• 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.

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

    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
  • Aryabhata Space Telescope Battles & Nuclear Fusion in the Sun
    Sep 29 2022

    Discussions about Early Indian astronomy from 401 to 1201 CE. Battle of the Space Telescopes and Gaia reveals the past and future of our sun and musical compositions inspired by these.

    Please support this podcast!

    https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project

    LINKS AND other SOURCES

    https://shilakowskyarts.com/opus-magnanimous-history-of-the-cosmos-in-music

    https://www.allure.com/story/zodiac-sign-personality-traits-dates

    https://explorable.com/indian-astronomy

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

    https://www.urbanpro.com/indian-classical-music/history-of-music-in-india

    https://esahubble.org/news/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0qHm7h224

    https://esahubble.org/news/archive/year/2022/

    https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_reveals_the_past_and_future_of_the_Sun

    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Nuclear_fusion_in_the_Sun

    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Neutron

    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Weak_nuclear_force

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Cont_emspec2.jpg

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

    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Sunlight

    https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Beryllium

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_astronomy

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

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

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

    photograph of Portal sculpture of Sagittarius on the facade of Chartres cathedral by Portal sculpture of Sagittarius by genibee is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

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    48 mins
  • from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars
    Sep 15 2022

    Today's Zodiac Constellation is Capricorn.

    Early Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy cataloged the stars and used trigonometry. Today's scientists send a million pixel camera far out in space to L2 to catalog almost 2 thousand million stars and celestial objects

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

    LINKS AND others SOURCES

    https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellations-by-month/september-constellations/

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almagest

    https://www.britannica.com/science/ecliptic

    https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/aa69c0b7-caaa-444c-bb3f-c377c07b8469

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almagest

    https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-cosine

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy

    https://www.google.com/search?q=twelve+tone+rows+history&oq=twelve+tone+rows+history&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l2j0i30i546.9000j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/features.html

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

    http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/astronomy.html

    http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/features.html

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

    https://www.ucolick.org/~bolte/AY4_00/week4/star_properties.html

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

    https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/47354-fact-sheet

    https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/28820-summary

    https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/58274-the-role-of-dpac

    https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_reveals_the_past_and_future_of_the_Sun

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    55 mins
  • Episode 6 Plato & Cosmology & Quantum Theory
    Sep 1 2022

    What is Plato's view on the cosmos?

    Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions

    How did Plato think the universe was created? (The Earth is a buncha cubes)

    The Creation of the World

    Plato's Universe

    Plato's Influence on Twentieth Century Thinkers

    Plato's Mathematical model of the Universe – Space and Time

    How is quantum theory used today?

    Aristotle's Influences on people from the Middle Ages to the Present

    The Gaia Project

    Fun with the Zodiac

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Episode 5 The First True Cosmologist and the Mother of Hubble
    Aug 18 2022

    Support the Opus Magnanimous Project

    To see our sources, visithttps://shilakowskyarts.com/opus-magnanimous-history-of-the-cosmos-in-music/blog/episode-5-the-first-true-cosmologist-the-mother-of-the-hubble

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    1 hr
  • Episode 4 Indian Explorations of the Cosmos
    Aug 3 2022

    my tribute to Indian Astronomers, Cosmologists, Musicians and Creators of Hindu traditions.

    Includes a discussion about the measurement of time. Astronomy in rigveda. Music in Vedic texts.

    A preview of the Telescope Timeline.

    Support the Opus Magnanimous project by becoming a subscriber! https://shilakowskyarts.com/support-the-opus-magnanimous-project-by-subscribing

    sources used:

    Astronomy in rigveda & The Jyotisa Vedang; https://explorable.com/indian-astronomy

    the Vedic Period: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_period

    https://archive.org/details/VedangaJyotisha/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater

    https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/08/28/when-do-the-planets-in-our-solar-system-all-line-up/

    and https://www.livescience.com/2022-peak-planetary-alignment

    Vedanga Jyotisha:

    https://www.hindu-blog.com/2019/02/lagadha-maharishi-hindu-astronomer.html

    about Yuga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga#:~:text=A%20yuga%2C%20in%20Hinduism%2C%20is,(joining%20of%20two%20things).

    measuring time… https://nrich.maths.org/6070

    What is Time? https://physics.mit.edu/news/the-challenge-of-measuring-time/

    music of the vedic texts…

    https://www.chandraveena.com/blog/history-of-indian-music/

    Basic concepts of Aadi Tal (Indian drumming rhythms): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbKOT4mVxpw

    Contemporary Indian Space Program: https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/chandrayaan-1

    a preview of the Telescope Timeline, I’d like to share this Nice history of telescopes

    https://interestingengineering.com/science/a-brief-history-of-the-telescope-from-1608-to-gamma-rays

    for next Episode: Nancy Grace Roman Will be Launching on a Falcon Heavy Rocket

    Text of the podcast will be available later in the week.

    The image of the ISRO rocket launch can be found on NASA.gov here https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-08pd3405

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    1 hr