I’m back on The Pod Delusion podcast this week. Or rather, my nationality-non-specific alter ego Professor Wilhelm Howells is on, explaining, in a manner of speaking, what the Large Hadron Collider is and how it works. You can listen to this week’s episode on the Pod Delusion website; by subscribing on iTunes; by downloading the MP3; or by using the player below. My bit is 25 minutes 49 seconds in, but you should, of course, listen to the whole half hour show.
I think I also neglected to plug my previous two appearances, so: I did a piece about astrology at the end of October in episode 7, and I guest edited episode 5.
I couldn’t let it lie. Having recorded my Large Hadron Collider Song the other day, I wondered if I could take advantage of my lovely Zoom H2recorder to up the production values a bit. Separating singing and playing the ukulele also meant I could do the latter marginally better – my inability to multitask different rhythms is why I could never be a pianist.
So, with nothing better to do this morning, I re-recorded the song with a more syncopated ukulele track. I added in some vocals – 12 rather than 40 voices – and then decided to fill the music out a bit with a guitar line (actually two tracks in the end). The guitar and the uke tuning weren’t quite together so I ended up lowering the pitch of the ukulele track by a semitone. What a cheat.
As a freelance scientist – er, ex-physicist – I can’t help taking an interest in the particle physics research planned for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And as one of teh internets’ numerous ukuleleists, I can’t help writing a short song about it and putting it on my blog. Happy Friday.
recorder to up the production values a bit. Separating singing and playing the ukulele also meant I could do the latter marginally better – my inability to multitask different rhythms is why I could never be a pianist.
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