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 ...
This eerie recording, displaying an amazing range of variations in both frequency and time, is derived from the planet’s radio emissions. These are closely related to Saturn's aurora, which, like the Earth’s, occur around the poles of the planet. Landers with microphones When NASA’s ...
Every major league baseball player has what is called a “Walk-up Song”. It's the anthem played in the stadium as the player is walking from the on-deck circle and getting ready to bat. It creates the swagger, the identity for the player. What is the most played song at sporting ev...
What is a musical score? What is a musical score used for? Is the score the same as the soundtrack? Why is it called a score? What makes a great musical score? How do you create a musical score? Do you need a musical score?
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. ...
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 ...
Street Fighter: The Movie — What went wrong by Chris PlanteMar 10, 2014, 11:15 PM GMT+8 Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. The fli...
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.
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 ...