Jason Webley explains why and how he wrote the song “Bacteria” during the tech rehearsal for last year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. He and Amanda Palmer, who when conjoined form the supergroup Evelyn Evelyn, premiered the song as part of the 201o Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. This video was taken at Jason’s recent solo show […]
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Kate Bush’s pi
Perhaps you are familiar with the number pi. Perhaps you are familiar with the singer/composer Kate Bush. Perhaps, if so, you are familiar with the song pi composed and sung by singer/composer Kate Bush. The song lyrics include, mainly, a fair number of the first digits of the number. Here it is and they are:
Wine, Women (and Men) and Song
The Bibliolore blog writes about an experiment that involved wine, about 125 women, a like number of men, and song: A smaller pilot study had determined the four types of music: “powerful and heavy” (“O Fortuna” from Orff’s Carmina burana) “subtle and refined” (“Вальс цветов” [Val’s cvetov/Waltz of the flowers] from Cajkovskij’s Щелкунчик [Ŝelkunčik/Nutcracker]) “zingy and refreshing” […]
The gorilla song
Here’s another animal song. This is George Brassens’s Gorilla Song [click here for an approximate translation into English]: Brassens_Gare au gorille Uploaded by kitsch. – Explore more music videos.