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Show HN: MindPop – Great Lectures Set to Ambient

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I looove this

My favorite Spotify genre for awhile has been "Wattswave," which is Alan watts lectures over chill/expansive ambient music

Thanks for sharing! It would’ve never crossed my mind somebody would make this type of music.

Also called TripHop.

If you enjoy this you might also enjoy Alabora - Foxall Pale Blue Remix.

It's the pale blue dot speech by Carl Sagan with music.

Glad you like it! I stumbled across it yesterday while listening to a Feynman lecture with DEFCON radio in the background.

Realized the content of lectures matched well with modern techno-ambient. Grabbed some music from SoundCloud to overlay Sagan and this fell out.

Will likely do more given the positive response to this and how much fun I’ve had listening to it.

This reminds me of the Symphony of Science project. [1] In particular, the original series of Sagan videos. [2]

  1: https://www.symphonyofscience.com/vids
  2: https://www.symphonyofscience.com/morevids

Shouldn't this really be: 1 Great Lecture Set to Ambient ?

I'm only seeing the Carl Sagen lecture...

How much information is actually picked up by listening to this compared to normal? I can listen to lofi without paying attention but Sagan isn't something that you can learn by osmosis. Or is the purpose of this to be an actively listener?

as someone w/ adhd, I think it's to calm parts of the brain while working on other stuff, or at least that's what it seems to do for me, I really want this on Spotify, so I don't need headphones.

Hey! Glad you like it. Made it for myself, happy to see folks like it too.

I have no idea how to get something onto Spotify, this is the first piece of music Ive ever “made” (just threw stuff together into Audacity).

If you have any advice/guidance on getting it there for you, lmk.

I do a dyi of this quite a lot just having an earbud in one ear and headphones on at the same time so one on the phone one on the PC and it will end up with a podcast in one ear with lofi on headphones in the background while going through chore todos etc. Not sure it makes any difference at all, as in the same amount of lite work gets done (and similar qty of rewind jogging to podcast as a task's demand on focus goes up/down); just it's a nicer experience overall. Maybe more deliberate syncing of the music to the content gives it a more cinematic quality?

This is a fantastic MVP, great work. For a next version, it would be neat to control the volume of the music. I would like to emphasize the lecture a tad more.

13 Minutes to the Moon is a podcast series about 13 minutes of radio communications up to Apollo 11 landing.

The magic of it comes from the music composed by Hans Zimmer making the podcast an absolutely favourite of mine that I can listen to again and again (like any good album.) Given that, I think will enjoy this and the other references given in the comments here.

Check out the game "Everything". Alan Watts lectures set to gorgeous music with whimsical and ethereal interaction.

There are a ton of these on youtube.

Align the "punchlines" to the beat changes, and you've got yourself a solid mix.

Alan Watts - Zen (Chillstep mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtmtxYxezao

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