Alien Listening Voyagers Golden Record and Music from Earth: Voyager's Golden Re

Description: Alien Listening Voyagers Golden Record and Music from Earth by Daniel K.L. Chua, Alexander Rehding An examination of NASAs Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, 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 civilisations. 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 analysed, listened to, and thought about - by aliens and humans alike. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Daniel K. L. Chua is Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts and Chair Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Beethoven & Freedom, Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning, and The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven. Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of Beethovens Symphony No. 9, Music and Monumentality, and Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought. Long Description An examination of NASAs Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, 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 civilisations. 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 analysed, listened to, and thought about -- by aliens and humans alike. Details ISBN1942130538 Author Alexander Rehding Short Title Alien Listening Publisher Zone Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1942130538 ISBN-13 9781942130536 Format Hardcover Subtitle Voyagers Golden Record and Music from Earth Pages 272 Publication Date 2021-09-14 Imprint Zone Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2021-09-14 US Release Date 2021-09-14 UK Release Date 2021-09-14 DEWEY 780.999 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134365557;

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