A Cosmobiologist's Dream

I am an astrobiologist, sci-fi geek, and professor of everything groovy. I write about science, culture, math, history, space, and science fiction. Perhaps like you, I'm seeking a greater understanding of the nature of life and asking myself why all of this really matters. Come with me, and we'll ask some questions together.

Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Carbon Based Lifeforms Live at Ozora Festival 2017

Here's something blissful for your daily flow. A couple hours of Carbon Based Lifeforms , playing at the Ozora Festival last year in...

Friday, April 20, 2018

Data & Picard by Pogo

Ah, some days I wake upon this world and find myself in a funk of uncertainty and overcome with the unrelenting bafflement of a society...

Monday, September 11, 2017

Luca Stricagnoli's new video for Now We Are Free

I love Luca Stricagnoli's music! He's a fantastic guitar player, using all of his fingers to strike up beautiful tunes on his gui...

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Stairway to Heaven played skillfully on koto and shakuhachi - a stellar performance

"No stairway. Denied." ...Well not in this awesome video from performers Keiko Hisamoto, Masako Watanabe, Miromu Motonaga, and Ki...

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Groove like the sci-fi nerd you are with these sci-fi and ambient sound videos

Gates to Elysium, by Christian Hecker Getting lost in layers of thought about what else there may be is one of the fun parts of scienc...

Friday, February 24, 2017

The Soothing Sounds of an Arctic Icebreaker - 10 Hours of Background Noise

Here's something you didn't know that you need in your life, but you'll be totally happy to discover. The Youtube page Relax...

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Billie Jean, smoothly done, by Alexandr Misko

Alexandr Misko, a young musician from Russia, has been bouncing about the interwebs lately with some of his acoustic arrangements for so...

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Another Brick in the Wall on the Gayageum

This is so awesome, it must be shared!

Friday, November 11, 2016

Narcissi by Anatomy of the Sacred

Digging this tune. "Narcissi" by Anatomy of the Sacred has an ethereal background with a powerful guitar rhythm and strong vo...

Saturday, November 5, 2016

"Hallelujah" cover by Pentatonix is incredible!

Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" is lyrically deep and moving and has been covered many times. The Jeff Buckley version of th...

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Jamie Dupuis' Cover of Comfortably Numb on the Harp Guitar is Exactly What You Need to Listen to Right Now

Okay cosmobiologists, music lovers, chilled souls, and all around fun-lovers... Check this out. The harp guitar is a fantastic instrume...

Friday, July 29, 2016

Gimme Some Shelter from All of This Accounting!

AbGradCon 2016 was a success! The conference was a lot of fun and we heard about lots of great science that graduate students and early care...

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Lindsey Stirling's video for The Arena

This video is everything a post-apocalyptic nerd is after. It has awesome costumes, dancing, fighting, cars that appear to have been beat an...

Monday, June 20, 2016

Mark White on the Chapman Stick

The Chapman Stick is such a beautiful instrument. Ever since I first saw the character Gurney Halleck (played by Patrick Stewart) playing a...

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Red is the Rose of Loch Lomond

River Boyne at Bru na Boinne , Ireland (credit: Jean Housen ) "Red is the Rose" is one of my favorite traditional Irish tunes...

Thursday, April 7, 2016

"Enter Sandman" by SHEL, Delightfully Eerie

Colorado-born band SHEL , composed of four sisters, has a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" that just blessed my ears wi...

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. II), played Medieval Style by Stary Olsa

Stary Olsa had come to the public eye recently by producing a Medieval-style cover of Metallica's One . There are now a bunch of videos...

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Nothing Else Matters, on Sitar

Here's an awesome version of Nothing Else Matters , as played along on the sitar by Ashish J . It's fantastic throughout, but defini...

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Wow. "2 Gods 1 Guitar" by Laurier Lachance & Nathan Watling is Awesome

This is a sweet freaking cover of Eminem's Rap God :

Saturday, January 23, 2016

FINGERS Mitchell Cullen

I'm a huge fan of didgeridoo music. Every now and then I'll search around the interwebs for some new awesome didg music. Howeve...

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