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John Boswell (musician)
The Symphony of Science is a music project created by Washington (U.S. state), Washington-based electronic musician John D. Boswell. The project seeks to "spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through musical remixes." Boswell uses pitch correction, pitch-corrected audio and video samples from television programs featuring popular educators and scientists. The audio and video clips are mixed into mashup (digital), digital mashups and scored with Boswell's original compositions. Two of Boswell's music videos, "A Glorious Dawn" and "We are All Connected", feature appearances from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Stephen Hawking. The audio and video is sampled from popular science television shows including ''Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Cosmos'', ''The Universe (TV series), The Universe'', ''The Eyes of Nye'', ''The Elegant Universe'', and ''Stephen Hawking's Universe''. Unruly Media, a video tracking service, first charted "A Glorious Dawn" on Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movement (music), movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), Brass instrument, brass, Woodwind instrument, woodwind, and Percussion instrument, percussion Musical instrument, instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a Full score, musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
