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Re:Show HN: Encouraging STEM Using Advanced Math in Music by ivan_ah on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:00AM (#12514025)
I like. It would have been better if the math topics made more sense, so each stanza would tell a story rather than just name drop.

On the other hand the production quality is awesome, beat is good, and voice is good. It sounded like a professional rap song.

@nfixx get in touch by email if you would like to collaborate on lyrics. I have lots of ideas for math topics.

Re:Show HN: Encouraging STEM Using Advanced Math in Music by nfixx on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:16AM (#12514135)
Thanks for that feedback!

Yep, using story-like approach would have given more meaning to the song, but one of the original motivations for this was to put enough references to math concepts in the lyrics, in a way that would encourage the curious listener to dig them up, and perhaps start to either relate with or love math.

This song is part of a bigger attempt at using the creative arts to expose our African youth to STEM disciplines, and to make the science and math more appealing to a population that's really greatly lagging behind compared to the rest of the world.

You might find this other similar project even more interesting: http://genius.com/Nemesis-fixx-the-3lite-hackx0rs-lyrics

It's a song introducing important concepts of Information Security to listeners, via a story of an African hacker that's in battle with an NSA crew. It's more story-like.

Yes, I'd love to write more music like this, and so will get in touch to get ideas and feedback on how to get even better.

Thanks.