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☃️A Celebration of Axial Tilt ☃️ (updated)
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☃️A Celebration of Axial Tilt ☃️ (updated)

Can I interest you in some holiday synthesizer music?

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Steve Nuzum
Dec 04, 2022
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Updated December 23, 2022. Scroll to the bottom if you are interested in some free music!

With particular pleasure, I then listened to our contemporary music. (It was demonstrated at the end for the sake of contrast.) Crystal chronometric degrees converging and diverging in infinite sequences and the summarizing chords of Taylor and Macluarin formulae with a gate like Pythagorean pant-legs, so whole-toned and quadrilateral-heavy; the melancholy melodies of diminishing oscillations; pauses producing bright rhythms according to Frauenhofer lines, the spectral analysis of planets… What magnificence! What unwavering predictability! And how pitiful that whimsical music of the Ancients, delimited by nothing except wild fantasy…

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE (translation by Natasha Randall)

Fa la la la la la la la la!

-Traditional

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