Episode 03 | The Forgotten Verses Of The Star-Spangled Banner
Release Date: 08/03/2017
Episode 5 | Elephant 6 Recording Company
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Hear how kids in a sleepy college town created their own music scene and formed a collective identity rooted in avant-garde home recording. It's the Elephant 6 Recording Company.
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Episode 04 | Weird Al's UHF
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A budding comedian looking to make the leap to film. A studio on the ropes. This movie needed to be a hit.
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Episode 03 | The Forgotten Verses Of The Star-Spangled Banner
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We all know "The Star-Spangled Banner." But what do you really know about Francis Scott Key? And what about the song's next verse? That’s today, on Signal Cannon.
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Episode 02|The History Of Video Game Music
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The history of video game music offers a look into the history of computers themselves. In the early days computing power was very limited and playing graphics and sound together was an expensive engineering and programming challenge. The Apple II in the late 70's could cost you over 10 grand in today’s dollars. Today we play games with sophisticated audio created by talented musicians and sound designers. How’d we get from dingy arcades to a 100 billion-dollar global entertainment industry?
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Episode 01 | The Golden Record
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In 1977 NASA sent the Voyager spacecraft to take pictures of the outer Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But it also carried a very special piece of cargo: a phonograph record containing the sights and sounds of Earth in the hopes that an alien civilization might one day find it and learn about humanity. Speeding away at 38,600 mph, The Golden Record is the most distant man-made object in the galaxy. It's a mixtape...in interstellar space.
info_outlineIn the morning, as the mist clears, Francis Scott Key witnesses the raising of the ceremonial American flag above the fort. The British had not taken Fort McHenry during the night and retreated to beyond artillery range. Francis Scott Key, inspired to commemorate the victory, begins writing a poem to the tune of a familiar drinking song.
That poem you know as "The Star-Spangled Banner." But what do you really know about Francis Scott Key? And what about the song's next verse? That’s today, on Signal Cannon.