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fandomhigh2017-06-12 04:10 pm
whatisclocks) wrote in fandomhigh2017-06-12 04:10 pm
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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 wideand 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."
"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
A pause.
"That's it, get to it."
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