Show HN: Encouraging STEM Using Advanced Math in Music
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On the other hand the production quality is awesome, beat is good, and voice is good. It sounded like a professional rap song.
@nfixx get in touch by email if you would like to collaborate on lyrics. I have lots of ideas for math topics.
Yep, using story-like approach would have given more meaning to the song, but one of the original motivations for this was to put enough references to math concepts in the lyrics, in a way that would encourage the curious listener to dig them up, and perhaps start to either relate with or love math.
This song is part of a bigger attempt at using the creative arts to expose our African youth to STEM disciplines, and to make the science and math more appealing to a population that's really greatly lagging behind compared to the rest of the world.
You might find this other similar project even more interesting: http://genius.com/Nemesis-fixx-the-3lite-hackx0rs-lyrics
It's a song introducing important concepts of Information Security to listeners, via a story of an African hacker that's in battle with an NSA crew. It's more story-like.
Yes, I'd love to write more music like this, and so will get in touch to get ideas and feedback on how to get even better.
Thanks.
To those who like this way of using music to popularize and celebrate mathematics, perhaps the other related project might even be more appealing: The Elite Hackers : http://genius.com/Nemesis-fixx-the-3lite-hackx0rs-lyrics
As I've commented elsewhere, this other song is meant to expose people to the concepts of Information Security (a very important topic in our culture and world today). It is a story of an African hacker that wakes up in the night, to find his servers under attack by the NSA. The song traces the battle that then proceeds, and in the process, drops many references to some of the real-world concepts encountered in real hacking and info-sec.
I hope these sort of music projects don't just entertain nerds and geeks, but introduce STEM concepts to a wider audience, using media such as rap music, that many youth can readily relate to, and perhaps even give more attention to than long essays and books - the attention spans of the young are getting worse, and so using such approaches as music to educate might make more sense for some scenarios.
https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Music-Counterpoint-Extended-...