Blazars are galaxies whose central supermassive black hole, weighing millions to billions of times our Sun’s mass, blasts a particle jet almost directly toward us at nearly the speed of light.

This track sonifies a decade of gamma rays from the blazar TXS 0506+056 detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope between August 2008 and May 2018. The percussive sounds match the energy of the detected gamma rays. Unprecedented flaring activity began in April 2017 and continued for months. On Sept. 22, 2017, an observatory at the South Pole detected a high-energy neutrino thought to have originated from the blazar. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration., Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida/SYSTEM Sounds

Blazar Flare Sonification

Copyright (P) Butterscotch Records, 2015.
Copyright (C) Butterscotch Records, 2014.

AFRIKANER BARISTA

Here again here again here again here again
with the rush of revenants who need to get amphetamized
Some mistake you for Australian
You correct the ones you like

Here again here again here again here again
The wit is closely calibrated
to bring about a blushing smile
I know exactly where you’re from
but I wanna be the one you like

African African
Afrikaner barista
barista

Here again here again here again here again
here again here again here again here again
Bloody, bloody subjugation
the history between us now
But origin’s not destination
You gotta move on somehow

African African
Afrikaner barista 
barista

I wanna be the one you like


02 Afrikaner Barista

A hymn to that much-maligned state, features ascending key changes after each chorus bridged by quotes with regional references ("Jersey Bounce," "Hackensack," and "Theme from New York-New York").

I Like Jersey Best
By J. Cosgriff and T. Bernardi

Traveling down the Turnpike, heading for the Shore
A though just then occurred to me I never thought before
I've been alot of places, seen pictures of the rest
But of all the places I can think of I like Jersey best

Betting halls and shopping malls, good old Rutgers U.
Forty-seven shoestores line Route 22
The Meadowlands, the rootbeer stands, mainstreet Hackensack
I may leave for a week or two, but I'm always coming back

Chorus
The Pinelands and the Vinelands, Seaside Heights, Margate
You can have Miami, I love the Garden State
I've been alot of places, seen pictures of the rest
But of all the places I can think of I like Jersey best

We have horses, Princeton courses, gas stations we have scores
Trenton, Hopewell, Lake Hopatcong, Mantalokan Shores
Some states have their rockstars, but Springsteen beats them all
And our beautiful arena has Brendan Byrne carved on the wall

Lots of dineries, oil refineries, our highways make you cough
But Spring Lake Heights and Belmar are places to get off
Drinking spots and used car lots make the place just grand
If you want to pay a visit, Newark Airport's where you land

Chorus

Philly dogs like chili dogs they eat in Cherry Hill
In Woodbridge they make Haagen Daz, I can't get my fill
The Forked River ain't chopped liver, nor is Lavalette
There are no Jersey strangers, just friends we haven't met

The Jersey Nets went that-a-way, Piscataway no more
Had another winning season, and next year they'll win more
Our Giants could go all the way if they could win just one
But the parties in the lots before the game a really fun

Chorus

Well, our famous Parkway is the darkway home from Manasquan
You'd think for all those quarters they'd turn the roadlights on
And have no pity, Jersey City once again will shine
With Holmdel, Cape May, Phillipsburg, I like our state just fine

Chorus

I'm Hip (Please Don't Tell My Father)

I Like Jersey Best

Art is how we decorate space.
Music is how we decorate time.

Organize some noise today.

I Like Jersey Best

Larry Lang

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