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Rationalist music [RT]
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Author: u/_brightwing Feathered menace*
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/1xu39z/rationalist_music_rt/
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Score: 4
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Created: 2014-02-13T21:05:37
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The Symphony of Science, by electronic musician John Boswell. In his words, “..the goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public, in a novel way, through the medium of music.”
My personal favourite was hands down the Glorious Dawn featuring Carl Sagan. His son, Nick Sagan seeing it commented on it in his blog..
Boswell auto-tunes audio samples featuring popular scientists from science series and then scores it in with his original compositions.
Honestly though, I never thought I’d be able to rock out to Stephen Hawkings.. I loved Richard Dawkins’ sayings. “Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.” Just had to go get the book itself after that. It really struck me for some reason.
Have you guys come across anything science themed before? I haven’t been able to find anything else apart from the Space-ambient genre.
Comments:
u/CalebJohnsn [+5] Theoretical Manatician (23 minutes later)
Well there is always the Ballad of Smallpox Gone that was placed in the 'Sorta Rational Fics' section of the TvTropes Rational Fics page.
It's interesting to say the least.
u/4t0m [+2] Chaos Legion (2 hours later)
More transhumanist than rationalist, with some questionable physics. Really good though. https://soundcloud.com/thelisps/singularity
u/Paradoxius [+1] (a month later)
Same vein, same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aM7IHr8nko
u/GSV_Empiricist [+2] (8 hours later)
My personal favorite as well. Love the imagery of "Not a sun rise, but a galaxy rise." I think the only 'rationalist' music I've heard besides symphony of science is Nightwish's "Song of Myself", and even then, it's kinda iffy. I've heard a decent amount of transhumanist music, but I wouldn't necessarily classify it as rational, although I guess it could be classified as a subgenre.
Actually, forgot about Tim Minchin's "Storm", which definitely qualifies.
u/mindspillage [+2] (3 days later)
Not strictly rationalist, but science-themed: Loquat's "Time Bending" (lyrics).
Several of their other songs have rationalist-friendly lyrics--"Comedown's Worse" and "Harder Hit" are the two I think of--but aren't science-themed.
u/rthomas2 [+2] (13 days later)
I believe our fearless Eliezer himself referenced MUSE's "Butterflies and Hurricanes" at one point. It hits upon rationalist themes quite nicely, especially for a mainstream song:
Change
Everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called
[...]
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to save the world
And use this chance to be
heard
Your time is nowA bit general, but appropriate--especially since the titular phenomenon is commonly referenced in rationalist fiction. Personally, I hear this song whenever I think of Worm, HPMOR, or Game of Thrones. And there are other MUSE songs which may be similarly applicable: for instance, Madness, which concludes that the traditional romantic ideal of love--i.e., purely emotional/impulsive *and* fully irrational--is literally a form of madness.