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Discover the intriguing depths of 'Alien Listening', a thought-provoking exploration into NASA's Golden Record and its musical implications for humanity and extraterrestrial life. This groundbreaking book delves into the idea of music as a universal language, stimulating questions about communication with aliens and the representation of Earth’s culture through sound. With an engaging analysis of the Golden Record—a mixtape sent into space in 1977—this title challenges readers to consider how music can be appreciated and interpreted by both humans and potential alien civilizations. The authors, Chua and Rehding, construct an avant-garde 'Intergalactic Music Theory of Everything', merging philosophy with humor to examine the nature of sound and communication that reaches far beyond our solar system. As readers journey through this philosophical exploration of exomusicology, they are invited to ponder profound concepts: Does music traverse the cosmos as effectively as language? How do we encapsulate humanity’s essence into a time capsule drifting through space? The engaging content and fresh perspectives in 'Alien Listening' make it a must-have for anyone interested in music theory, extraterrestrial studies, and cultural representation. Your adventure into the cosmos awaits with every page you turn. Important delivery information: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781942130536. Format: Trade binding. Year: 2022. Publisher: Zone Books.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781942130536
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2022
Publisher: Zone Books
Description:
An examination of NASA's 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.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781942130536
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2022
Publisher: Zone Books
Description:
An examination of NASA's 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.