Hat-tip: Thanks to Alex Frazier for pointing this one out to us!
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Some people just have too much time on their hands AND too much fun! This song is an amalgamation of sounds found on a Windows XP or 98 machine. It’s hysterical, especially when you hear the Windows Shutdown sound…well., crash! This song was created using the very popular and FREE MODplug tracker software. The concept of this video/song is pretty clever. How about a MAC one…anyone?
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This guy is amazing. I certainly do not believe this is a fake. His technique is amazing and his musicianship is superb! Share this with your students who think they’ve accomplished something by beating Guitar Hero on “Expert”…
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This guy is unbelievable! He is using in-line skates and has arranged a series of bottles with different amounts of water in them to make different pitches when the strikers attached to his in-line skates hit them as he goes by! He sets the tempo via his speed and a “piano scroll” type music reality show begins. It’s Mozart’s Symphony #40, only produced in a way I’m sure Mozart NEVER imagined. This truly is amazing!
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Rosslyn Chapel is located in Edinburgh Scotland; it is believed to hold many secrets. Linked to Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the Prior de Sion and other legends, many say it holds the secret to the “Holy Grail”.
Recently, the father and son of team of Thomas and Stuart Mitchell believe they’ve cracked one of the codes, that of the Music Angel Stave. There are 13 angels holding staves carved in relief in the architecture of the Rosslyn Chapel. In the ceiling of carved arches, near the angels, 213 decorated cubes with patterns adorn the framework. Each cube has a specific geometric pattern. Thomas and Stuart Mitchell believe these patterns are actually coded notes.
Ernst Florens Fredrich Chladni, a noted German physicist was born in 1756 and, up to this time, was the first person believed to show graphic representations of vibrations within a surface. His technique has been used in the design and construction of acoustic instruments and has also been used to examine the specifics of the famous design of the Stradivarius Violins. This type of wave phenomena study is known cymatics and this was the “key” to cracking the code of the geometric patterns found in the cubes at Rosslyn. Each pattern carved onto a cube, Mitchell believes, is an exact two-dimensional representation of a specific pitch.
This new discovery by the Mitchells now calls into question the musical and scientific understandings of those who built the chapel almost 300 years prior. It is possible that the builder of the chapel, Sir Walter St. Clair, or his colleagues, were privy to sciences centuries ahead of their time.
