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.
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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!
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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 -
Indian Astronomy in the First Millennium - the Zij Era
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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. -
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.
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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 -
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.
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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. -
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
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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