Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth
- Music & Sound Studies
- Categories:Popular Science
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:September,2021
- Pages:272
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Review
“This book made me laugh out loud, and then reflect on my own place in the galaxy. While inhaling the authors' clear and elegant prose, I also showed anyone in my vicinity their genre-bending illustrations. Thinking about and listening to music will never be the same after reading this book! It would fit equally well in music theory, musicology, philosophy, and aesthetics curricula, and is a must-read for friends, neighbors, and aliens alike.”—Nina Eidsheim, University of California at Los Angeles, author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
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Description
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.
Author
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
Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Music and Monumentality, and Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought.