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Category: Music

Angle of Incidence = Music

12 April, 2009 (19:32) | Music, Physics, Tech | No comments

Ball droppings
Turn your sound up. Draw lines on the black screen to bounce the balls. Enjoy the music.

In Case You Groan, There’s a Bathroom on the Right

19 February, 2009 (04:59) | Music, Silly, Video | No comments

Instant classic misheard lyric because of our new president.
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But it’s no ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy, bathroom on the right, or touched for the thirty-first time

Come in Here, Dear Boy, Have a Cigar

13 February, 2009 (09:01) | Music, Physics | No comments

By the way, which one’s Pink?
The Factual One ponders The physics of… Pink Floyd?
What’s more interesting is the fact that the refractive index is generally not a constant. Within the same material it can be different for different wavelengths. Usually - but not quite always - higher frequency light experiences a higher refractive index. It [...]

Don’t Take This Out of Context

29 November, 2008 (04:57) | Art, Music, Video | No comments

In Context by Field Music. Ran across this at Ovablastic — I think the artistic approach of the video is pretty neat, and I instantly liked the tune.
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The pen leaves the drawing surface once, but restarts at the same point.

Something for the Résumé

28 November, 2008 (06:26) | Music, Video, Weird | No comments

Try and guess the song.
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Billy Joel, in the Library, with the Lead Pipe

6 November, 2008 (16:19) | Math, Music, Physics | 1 comment

Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord
The opening chord to A Hard Day’s Night is also famous because for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. Musicians, scholars and amateur guitar players alike had all come up with their own theories, but it took a Dalhousie mathematician to figure out the exact [...]

Say It Isn’t So

27 October, 2008 (03:57) | Music, Video | No comments

In the 80s music videos link from the other day I noticed the unsurprising absence of BLOTTO, a favorite Albany (NY)-based band from my high school/ college days (along with Fear of Strangers, aka The Units). So I went and looked for them on YouTube.
I must protest what I found.
This has to [...]

Time Travelin’ Tunes

21 October, 2008 (03:54) | Music, Video | No comments

80’s Music Videos
From the good old days when MTV played music videos, men were women and women were men.
Only one per artist, though, so if you want Ant Music, or even Goody Two Shoes, you’re out of luck; you get Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Dammit, Jim! I’m a Doctor, Not a Singer!

4 October, 2008 (06:05) | Music, Silly, TV, Video | 1 comment

Star Trek barbershop quartet. Words I had never seen in the same sentence, until now.
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Pickin’ and a-Grinnin’

2 October, 2008 (19:11) | Music, Physics | No comments

Physics, guitars and pitch harmonics at Skulls in the Stars

1magine

20 September, 2008 (05:58) | Math, Music, Satire, Video | 2 comments

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via Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom
Yes, I’ve been up to no good again. Together with my band, now named The Quirk Side of the Moon, I’ve created yet another parody song, this time of John Lennon’s Imagine.
Imagine you were in a world with [...]

Pegging the Geekmeter

15 September, 2008 (03:46) | Experiments, Music, Physics, Silly, Video | 1 comment

Someone with a little time on their hands, feeds some AC/DC into their laser (OK, technically the waveform of the music), and watches the trapped atoms “dance”
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The low-pass filtering means it responds more to the bass and drums.

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