While browsing YouTube I found a video that took the great popular scientist Carl Sagan (RIP) and transformed his thoughts into song. The video was made by John Boswell of Symphony of Science. I found it ironic that I liked the use of the auto-tune feature, while I hate with a passion T-Pain, who’s Wikipedia article lists his “Instrument” as Auto-Tune. The idea of hearing something that Sagan, Hawking, or another brilliant mind said, instead of half-constructed ramblings of a musical artist is appealing. (For the record T-Pain and other artists may be making stupid music, but they’re making serious bank while doing it, so my hat’s off to them in that regard)
Out of random chance I happened to remember the name of the video and showed it to a good amount of people throughout the day. We all had a fun time with it, but nobody knew anything about Symphony of Science, or the idea of there being more videos to come in the future. Later John released We’re All Connected, returning with Sagan and folk, including Bill Nye. After seeing this video, I don’t think John is going to have a problem finding amazingly elegant and on-topic sound bytes to mix and match together. So far most of us like Glorious Dawn more than We’re All Connected, but the fact that I have to pause and think about it means both are obviously awesome.
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