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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Music Technology: Do or Die?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

How will you be receiving your presents this year - a CD, a voucher for iTunes or maybe even a Spotify membership? In 2014, streaming services made more money than CD sales for the first time ever and that trend is continuing.But it's not just the distribution of music that is changing; how musicians make music is also evolving rapidly. This week, we explore the influence of technology on one of mankind's oldest traditions - the art of music making.Plus in the news, the global response to climate change, the mystery of missing starlings and how delightful really is that red sky at night? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

The This week the evolution of music technology. Take a listen to these two pieces of music

0:21.5

here's the first one. And here's the second. Did you notice a difference?

0:40.0

Did you notice a difference?

0:41.0

Well, believe me there is is one and later in the program

0:43.7

we'll reveal what it is when we examine how technology is evolving the world of music.

0:49.7

Plus the global response to climate change, the mystery of missing starlings and how

0:55.1

delightful really is that red sky at night. I'm Connie Orbach. I'm Chris Smith and

0:59.9

this is the Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.coDuk.

1:05.0

UK. This week representatives from more than 190 nations have been gathering in Paris to participate in the 21st conference of the parties, COP21, and at the top of the agenda is climate change.

1:26.3

The aim is to pull together a binding political agreement that everyone signs up to and which

1:30.4

will, they say, limit future global temperature increases.

1:34.0

But what are the chances of this actually working?

1:37.0

And what challenges a politician is going to face in trying to implement the sorts of strategies

1:42.0

that will be necessary to keep a lid on climate.

1:45.0

First, I went to speak with Cambridge University's Julian Huppet, who, as well as being a scientist, is also a former

1:51.0

member of Parliament, whose campaign previously on environmental issues.

1:55.0

Well what we have in Paris is the conference of the parties.

1:58.0

All the players around the world, governments, non-governmental organisations coming together to try to work out what the options are

2:05.2

to limit carbon emissions, to try to make sure that we don't see warming of more than two degrees.

2:11.8

It's a slightly arbitrary figure, we know that two degrees is harmful, but it now seems

2:16.5

almost impossible to achieve no change at all.

2:19.1

So two degrees I guess is bad, but not too bad.

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