Ongoing History Daily: DNA as a recorded music format
Give it up to the guys in OK Go for continually finding new ways to be creative with their music. Their Hungry Ghosts album was once available on DNA. And yes, I’m talking
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Bored with collecting normal vinyl? Here are examples of abnormal vinyl.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Last weekend, I spent a couple of hours at the semi-annual Downtown Record Show in Toronto. I brought along my usual amount of gambling
Read MoreSomeone has converted COVID-19’s DNA sequence into music. Here’s what the disease sounds like.
COVID-19’s DNA sequence has been distributed to researchers around the planet in an effort to come up with a vaccine for the disease. But that’s apparently not the only way this DNA is
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This band is selling one million copies of an album in a spray can. Wait–what?
One of the great albums of the late 90s is Mezzanine from Massive Attack. When it was released in 1998, it instantly became a trip-hop classic and is an excellent recording to use
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Massive Attack is re-released their Mezzanine album in WHAT format? You’re kidding, right?
Whenever I want to test out a set of speakers, I bring along a copy of Massive Attack’s meticulously produced 1998 album, Mezzanine. If the speakers can faithfully produce the sonics of this compact
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“Smoke on the Water” Has Been Stored in Human DNA. Wait–What?
Since its release n 1972, Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” has appeared on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and all matter of digital files. Now, it’s been recorded on human DNA. And I
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Random Music News for Monday, September 18, 2017
Polaris Music Prize Day! Come back tomorrow for all the results. And now, the music news for September 18. Did a Chinese streaming music company try to buy Spotify last year? That’s the
Read MoreUsing Music to Explain a New Breakthrough in Genetics
Stick with this video. You’ll learn something pretty cool about the chemicals that make up your body.
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OK Go Will Release an Album on DNA. Yes, Deoxyribonucleic Acid.
Give it up to the guys in OK Go for continually finding new ways to be creative with their music. Hungry Ghosts, their latest album, is available on DNA. And yes, I’m talking
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Imagine This: Canadian Dentist Wants to Clone John Lennon from an Old Tooth
A couple of years ago, Michael Zuk, a dentist from Edmonton, spent more than $30,000 to acquire a diseased molar that once resided in the mouth of one John Winston Ono Lennon. His
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