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The NASA Golden Record
Space, 05.09.77
In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched with two golden phonograph records, containing a variety of sounds and images selected to best represent life on earth, in the hopes that they might be found by extraterrestrial intelligence.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager records' launch into the cosmos. But if we were to do it all again today, what would we do differently?
This four hour broadcast contains the original NASA-collated mix of sounds, followed by a two hour mix of NTS listener-submitted sounds.
Tracklist
- Java Court Gamelan
Kinds Of Flowers - Senegal
Percussion - Zaire
Pygmy Girls' Initiation Song - Australia
Aborigine Songs, "Morning Star" And "Devil Bird," - Mexico
El Cascabel," Performed By Lorenzo Barcelata And The Mariachi México - New Guinea
Men's House Song - Goro Yamaguchi
"Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") - Bach
Gavotte En Rondeaux From The Partita No. 3 In E Major For Violin - Georgian S.S.R., Chorus
Tchakrulo - Peru
Panpipes And Drum, Collected By Casa De La Cultura, Lima. 0:52 - Azerbaijan S.S.R
Bagpipes - Stravinsky
Rite Of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, Conductor. 4:35 - Beethoven
Fifth Symphony, First Movement, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, Conductor. 7:20 - Navajo Indians
Night Chant, Recorded By Willard Rhodes. 0:57 - David Munrow, The Early Music Consort Of London
Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains And Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round" - Solomon Islands
Panpipes, Collected By The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service. 1:12 - Kuan P'ing-Hu
Ch'in, "Flowing Streams," Performed By . 7:37