Alien Listening (eBook)

Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth

Daniel K. L. Chua, Alexander Rehding (Autoren)

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2021
272 Seiten
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-942130-54-3 (ISBN)

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An examination of NASA's Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analyzed, listened to, and thought about-by aliens and humans alike.In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts contained world music and sounds of Earth to represent humanity to any extraterrestrial civilizations. To date, the Golden Record is the only human-made object to have left the solar system. Alien Listening asks the big questions that the Golden Record raises: Can music live up to its reputation as the universal language in communications with the unknown? How do we fit all of human culture into a time capsule that will barrel through space for tens of thousands of years? And last but not least: Do aliens have ears?The stakes could hardly be greater. Around the extreme scenario of the Golden Record, Chua and Rehding develop a thought-provoking, philosophically heterodox, and often humorous Intergalactic Music Theory of Everything, a string theory of communication, an object-oriented ontology of sound, and a Penelopean model woven together from strands of music and media theory. The significance of this exomusicology, like that of the Golden Record, ultimately takes us back to Earth and its denizens. By confronting the vast temporal and spatial distances the Golden Record traverses, the authors take listeners out of their comfort zone and offer new perspectives in which music can be analyzed, listened to, and thought about-by aliens and humans alike.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 51 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: academic standards • Ancient Music • Anthropocene • archaeology • Assembly Line • Astronomy • attempt • At the Core • Baroque architecture • Boredom • Cavatina • Cephalopod • Cetacea • Chronocriticism • Cognition • Communication with extraterrestrials • Computer data storage • Concept • Cordon Sanitaire • Corner of the Earth • Cosmic Vision • Cosmos • cultural practice • Culture • Data Stream • Day and Night (cellular automaton) • Definition of music • Didgeridoo • discourse • Drake Equation • Earth's orbit • Epistemology • exoplanet • exoplanets • Extraterrestrial Life • Gamelan • gamut • Gender Role • Gift Economy • Glissando • Gravitational Wave • Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team) • harmonices mundi • Harmonic series (music) • HERTZ • human extinction • humpback whale • Instance (computer science) • interlocking • Invention • Ituri Rainforest • Jacquard loom • Jaw • learning • life in outer space • listening • Loop around • Ludwig van Beethoven • Media Theory • Message in a Bottle • Metaphor • methane • Mixtape • Monograph • Musical Form • Music Is • music psychology • music theory • Nasa • National Science Foundation • New Universe • obstacle • One Piece • Organizing principle • Pixel • postage stamp • Private spaceflight • Probability • Quantity • Quantum Gravity • recording technology • Recursion • Repetition • sadness • Sagan, Carl • Savart wheel • Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence • Semiosis • SETI • shapeshifting • sheet music • space exploration • Spaceflight • space probe • Space telescope • spoke • starship enterprise • Statocyst • String Theory • tablature • Technology • tentacle • Test (assessment) • The Distant Future • theory • Timbre • time capsule • typewriter • Vibration • Vision On • vocal range • Voyager 1 • Voyager 2 • Warring States Period • World Music • Writing • Zeroes and Ones
• ISBN-10: 1-942130-54-6 / 1942130546
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942130-54-3 / 9781942130543