{"id":15204,"date":"2012-06-12T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15204"},"modified":"2012-06-11T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:00:50","slug":"symphony-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15204","title":{"rendered":"Symphony of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto-Tune\">Auto-Tune<\/a> is a piece of software that was originally designed to &#8220;disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly off-key.&#8221;  One of its first major uses was on Cher&#8217;s song &#8220;Believe,&#8221; but for every evil use there&#8217;s a good one.  It can also be used to turn the spoken word into song, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorpulsemusic.com\/\">John Boswell<\/a> uses it to set the words of Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and many others to music.  His first effort was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=zSgiXGELjbc\">A Glorious Dawn<\/a>, and his latest is this marvelous remix of Mr. Rogers.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFzXaFbxDcM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFzXaFbxDcM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can also check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symphonyofscience.com\/\">Symphony of Science<\/a> website, where you can view the videos, download the MP3s, and read the lyrics.  Similar projects are forthcoming, so keep an eye on the site for future updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auto-Tune is a piece of software that was originally designed to &#8220;disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly off-key.&#8221; One of its first major uses was on Cher&#8217;s song &#8220;Believe,&#8221; but for every evil use there&#8217;s a good one. It can also be used to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15218,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions\/15218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}