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