Listen to Wikipedia as ambient music & other lockdown diversions

Simon

https://www.dwtheme.com/

Ben

@Simon said:

@Ben said:
First time seeing/hearing this. Pure gold.

Yeah - it starts off slow but really kicks off halfway through. Bjork's voice - incredible!

I know and they really play well off each other.

Ben

@Simon said:
Carl Sagan Talks About Star Wars:

"Star Wars starts out saying it’s on some other galaxy and then you see there’s people. Starting in scene one there’s a problem, because human beings are the result of a unique evolutionary sequence based upon so many individually unlikely random events on the Earth."

“Human chauvinism” and “ anti Wookie discrimination.”
I’m glad that I couldn’t sleep. Made my day/night.
Have to go back and give another listen to that poem that he and Carson were reciting at the end.

Simon

Analog drum machine:

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Radiohead concert - Live at the Astoria, May 1994 (about 10 months before their 2nd album "The Bends" was released):

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Medieval Radiohead (Bardcore):

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Clair de lune by Debussy with a "step" sequencer:

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Something for people who like "music & cars":

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Nile Rodgers Tells The Story of Bowie's "Let's Dance":

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"Blade Runner" soundtrack remixed into a 1 hour 52 min soundscape:

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Tom Waits sues over corn chips.

Sounds like him but it isn't:

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Bette Midler sues over Ford cars.

Sounds like her but it isn't:

Simon

'Frank Sinatra' croons about Xmas hot tubs in 2020, more than 20 years after his death. AI strikes again:

Crawlingwind

I am not getting any sound, and their app refuses to install on my iPad. What am I missing?

Edit - just saw comment regarding Safari…

@Simon said:
Wikipedia is a constantly changing entity with hundreds of edits occurring every minute and now you can experience that dynamism as ambient music - really!

http://listen.hatnote.com/

Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions.

Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.

Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots.

You may see announcements for new users as they join the site, punctuated by a string swell.

Simon

Very intersting presentation about How Generative Music Works:

https://teropa.info/loop/#/title

Simon

Dot Piano is a web-based piano that works with a MIDI keyboard peripheral or with your regular computer keyboard:

https://dotpiano.com/

Simon

In a recording session in 1985, David Bowie did a few of impressions of other singers:

Simon

Steve Reich calling:

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"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" Washing Machine Cover:

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@Simon said:
'Frank Sinatra' croons about Xmas hot tubs in 2020, more than 20 years after his death. AI strikes again:

That sounds like it would feel to be crazy.

Simon

What's the difference between "Nu Electro" and "Finnish EDM"?

Or "TerrorCore" and "Float House"?

Find out here:

https://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

Simon

A door that sounds like Miles Davis:

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A shovel that sounds like Nirvana:

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Nirvana shovel 10 hour megamix:

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The "Millennial Whoop" is taking over pop music:

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Evolution Of Recorded Music (3 vid series):

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Gustav Holst invented the fade out:

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The clearest 1920s Louis Armstrong record you'll ever hear. Original transfer from the metal mother disc that was shipped by Okeh to Germany for their Odeon pressings:

Compare & contrast:

Simon

Here's 1,000 hours of jazz:

https://archive.org/details/davidwnivenjazz

650 tapes · 1,000 hours · 1,378 WAV files · 637 GB · 691 JPEG scans of cassette liner cards & literature.

Meticulously Collected, Compiled, and Narrated by David W. Niven, 1930-1993.

Generously Donated by David W. Niven to the Foxborough High School Jazz Program, Stephen C. Massey, Director, 2010. Archived to CD-Quality Digital Audio by Kevin J. Powers, 2010-2011.

Simon

A door that sounds like Chewbacca: