Huh. Heres a bizarre idea. Take a lecture, cut it down to the interesting bits, set them to music, switch it up a bit, and have it all repeat. Effective way to learn by osmosis while doing other stuff, or horrific abomination against both learning and music? You decide. :V
@Angle what sort of stuff would be amenable to learning by this method? rote memorization stuff?
@t54r4n1 Yeah probably. Anything that can be broken down into a number of facts in no particular order. though if you were clever, I bet you could encode more complicated stuff like this too. Link the progression of the ideas to the progression of the music, loop back to cover important bits multiple times, etc. :P
@t54r4n1 It would be very challenging though. XD
@Angle rather!!
@Angle This isn't precisely what you had in mind, but it's related! And kind of awesome.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HYvCkfLjQFQ
Conversation broken down by pitch and length into notes which were then used to perform a song.
Huh, so it turns out I was remembering something I'd already encountered: The Symphony of Science. Though that's more about philosophy than about teaching specific things - even this video about sound is pretty vague. Doesn't go into much detail on how sound actually works. :/
@Angle Better yet, if this works, train an AI to do it automatically for any chunk of text or audio you put in. So then you can just take your lecture, put it to music, and listen to it while you do whatever. XD