […]
Guild Salute: Jesse Nesbitt
Creativity comes from limitations, yes? Jesse Nesbitt is writing and recording 100 songs in 2009. These are not particularly scientific, but this is certainly a […]
SONG: Mama Never Taught Me
SONG: “Mama Never Taught Me” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Can experiences be passed on to offspring? “, New Scientist, […]
SONG: Army Ants (penitential Tom Waits cover)
SONG: “Army Ants”, originally by Tom Waits (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Tom Waits. SOURCE: This is another penitential […]
SONG: Iguana Rosada
SONG: “Iguana Rosada” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular Science, 5 Jan 2009, as used […]
“Charlie” by Chumbawumba. A Darwinian folk song.
Chumbawumba are, of course, best known for that inexplicable “I Get Knocked Down” song. They’re actually a keenly politically aware group of protest poets, about […]
SONG: Isopods In My Aquarium.
SONG: “Isopods In My Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Antarctica Has More Species than Galapagos”, LiveScience, 2 Dec 2008, […]