fandomhigh | Sciencing Things All Sciencily, Monday

"Today we're gonna talk about the science of music," Philomena proclaimed. If she felt any shame about her performance last week, it was not evident in anything she was saying or doing. She looked straight ahead, meeting a random student's eyes periodically.

"They didn't used to have music in ye olde days, which was sad. Parties must have been very boring up until Mozart invented music in the 1700s. And even his music wasn't really party music, it was old people music, and music stayed that way for a very long time. Beethoven tried to invent punk rock, which is the sort of music you make when you can't hear for shit."

She shrugged. "Then the music bit went sort of quiet for a bit," she said. "Not a whole lot of anything happened. Not until the Beetles," you could hear the pronounciation of that 'e', there, "and then music sort of exploded. People tried to stop music before it got out of control by killin' one of 'em, but it was no use, the music genie was out of the bottle."

She mimed a bottle.

"It took science people to come up with music, I think," she continued, "'Cos it's made out of sound waves, which in Mozart's day, they would stuff in a bottle in an attempt to fuel the tiny sailboats." ... Sure, Philomena. "I think sciencing's best done if you can like, reproduce what science men before you have scienced. So today I've brought these instruments--" She waved at a wide ~~and moddable~~ variety of instruments. "And some bottles. You should all go out and try and capture sound waves. Make sure they're exciting sound waves, like Katy Perry sound waves. If you get any Mozart ones or Nickelback ones, you can throw 'em out, maybe burn 'em."

A pause.

"That's it, get to it."

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Musically.

Peebee

Ahsoka Tano

Gratuity Tucci

Peridot

Mara Jade

Look, you know Philomena by now. Are you really surprised?

Honestly, now that she knew not to expect any actual science out of this class? Peebee was just along for the ride, because this was entertaining as hell.

Ahsoka was beginning to suspect the only reason her brain wasn't dripping out her ears by now was that she didn't have external ears.

Edited 2017-06-12 15:52 (UTC)

J.Lo didn't believe Tip at all about Philomena, so Tip was transcribing the lecture today into a little comic for him.

He still wouldn't believe her, and he'd probably end up trying to make little sailboats powered by sound waves. But it was fun anyway.

Peridot would never be surprised by this class. Merely faintly perplexed that there were humans out there that were at least as stupid as Rubies.

Take a bottle and an instrument. Do... something with them. Capture sound waves. Yes.

Tip drew a little chart in which a harmonica got strapped to the front of a ukulele and then both were crammed into a large jug.

Not because she planned to actually try this. It was an illustration for her comic to J.Lo. But if asked, she would totally claim that she was designing it.