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Sesame Street 12 song

Sesame Street 12 song

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Charles Cornell sat down with the deceptively simple song about counting to 12. You almost certain know this song if you were a kid between 1977 and 2002.

It was written in 1976 by Walt Kraemer, arranged by Ed Bogas, and vocals were performed by the Pointer Sisters. Yes, the actual Pointer Sisters. It first appeared on Sesame Street in Season 8 which aired in1977. It appeared continually until 2002. Andy Narell plays the steel drums for numbers 2, 4, 9, and 12. Mel Martin plays the soprano sax bits for numbers 5, 6, 7, and 10.

Called the Pinball Number Count on Sesame Street, Cornell peals back the surprising layers of complexity. Odd time signatures (7/4 or pairs of 4/4 + 3/4), funky chord compositions, and famous musicians that had no business being on a kids show. It’s definitely fun watching a musician pull apart this little masterpiece.

More details about the song from someone that interviewed Walt Kraemer about this song can be found here.

Or, you can play the Number Count pinball game from the Sesame Street website.

AI reconstructing songs from brain scans

AI reconstructing songs from brain scans

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The 15-second audio clip sounds like a muffled version of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall played underwater. Except Pink Floyd didn’t perform any of the music in the clip. Instead, the track was captured by a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, who looked at the brain activity of more than two dozen people who listened to the song.

That data was then decoded by a machine learning model and reconstructed into audio — marking the first time researchers have been able to re-create a song from neural signals.

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Waking up to Pure Imagination

Waking up to Pure Imagination

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One of the best arrangements I’ve ever heard. Performed as the morning wake-up call, the sublime harmonics of the euphoniums, balance of the horns, and acoustics is absolutely magical. If I was woken up to this, I would think I was waking up in heaven.

Jersey Surf is a world class drum and marching corps. There is the huge DCI (Drum Corps International) competition every year in Indianapolis and my guess is this is the band spending the night hosted in the local gym at George Washington Technical High School in Indy where this was shot.

Riffusion

Riffusion

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Riffusion (Riff-fusion) is a music AI that you type in prompts and it generates music for you. It’s not going to win any awards anytime soon but it does seem to handle smooth and electronic tunes pretty well. Honestly, if I heard some of this in an elevator, I doubt I would notice.

One more step towards our automatically generated content future.

gigachad bari sax – where’s he now?

gigachad bari sax – where’s he now?

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I remember clipping this video of a random busker playing some funky bari sax in New York subways about 10 or so years back. I wonder whatever happened to that guy?

There he is. Looks like Leo was recently at the Royal Albert Hall in London playing front man on the song Moanin’ at the BBC Proms.