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The Vinyl Frontier - Jonathan Scott

The Vinyl Frontier

The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape

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Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2019
Bloomsbury Sigma (Verlag)
978-1-4729-5613-2 (ISBN)
CHF 29,90 inkl. MwSt
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'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph

Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape?

Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn’t from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos.

In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2 – a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them.

The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his team to create an aliens’ guide to Earthlings. The record included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box.

The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of NASA’s interstellar mix-tape, from first phone call to final launch, when Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of ’77 to a distant future.

Jonathan Scott is a writer, record collector and astronomy geek. He received his first telescope aged eight, using it to track Halley’s Comet in 1986. Having followed Voyager's planetary fly-bys throughout his childhood, he first got to write about the missions in 2004. Jonathan has written for Record Collector magazine, edited books about Prince, Cher and the San Francisco psych explosion, and penned articles on Nirvana, the Pogues, the Venga Boys, Sir Patrick Moore and Sir Isaac Newton in a variety of magazines. If he'd been in charge of the Voyager Golden Record, aliens would assume humanity had three chords. @thejonoscott

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Naked Pioneers
Chapter 2: Needle Hits Groove
Chapter 3: Musos v Scientists
Chapter 4: Uranium Clock
Chapter 5: Now That’s What I Call Music
Chapter 6: The Hydrogen Key
Chapter 7: Berry v Beatles
Chapter 8: Flowing Streams and Firecrackers
Chapter 9: Mixing and Mastering
Chapter 10: The Final Cut
Chapter 11: A last Supper
Chapter 12: Hello, We Must Be Going

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Appendices
Acknowledgements1
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Gewicht 414 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musikgeschichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4729-5613-3 / 1472956133
ISBN-13 978-1-4729-5613-2 / 9781472956132
Zustand Neuware
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