Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in MUSIC

By: Harris Shilakowsky
  • Summary

  • Opus Magnimous tells the history of our universe by introducing people who made important discoveries or inventions that enable us to understand the cosmos better. Events and discoveries are each represented with original music composed by Harris Shilakowsky, violinist and composer, and explained and explored.
    Harris Shilakowsky © 2022
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Episodes
  • BOSS ME 70 Electric Violin Patches as used in Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music
    Nov 10 2022

    Episode 11 of Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music is a tutorial or descriptive narrative explaining how I use electronic effects with my electric violin, and then how I organize or catalog the patches of effects and sound settings so they can be recalled for future projects or performances quickly and easily. The could be useful for other musicians or producers who use multi-effects pedals.

    You can view the YouTube video version of this podcast here! https://youtu.be/DUQd9OJXNlk

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    10 mins
  • Indian Astronomy in the First Millennium - the Zij Era
    Oct 28 2022

    Please support this podcast! https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project

    Post Siddhantic Astronomy during the medieval period in the Islamic World, also known as the Zij Era and Hindu Cosmology.

    sources:

    https://explorable.com/indian-astronomy

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zij_al-Sindhind

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology

    https://www.hinduscriptures.com/vedic-sciences/hindu-cosmology/27472/#:~:text=Hindu%20Cosmology%20upholds%20the%20idea,the%20manifested%20or%20differentiated%20state.

    Just published the first draft of the Telescope Timeline. Only people who visit the podcast pages like this one will have this link!

    Next episode: We'll continue our exploration of Astronomy in medieval period in Islamic World & in our search for the music of the universe, we'll explore the search for Black Hole Vibrations

    The image used to represent this podcast episode is the Al-Khwarizmi sculpture in Khiva photographed by Davide Mauro "File:Al-Khwarizmi sculpture in Khiva.jpg" by Davide Mauro is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/?ref=openverse.

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    20 mins
  • Episode 9 Aquarius and Gravitational Waves (LIGO)
    Oct 18 2022

    Gravitational Waves will move us and inspire some heavy music as we’ll be looking at the work of LIGO, the Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.

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    LINKS AND others SOURCES

    https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/aquarius-constellation/

    https://www.star-facts.com/sadalsuud/

    https://www.star-facts.com/star-names/

    https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Climate#:~:text=The%20Tigris%20and%20Euphrates%20make,well%20as%20great%20diurnal%20variations.

    https://www.heavens-above.com/myth.aspx?con=aqr

    https://www.britannica.com/place/Aquarius-astronomy

    https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO

    https://physicsworld.com/a/ligo-upgrade-to-allow-almost-daily-detection-of-gravitational-waves/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star

    image: Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole thanks to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/index.html

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    39 mins

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