Monday, October 12, 2009

A Glorious Dawn - 'Cosmos' Remixed

I first ran across this video on Bad Astronomy, but ever since then it's started making the rounds on other websites, so I thought I'd share it with you as well.  This is a music video that YouTube user melodysheep has created from various clips of Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos



What I love about this video is the use of auto-tuning to give Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking's speech patterns a sort of lyrical quality.  Incidentally, it also makes them sound like something out of a Kanye West song.

Having just recently rewatched the Cosmos series, this was a really fun way to condense Sagan's message for the YouTube-iPod-Wikipedia generation. There was already something poetic in the cadence of Carl Sagan's monologues, and the way melodysheep reconfigured it just underlines the fact.

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