SETI-X - 'SCRAMBLES OF EARTH: THE VOYAGER INTERSTELLAR RECORD, REMIXED BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS'
Formats
SEELAND532 - CD
753762053226
Details
In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts, fastening to each a phonograph album containing sounds and music of Earth. In 2010, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile (SETI-X), a dissident offshoot of the better-known Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, received transmissions believed to be extraterrestrial remixes of these records. The Scrambles of Earth CD contains the 70 minutes-in some 24 sound segments-that SETI-X has so far been able to reconstruct. The scientists of SETI-X, finding their colleagues skeptical and their institutions unwilling to vouch for or make available the sounds they had received, at first sought contact with the principality of Sealand, in hopes that this micro-nation dedicated to stewarding controversial data might channel extraterrestrial sounds to a broader public. With no response from Sealand, SETI-X, through a serendipitous Google typo, discovered an ally in Seeland Records, which has historically brokered the release of sounds of uncertain provenance but wide cultural relevance. Scrambles of Earth collects what appear to be "remixes" of the Voyager Record; although the evidence has yet to be fully evaluated, these may represent the first audio signs of alien intelligence. This account may comport with Hartwig Hausdorf's May 2010 claim that the Voyager has been hijacked by aliens, as reported in the UK's Telegraph newspaper: http://www. telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7722455/Aliens-hijack-Nasas- Voyager-2-spacecraft-claims-expert.html
Tracks
1. Uranium Nations / Hello Children
2. Pulsar Plus 3. Thin Dark Night
4. Ill-Tempered Wedding
5. Visit to the Observatory 6. Rushing Streams
7. Men?s House Stutter 8. Shakuhachi Mariachi
9. Just Cranes 10. Back in the CCCP
11. Countdown
12. Scrambles of Earth /
What Earthlings Are Made Of
13. Renaissance Faire Eject /
Gasping in Twelve Languages
14. Queen?s Queens 15. Fifth World
16. My Life in a Field of Sheep
17. Total Transmission
18. Psychlo Killer / Total Transmission
19. Fifth Dysphony 20. The Rites of Mars
21. I Am Getting Married in a Spaceship
22. Way Down 23. Interleave
24. Elegy for Pluto / Secretary General
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