Opus Magnanimous the Podcast

Opus Magnanimous, History of the Universe

Cosmic Vacation  

After about 5 months of producing Opus Magnanimous, I realize that I am rushing the composition of my music, and don't have sufficient time to create the best possible podcast! So the new schedule will be every 2 months!

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BOSS ME 70 Electric Violin Patches as used in Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music  

Episode 11 of Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in Music is a tutorial or descriptive narrative explaining how I use electronic effects with my electric violin, and then how I organize or catalog the patches of effects and sound…

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Indian Astronomy in the First Millennium - the Zij Era  

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Post Siddhantic Astronomy during the medieval period in the Islamic World, also known as the Zij Era and Hindu Cosmology.

Just published the first draft of the Telescope Timeline. Only people who visit the…

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Episode 9 Aquarius and Gravitational Waves (LIGO)  

Gravitational Waves will move us and inspire some heavy music as we’ll be looking at the work of LIGO, the Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. 

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LINKS AND others SOURCES 

https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/aquarius-constellation/ 

https://www.star-facts.com/sadalsuud/ 

https://www.star-facts.com/star-names/ 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system/Climate#:~:text=The%20Tigris%20and%20Euphrates%20make,well%20as%20great%20diurnal%20variations. 

https://www.heavens-above.com/myth.aspx?con=aqr 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Aquarius-astronomy 

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw 

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Episode 8, Season 1 Aryabhata Space Telescope Battles & Nuclear Fusion in the Sun  

Discussions about Early Indian astronomy from 401 to 1201 CE. Battle of the Space Telescopes and Gaia reveals the past and future of our sun and musical compositions inspired by these. 

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S01 E07 - from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars  

Today's Zodiac Constellation is Capricorn. 

Early Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy cataloged the stars and used trigonometry. Today's scientists send a million pixel camera far out in space to L2 to catalog almost 2 thousand million stars and celestial objects 

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Episode 6 Plato & Cosmology & Quantum Theory  

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Here are the subjects I discussed & music I've written inspired by these topics tonight.

Opus Magnanimous. History of the Cosmos in MUSIC by Harris Shilakowsky 

What is Plato's view on the cosmos? 

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Episode 5 The First True Cosmologist & the Mother of the Hubble  

600 BCE 

Anaximander, c. 610 – c. 546 BC the first (true) cosmologist  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander 

‐ pre‐Socratic philosopher from Miletus, Ionia ‐ Nature ruled by natural laws ‐ Apeiron (boundless, infinite, indefinite), that out of which the universe originates • the…

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Episode 4 - Indian Explorations of the Cosmos  

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my tribute to Indian Astronomers, Cosmologists, Musicians and Creators of Hindu traditions. 

Includes a discussion about the measurement of time. Astronomy in rigveda. Music in Vedic texts. 

A preview of the Telescope Timeline. 

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Episode 3 July 21, 2022 Stargazing in prehistoric times and peering thru the mists of time with a new space telescope  

Going back to Ancient Mesopotamian pre-astronomy and the influence of ancient god worship, then jumping to the present successful images received from the NGST...the Next Generation Space Telescope. Some history about this new space telescope, some of the materials used…

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