Auto-tuning is very popular in music nowadays, but it rarely adds anything to the music itself. Usually it just serves to make an otherwise terrible singer bearable to hear. On YouTube, however, there is an entertaining (and strangely beautiful) project called Symphony of Science that takes many famous popular scientists and creates auto-tuned songs that are really quite lovely, as well as bizarrely inspiring.
First up is "A Glorious Dawn," a remix of some Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, taken mostly from clips of Cosmos and set to that strangely resonating piano/synthesizer background. "The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature..."
The other one that my friends and I at U of C have really enjoyed over the past month or so is "We Are All Connected," which is faster-paced and includes some drumming in the style of featured scientist Richard Feynman. This one has a wider selection of scientists, including Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Feynman, and even Bill Nye (yes, the science guy, a legitimate scientist in his own right). "The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are put together. The cosmos is also within us; we're made of star stuff..."
"We've traveled this way before, and there is much to be learned."
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