Sci Fidelity
10 plays • Download

September 17 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: DEERHOOF (mp3)

  • Check out our chat with Greg Saunier from Deerhoof.  He talks about their new album Breakup Song, his newest musical inspirations, and getting frisked at MIT.

TRACK LIST

Gang Gang Dance - Thru and Thru
Perez Prado - Historia De Un Amor
Perez Prado - Peanut Vendor (El Manisero)
Deerhoof - The Trouble With Candyhands
Magyar Posse - Whirlpool of Terror and Tension
Sleigh Bells - True Shred Guitar
Deerhoof - Flower
Deerhoof - Fete d’Adieu
The XX - Sunset 

# mit wmbr cambridge boston greg saunier deerhoof interview noise band indie pop scifidelity john williams breakup song perez prado middle east downstairs

Posted 8 months ago 3 notes
19 plays • Download

September 10 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: The ENCODE Project (mp3)

  • Find out what the hype around The ENCODE Project is all about
  • Hear some genome-inspired music
  • Our third co-host Saul is back! See if he can tell the difference between a scientist talking about science and a politician talking about science.  It’s tricker than you might think…

TRACK LIST

Wave Machines - The Greatest Escape We Ever Made
Psychologist - Propeller
Careful - Frog Went a’Courting
Minus The Bear - Diamond Lighting
Chairlift - Evident Utensil
The Hood Internet - What’s My Noise
Laplux - The Hours
Javelin - Tryouts [Brenton Duvall Remix]
M83 - Steve McQueen 

# mit wmbr cambridge boston radio 88.1 genomics encode genetics music indie pop electronic new york times obama bush shwarzenegger science media

Posted 8 months ago 1 note

Mars Rover Soundtrack →

The Mars rover engineering team works on Mars time. A martian day, also called a “sol”, is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Each martian morning as the rover wakes up they play a song related to the events of the upcoming sol. Occasionally a second or third song is played during the sol in addition to the wakeup song. This is a tradition from the manned space program. Unfortunately robotic probes are not yet capable of feeling inspiration from music, but Mission Control is.

This page lists all the songs I know about, and the explanations. The frequently-repeated phrase “touch and go” refers to deploying the arm to examine dirt or rocks (touch) followed by driving away (go).

# mars rover soundtrack music robots nasa science geeks mission control classics sol martian day

Posted 9 months ago
20 plays • Download

August 21 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: The Mars Rover (mp3)

  • Learn A Brief People’s History of Mars
  • Find out what Curiosity’s favorite songs are
  • Listen to how our voices would sound like on Mars

TRACK LIST 

Freestylers - Cracks [Flux Pavilion Remix]
Gustav Holst - Mars
The Knife - Heartbeats
Via Audio - Hello
AU - OJ
The Beatles - Good Morning Good Morning
U2 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
The Turtles - So Happy Together
Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Camille - Mars Is No Fun
Mouse on Mars - Send Me Shivers 

# wmbr cambridge mit radio boston science mars mars rover space planets exploration nasa aliens venus acoustics space acoustics space station

Posted 9 months ago
0 plays • Download

August 6 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: NOISE POLLUTION DESTROYING THE WORLD!!!

  • Navy sonar killing the whales :( 
  • Noise pollution f***ing up plants :(
  • Lyrebirds singing the sounds of their own destruction

TRACK LIST

Block Party - Octopus [RAC Remix]
Paper Diamond - Power [Remix]
Blonds - Time
Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love [Seven Lions Remix]
The Hood Internet - Grown Up Has No Trigger [Danny Brown vs Dirty Projectors]
Diplo - Barley Standing feat. Datsik & Sabi
Azealia Banks - JUMANI
Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
M83 - Steven McQueen
Taken By Trees - Dreams
Madeon - Finale
Ferrari Jackson - LUSH 

# scifidelity wmbr cambridge boston mit radio noise pollution sonar whales ecology lyrebirds ferrari jackon conservation

Posted 9 months ago
10 plays • Download

July 23 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: MUSIC AS ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

  • Check out EyeMusic, a device that converts visual information into MUSIC to help the blind or visually impaired
  • Make your judgement on the usefulness of OMWAT, a ‘sound-based navigation system’ that steers you where you need to go using MUSIC
  • Learn about the crazy echolocation techniques that have been developed by the blind to see through sound.

TRACK LIST

Paper Diamond - All Green Lights
Osaka Loop Line - Discovery
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents
Bear in Heaven - The Reflection of You
ill.Gates & Mimosa - Never Alone
Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
Adventure Club - Do I See Color [Big Gigantic Remix]
The Walkmen - Heartbreaker
Alex Winston - Sister Wife
Work Drugs - License To Drive
Purity Ring - Fineshrine 

# apps assistive technology blind echolocation human echolocation music sensory devices sound visually impaired navigation devices

Posted 10 months ago
30 plays • Download

July 16 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: THE HIGGS BOSON

  • Learn what the hell is the Higgs boson anyway from special guest Adam Anderson
  • Hear some Higgs boson inspired music
  • Listen to biologist Ronn Friedlander and physicist Adam Anderson duke it out in a game of…arXiv vs snarXiv 

TRACK LIST

The Glitch Mob - Beyond Monday
K. Flay - No Duh
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Passion Pit - Constant Conversations
Deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt [Radio Edit]
Best Coast - The Only Place
The XX - Heart Skipped a Beat
Misfits - London Dungeon
Flux Pavilion feat. Example - Daydreamer
Noisettes - That Girl 

# higgs boson particle physics wmbr cambridge boston mit arxiv snarxiv sonification best coast

Posted 10 months ago
30 plays • Download

July 9 2012

This Week on Sci Fidelity: COMPUTERS MAKING MUSIC

  • See if you can tell the difference between real Bach and robot Bach music
  • Listen to World’s Ugliest Music, a mathematical composition meant to be completely patternless
  • Check out what happens when you mate sounds together to generate music from nothing

TRACK LIST

Pretty Lights - Gold Coast Hustle
Chromeo - I’m Contagious
Stars - The Theory of Relativity
CSS - Hit’s Me Like A Rock [Dillion Francis Remix]
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II [Soulwax Remix]
Matisyahu - Sunshine [Tune In Crew Remix]
Bassnectar - Timestretch [Original Mix]
Santigold - Big Mouth
Vacationer - Trip 

# AI algorithms artifical intelligence bach computer science computers david cope evolution math music pattern patternless science wmbr mit radio 88.1fm

Posted 10 months ago 1 note