2. “The Robots” By Kraftwerk This song is what started the vocoder craze. This song sounds like a robot is saying different words and not singing actual lyrics. The song is about what it would be like to live in a world with robots and what people might think of them. 3. “Autobah...
Stars like the sun end their lives as highly compact white dwarfs, but as they shrink down into this phase they release clouds of gas which form a so-called "planetary nebula". This is a rather misleading name, because such nebula have nothing to do with planets. Related stories — The ...
We’re no feet experts, but shoes do play a part in explaining why a score is called a score. Sort of. The word ‘score’ is rooted in the Old Norse word ‘skor,’ which means an incision or notch. Today, it means ‘shoes’ in Swedish and Norwegian. Anyway, skor. To notch. The...
deep booming voices and dark music always seemed to be playing when they were shown on screen (Darth Vader, Ra in Stargate). I always loved the dark music that I only heard in movie soundtracks as a child. You see, Goth to me isn’t something that one becomes but something one is. ...
Joan winds up in the offices of Darth Vader himself, McCann head Jim Hobart, where she discovers that the sexism comes from the top. His disdain riles her into threatening to go to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and to bring other female employees in on the legal action. (She...
What SW7 won’t have is Darth Vader (unless they go the comic-book superhero route and say “He’s not really dead, he just looked it.”) Vader is one of the greatest villains to menace the heroes on-screen. Even my jaded self remembers the thrill when he first stepped through the ...
Every week during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place arrangements we are running a Flash Contest, based on the first Daily Creativity prompt of the week. The prompt is posted on Monday, and entries are due by Friday.
but that only makes us that much more excited to see what is coming when the film finally arrives. The trailer doesn't give away a great deal of the film's story, but it does give hints, and when we combine those hints with everything else that has been revealed, the picture becomes...
When you're roaming around a store in Texas, typically you hear some kind of music playing as ambiance. Just as you're enjoying a song that's on the overhead speaker, it's interrupted by someone spitting out a random code or phrase. It could be them reminding you something is on sale...
What is Suno? Suno first emerged as an open source model called Bark in April 2023 but it shot to stardom eight months later as a plugin for Microsoft Copilot. It allowed users to enter a single sentence explaining the genre of song they wanted along with a ...