Presented by Shawn Klein
Airs The 4th Friday of the month at 17:30 UTC, repeated Saturday at 06:30 UTC and Monday at 16:30 UTC
A half-hour monthly show featuring interesting things and curiosities Shawn has found on the Internet, touching on a variety of subjects. Humanity’s first recordings of its own voice in the 1850s, the US government bouncing shortwave signals off the moon, an old world-war II era film about the use of radio during the war, auditory illusions, alternate musical scales, what noise does an ostrich make? And other unusual and rare sounds, These and much more are fair game on Odds and Sods.
This month, more audible illusions. This month we go back to my May 2018 show on audible illusions, and revisit the laurel and yanny controversy among other things.
These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone. This month is the first of 2 shows about auditory illusions. Next month will be a repeat of my May 2018 show taking you back to the days of Laurel and Yanny, but this month I'll play for you 1 single long video from 7 months ago by Youtuber Veritasium exploring some of the same illusions and a few new ones, and it starts with a trip to the great pipe organ at the Sidney Opera House. So get your headphones ready.
External links: all the resources are in the description here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn07AMCfaAI
This month: we continue comparing various periodicities in our universe. Color to sound, rhythm to harmony, and now we have the far slower rhythms of the orbits of planets converted to both harmony and rhythms we can hear, this is part 2 of that aspect.
External links:
System Sounds:
https://www.system-sounds.com
System Sounds Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOnxOJ0q03epTCbzwADIuA
Astronomy Sonification | Dr. Matt Russo:
https://www.astromattrusso.com
This month: we continue comparing various periodicities in our universe. Color to sound, rhythm to harmony, and now we have the far slower rhythms of the orbits of planets converted to both harmony and rhythms we can hear. We'll be hearing about Canadian physics lecturer, astrophysicist and musician Matt RuMatt Russo's efforts to do just that, and other methods he's used to sonify space for us.
External links:
System Sounds:
https://www.system-sounds.com
System Sounds Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOnxOJ0q03epTCbzwADIuA
Astronomy Sonification | Dr. Matt Russo:
https://www.astromattrusso.com
This month, 2 unrelated musical items to round out the Christmas season: The Unbelievable Story of the Carol of the Bells, which originally had nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas, and the famous cave in West Virginia that people have been playing like a giant musical instrument since the 50s, ringing the stalactites and stalagmites like giant bells or tuning forks.
This month, hear comes another classic episode. It's one that goes well with the last 2 months' installments. We continue talking about the various types of waves in terms of each other, but this classic episode from April 2019 points out how differently we perceive sound from light, as well as what sounds we might associate with colors. We hear a bit about how color works with your printer and computer screen, what a blind Youtuber thinks about colors, and how another blind person hears color mapped directly to an octave of sound, and how it makes his clothing choices quite odd indeed.
This month, rhythm as harmony, harmony as rhythm. music as Color and color as harmony. We'll hear the last four ninths of New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms from Loop on Youtube.
For this episode of his series New Horizons in Music - filmed live at Ableton Loop 2017 - bassist, composer and music educator Adam Neely discovers that literally everything is rhythm as he investigates the connections between synaesthesia, the Harmony of the Spheres, Isaac Newton, pitch and polyrhythms.
After we stop the video to be continued next month, I'll give you a different way to hear the major chord polyrhythms with a separate tone for each rhythm 4 5 6. Then we'll hear the 10 12 15 rhythm of a minor chord that you get when you invert the calculations of the major chord, here's lookin' at you Bach, which Adam doesn't get into and discover how much longer it takes to resolve than the major chord.
External links:
Check out more of Adam Neely's New Horizons in Music videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcZM94cb2UxtAqsfIWY1R4OrlkD323qd
See more from Loop:
https://www.ableton.com/blog/loop/
This month, rhythm as harmony, harmony as rhythm. music as Color and color as harmony. We'll hear the first five ninths of New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms from Loop on Youtube.
For this episode of his series New Horizons in Music - filmed live at Ableton Loop 2017 - bassist, composer and music educator Adam Neely discovers that literally everything is rhythm as he investigates the connections between synaesthesia, the Harmony of the Spheres, Isaac Newton, pitch and polyrhythms.
After we stop the video to be continued next month, I'll give you a different way to hear the major chord polyrhythms with a separate tone for each rhythm 4 5 6. Then we'll hear the 10 12 15 rhythm of a minor chord that you get when you invert the calculations of the major chord, here's lookin' at you Bach, which Adam doesn't get into and discover how much longer it takes to resolve than the major chord.
External links:
Check out more of Adam Neely's New Horizons in Music videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcZM94cb2UxtAqsfIWY1R4OrlkD323qd
See more from Loop:
https://www.ableton.com/blog/loop/
This month isn't just fun and games, it's the Paralympic games! In less than a week the Paralympic games come to us from Paris, and our own Devon from Canada will be keeping you up to date, but Odds and Sods for August looks into a few of the most interesting sounding sports. You might hear a match from a distance under the chatter of a commentator, but we're going to try to get a bit closer than that, while learning a bit about each one. We'll hear a goalball ball moving about with no other noise, then a match with no background music. Then we'll hear about Football 5 on a side, and hear the French cécifoot team, (that's what they call it in French), playing a little practice match. Then we'll hear a bit about judo adapted for blind players, and hear a bit of a judo match without commentary or too much crowd noise. We'll finish up with some info about wheelchair rugby which used to be called murder ball, and an ex All Blacks player giving it a go in San Diego, complete with those satisfying wheelchair smashes.
external links.
Paralympic Games Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@paralympics
Blind Judo Journey on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BlindJudoJourney
https://www.usaba.org/
on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@USABA1976
All Blacks on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@AllBlacks
This month, we finish up our flashback to 2017's sounds of space series as we hear the show from June about decametric radio emissions from Jupiter and the sun.
This month it's Sounds from space Part 2, repeat from May 2017. We'll hear the rest of Carolyn Crawford's lecture from part 1, the sound of Saturn's moon Titan from Cassini's Heugen's probe, sound waves from the sun and other stars sped up for human ears, radio noise received from various pulsars, and a recreation in sound of the Big Bang.
The solar storms of May 2024 were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10-13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25. Solar activity like this effects the Earth's upper atmosphere causing auroras, and various effects in plasma waves that you can hear with a simple receiver. Other planets like Jupiter experience these effects too, and they've been recorded by various space probes like the Voyagers. So this month I thought we'd revisit my sounds from space series from 2017. The main part of this month's show is a lecture and demonstration of various plasma wave recordings rendered into sound from Earth and other planets by Professor Carolin Crawford, Professor of Astronomy (2011-2015). Outreach Officer at the Institute of Astronomy and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and Gresham ...