139 = Music Down Where It’s Wetter and Throwing Darts Better

<p>🎺 What would standard instruments sound like if they were played under water?</p><p><br></p><p>🎯 What would be the average score of one randomly thrown dart?</p><p><br></p><p>📂 And there’s some Any Other Business.AOB.zip</p><p><br></p><p>On THIS episode of A Problem Squared we’re joined by a special guest! The musical (and regularly quite wet) musical maestro Steve Pretty tells us all about playing music underwater - illustrated with some very bubbly examples. You can hear more from Steve on his podcast <em>Origin Of The Pieces:</em> <a href="https://www.originofthepieces.com/"><u>https://www.originofthepieces.com/</u></a> and hear more from Steve playing shells here: <a href="https://www.shellectronica.com/"><u>https://www.shellectronica.com/</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>This is the episode of <em>Steve Pretty’s Origin of the Pieces </em>with Richard Sabin, whale expert and lead curator of mammals at the Natural History Museum, who shares sonic insights from the deep. <a href="https://www.originofthepieces.com/episodes/episode-31-earwax-echoes-and-entropy"><u>https://www.originofthepieces.com/episodes/episode-31-earwax-echoes-and-entropy</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>To find out more about Aquasonic, the ethereal underwater quintet, head here: <a href="https://www.betweenmusic.dk/aquasonic"><u>https://www.betweenmusic.dk/aquasonic</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>Here is the full Hermeto Pascoal video in all its glory: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbfNtDCHdM"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbfNtDCHdM</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>And here’s the video of a hydraulophone <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgU0OZkGhGI"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgU0OZkGhGI</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>World Darts Federation Playing and Tournament Rules for all the specifications used in Matt’s working out: <a href="https://dartswdf.com/storage/uploads/fb05b306-c92c-4f08-b512-affb092a1b3d/2018-02-28_WDF_Playing_and_Tournament_Rules_rev20.pdf"><u>https://dartswdf.com/storage/uploads/fb05b306-c92c-4f08-b512-affb092a1b3d/2018-02-28_WDF_Playing_and_Tournament_Rules_rev20.pdf</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>The fabulously detailed Data Genetics blog post on where to aim on a dart board to maximise point-scoring - A Geek Plays Darts: <a href="http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/january12012/index.html"><u>http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/january12012/index.html</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>Here’s more about the (excellent) book that Bec shouted out: Gemma Correll - Anxietyland <a href="https://www.gemmacorrell.com/"><u>https://www.gemmacorrell.com/</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>If you’d like to see Bec’s Work In Progress shows, her upcoming gigs can be found here: <a href="https://www.bechillcomedian.com/tour-gigs"><u>https://www.bechillcomedian.com/tour-gigs</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>Matt has extended his tour - and he’s filming the show in London in October - all the dates, venues and tickets can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://standupmaths.com/shows"><u>http://standupmaths.com/shows</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>Join us on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/aproblemsquared"><u>Patreon</u></a> for early releases and our monthly bonus podcast I’m A Wizard!</p><p>If you’re already on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  </p><p>If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. </p><p>Finally, if you want even more from A Problem Squared you can connect with us and other listeners on <a href="https://aproblemsquared.bsky.social/"><u>BlueSky</u></a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/aproblemsquared?lang=en"> <u>Twitter</u></a>,<a href="https://www.instagram.com/aproblemsquared/?hl=en"> <u>Instagram</u></a>,<a href="https://discord.gg/pt4WsfhMCY"> and on <u>Discord</u></a>.</p>