Music, Science, Statistics

Monthly Archives: December, 2008

OddMusic.com: Listen to Strange Instruments!

Here’s a great site to browse: OddMusic.com.  In it, there’s a fantastic collection of strange, rare, and experimental musical instruments!  Try out the moodswinger: Strange and interesting stuff here!

Midnight Ramblers sing Army by Ben Folds

I’ve stumbled across a really excellent performance by a spirited a cappella group with an arrangement that really caught my eye.  Of all the others of this song I could find (save the Stereotypes), this is the only one that was particularly entertaining: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR5rFh9gBs[/youtube] Here’s why it works so well: These guys are fantastic performers, [...]

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Yuri Broze

Yuri Broze is a music guru and sciencehead currently pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and an MS in Statistics at Ohio State University. His current academic haunt is the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, spearheaded by David Huron. Yuri is an award-winning choral arranger, has written on a cappella arranging, teaches piano lessons, tinkers with websites, and smells hardbound books.