• Fire Up Your Kid’s Imagination At The ‘Science Fair’ (NPR)
A brief review of a new compilation album with songs from Laura Veirs, Mates of State, Elizabeth Mitchell and more. [Thanks to Karin Mack of UC-Davis for this link.]
• German Teen’s Math Song Videos Spread Throughout German Schools (germanpulse.com)
“Johann Beurich, an 18 year-old living near Dresden, started expressing his creative side by self-producing songs, but after coming up with a melody he had no lyrics to go along with it. In what many would consider a strange move, Beurich decided to use mathematical equations as lyrics for his newly produced songs.”
• How To Make Music From Your DNA (prefixmag.com)
“The personal genetics company 23andMe will take swabs of your saliva, isolate your genetic code, and then make music from that code.”