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Tag: song
Obsessing about light, in a song
If you obsess about light, as many obsessive people do, and as many people who are fascinated by light do, and if you are prone to break into song and then explain without singing what you have just sung about, you might find yourself singing a song such as Sabine Hossenfelder sings here, and then […]
The Cultural Meaning of ‘Everybody, Let’s Tighten the Anus’
What depths has the anus song? This study takes a look: ” ‘Everybody, Let’s Tighten the Anus’: Exploring the Social and Cultural Meaning of a Korean Folksong,” Joonseong Lee [pictured here], Journal of Media and Religion, vol. 11, no. 4, 2012, pp. 216-230. The author, at California State University San Marcos, explains: “The immanent approach to the […]
Mousetube
MouseTube is, in the words of its founders, a web application that “allows the exchange of mouse vocalisation recording files“. There are, of course, other, unrelated kinds of mouse tubes that involve song:
Hey Maths! (Beatles studies)
Improbable recently drew attention to ‘Why the Beatles Succeeded but Broke Up: the Math(s)’, now we turn instead to mathematical considerations of the band’s music (rather than of the band itself). In particular, a paper in a Special Beatles Studies issue of the journal Volume !, 2016/1 (12:2) entitled ‘Hey Maths! Modèles formels et computationnels […]
Music about trout(s)
Professor Gary Grossman of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, US, not only writes about trout, see: ‘Not all drift feeders are trout: a short review of fitness-based habitat selection models for fishes’ in: Environmental Biology of Fishes, 05 / 2013; 97(5), he also sings about them, self-accompanied on a ukulele […]
A generator of lyrics and music from academic papers
“This work attempts to create lyrics from academic papers and appropriate melodies to go with them. We believe this system can also be modified to use different initial data sources, be it text sources for the lyrics or music sources for the music style. We chose academic papers as input due to their diversity and […]
‘Why It’s So Hard to Understand Opera’
If you’ve ever asked yourself why it’s so hard to understand opera, then you could turn to the work of Bertram M. Schwarzschild for explanation(s). He wrote an article on the subject which featured in the journal New Zealand Acoustics, 17(3), pp.15- 20 . (2004), entitled: ‘Why It’s So Hard to Understand Opera‘ “A frustrated […]
Songs for psychiatrists: The Ballad of Sigmund Freud
For your psychiatric listening pleasure or disturbance, the Chad Mitchell Trio performs “The Ballad of Sigmund Freud”: Here’s a picture of Sigmund Freud, equipped with a cigar and a beard: BONUS (possibly related): The group performs the song “O, You can’t Chop Your Mother Up in Massachusetts”, at the Lizzie Borden Museum (in Massachusetts):
The IBM Songbook (an analysis)
It’s been said that “The use of music in organizational management is a rare occurrence.” Rare maybe, but not unknown. A notable exception was Thomas John Watson, Sr. who was long-time chairman and CEO of International Business Machines – more commonly known as IBM. Authors Amal El-Sawad and Marek Korczynski of Loughborough University, UK have […]