It's two days till Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the official start of the holiday season. Stores are gearing up for "Black Friday" (Wikipedia link). However, if you're trying to ignore rampant commercialism and have combined technical /musical leanings, what better way to spend some free time over the holidays than watching some free engineering lectures from Academic Earth's Video Reading List: The Sound of Music?! While your friends worry about which new video game to purchase for their sweetheat, you could be learning ... from Stanford, MIT and Berkeley:
- ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language
- MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies
- Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, and Normal Modes
- Traveling Waves and Standing Waves (Musical Instruments)
- Copyright Applied to Music and Computers: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
- Nervous System XI
- Aliasing Demonstration With Music
Ah yes, I mentioned love in the title. Assuming you can't handle music and engineering, escape to Yale University and watch: Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love
As always, Academic Earth (and all of these lectures) is part of my Engineering Learning Portal, complete with many custom built Google Search Engines. Happy Thanksgiving!
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