12 episodes

Opus Magnimous tells the history of our universe by introducing people who made important discoveries or inventions that enable us to understand the cosmos better. Events and discoveries are each represented with original music composed by Harris Shilakowsky, violinist and composer, and explained and explored.

Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in MUSIC Harris Shilakowsky

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Opus Magnimous tells the history of our universe by introducing people who made important discoveries or inventions that enable us to understand the cosmos better. Events and discoveries are each represented with original music composed by Harris Shilakowsky, violinist and composer, and explained and explored.

    Cosmic Vacation

    Cosmic Vacation

    After about 5 months of producing Opus Magnanimous, I realize that I am rushing the composition of my music, and don't have sufficient time to create the best possible podcast! So the new schedule will be every 2 months!

    • 5 min
    BOSS ME 70 Electric Violin Patches as used in Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music

    BOSS ME 70 Electric Violin Patches as used in Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music

    Episode 11 of Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music is a tutorial or descriptive narrative explaining how I use electronic effects with my electric violin, and then how I organize or catalog the patches of effects and sound settings so they can be recalled for future projects or performances quickly and easily. The could be useful for other musicians or producers who use multi-effects pedals.
    You can view the YouTube video version of this podcast here! https://youtu.be/DUQd9OJXNlk

    • 9 min
    Indian Astronomy in the First Millennium - the Zij Era

    Indian Astronomy in the First Millennium - the Zij Era

    Please support this podcast! https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project
    Post Siddhantic Astronomy during the medieval period in the Islamic World, also known as the Zij Era and Hindu Cosmology.
    sources:
    https://explorable.com/indian-astronomy
    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zij_al-Sindhind
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology
    https://www.hinduscriptures.com/vedic-sciences/hindu-cosmology/27472/#:~:text=Hindu%20Cosmology%20upholds%20the%20idea,the%20manifested%20or%20differentiated%20state.
    Just published the first draft of the Telescope Timeline. Only people who visit the podcast pages like this one will have this link!
    Next episode: We'll continue our exploration of Astronomy in medieval period in Islamic World & in our search for the music of the universe, we'll explore the search for Black Hole Vibrations
    The image used to represent this podcast episode is the Al-Khwarizmi sculpture in Khiva photographed by Davide Mauro "File:Al-Khwarizmi sculpture in Khiva.jpg" by Davide Mauro is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/?ref=openverse.

    • 19 min
    Episode 9 Aquarius and Gravitational Waves (LIGO)

    Episode 9 Aquarius and Gravitational Waves (LIGO)

    Gravitational Waves will move us and inspire some heavy music as we’ll be looking at the work of LIGO, the Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
    Please support this podcast! https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project
    LINKS AND others SOURCES
    https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/aquarius-constellation/
    https://www.star-facts.com/sadalsuud/
    https://www.star-facts.com/star-names/
    https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Climate#:~:text=The%20Tigris%20and%20Euphrates%20make,well%20as%20great%20diurnal%20variations.
    https://www.heavens-above.com/myth.aspx?con=aqr
    https://www.britannica.com/place/Aquarius-astronomy
    https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
    https://physicsworld.com/a/ligo-upgrade-to-allow-almost-daily-detection-of-gravitational-waves/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star
    image: Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole thanks to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/index.html

    • 38 min
    Aryabhata Space Telescope Battles & Nuclear Fusion in the Sun

    Aryabhata Space Telescope Battles & Nuclear Fusion in the Sun

    Discussions about Early Indian astronomy from 401 to 1201 CE. Battle of the Space Telescopes and Gaia reveals the past and future of our sun and musical compositions inspired by these.
    Please support this podcast!
    https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project
    LINKS AND other SOURCES
    https://shilakowskyarts.com/opus-magnanimous-history-of-the-cosmos-in-music
    https://www.allure.com/story/zodiac-sign-personality-traits-dates
    https://explorable.com/indian-astronomy
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaveda
    https://www.urbanpro.com/indian-classical-music/history-of-music-in-india
    https://esahubble.org/news/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0qHm7h224
    https://esahubble.org/news/archive/year/2022/
    https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_reveals_the_past_and_future_of_the_Sun
    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Nuclear_fusion_in_the_Sun
    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Neutron
    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Weak_nuclear_force
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Cont_emspec2.jpg
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray
    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Sunlight
    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Beryllium
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_astronomy
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionization
    photograph of Portal sculpture of Sagittarius on the facade of Chartres cathedral by Portal sculpture of Sagittarius by genibee is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

    • 47 min
    from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars

    from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars

    Today's Zodiac Constellation is Capricorn.
    Early Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy cataloged the stars and used trigonometry. Today's scientists send a million pixel camera far out in space to L2 to catalog almost 2 thousand million stars and celestial objects
    Please support this podcast! https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project
    LINKS AND others SOURCES
    https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellations-by-month/september-constellations/
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almagest
    https://www.britannica.com/science/ecliptic
    https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/aa69c0b7-caaa-444c-bb3f-c377c07b8469
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almagest
    https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-cosine
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy
    https://www.google.com/search?q=twelve+tone+rows+history&oq=twelve+tone+rows+history&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l2j0i30i546.9000j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
    http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/features.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic
    http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/astronomy.html
    http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/features.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
    https://www.ucolick.org/~bolte/AY4_00/week4/star_properties.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
    https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/47354-fact-sheet
    https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/28820-summary
    https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/58274-the-role-of-dpac
    https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_reveals_the_past_and_future_of_the_Sun

    • 55 min

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