The latest science song currently making electronic waves on the internet is this ditty, a mix of excerpts from the musings of astronomer and author Carl Sagan set over a downtempo backing track. ‘A Glorious Dawn’ even features a guest spot from Stephen Hawking.
Sadly (from this listener’s perspective) composer John Boswell has insisted on using that plague of modern pop music, the vocoder. Thus, Sagan is rendered sonically similar to Kermit the Frog. While this is not always bad, in this case I find it unnerving.
Below the fold: Previously on Songs about Science.
Songs about science part III: geology
Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08
Songs about science part V: singing scientists
Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’
Songs about science VII: ‘It’s a long way from Amphioxus’
Songs about science part VIII: the astrobiology rap
Songs about science IX: Rollin’ to the Future
Songs about science X: drilling’s killer songs
Songs about science XI: Charlie Darwin
Songs about science XII: Shubin’s song
Songs about science XIII: ‘This stuff is far!’
Songs about Science XIV – Nano vs Fire
Songs about Science XV: You can’t fool the children of evolution
Songs about science XVI: return of the giant isopod
Songs about science XVII: gene regulators mount up
Songs about science XVIII: ‘What up Einstein, you as smart as people think you are.’
Songs about science XIX: back to our roots
Songs about science XX: Isotopes, isotopes, baby
Songs about science XXI: imitation is flattery, right?
Songs about science XXII: Aldrin raps his Rocket Experience
Songs about science XXIII: The Fermilab rap
Songs about science XXIV: Singing Science Records