The Numberphile Podcast

Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart

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Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart

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Nursery Rhymes and Numbers - with Alan Stewart

A team of composers and musicians have joined forces to re-imagine classic nursery rhymes with new counts, timings and tempos. It's dubbed Tuplets for Toddlers, and has been led Numberphile's resident composer Alan Stewart.

Check out the album on Amazon

On iTunes

Spotify

And on Bandcamp

An old interview with Alan can be found here

A couple of Brady's favourite videos scored by Alan include this one from Mt Everest and this one from Chile - but there are countless more!

Oh, this fire log one was good too

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