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by Jonathan Scott


  Druyan, A. 1978. The Sounds of Earth. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Ferris, T. 1978. Voyager’s Music. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Lomberg, J. 1978. Pictures of Earth. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Poundstone, W. 1999. Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos. Henry Holt, New York

  Salzman Sagan, L. 1978. A Voyager’s Greetings. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Sagan, C. 1978. For Future Times and Beings. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  — & Druyan, A. 1997. Epilogue. Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium. Random House, New York

  Science Friday. 16 September 2016. ‘How To Make A Golden Record’ hosted by Ira Flatow. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how-to-make-a-golden-record/

  WNYC Studios. 22 October 2007. Radiolab ‘Space’ episode. www.wnycstudios.org/story/91520-space/

  Chapter 9. Mixing and Mastering

  Lomberg, J. Unpublished manuscript

  Sagan, C. at al. 1978. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Chapter 10. The Final Cut

  Davidson, K. 1999. Carl Sagan: A Life. John Wiley & Son, New York

  Ferris, T. 1978. Voyager’s Music. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Poundstone, W. 1999. Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos. Henry Holt, New York

  Sagan, C. at al. 1978. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Chapter 11. A Last Supper

  Lomberg, J. Unpublished manuscript

  Sagan, C. 1978. For Future Times and Beings. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  Unknown author. 1977. NASA ‘Voyager will Carry “Earth Sounds” Record’ press release. JPL website. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6047

  Chapter 12. Hello, We Must Be Going

  Barry, R. 2017. How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record. boingboing.net/2017/09/05/how-to-decode-the-images-on-th.html

  Collins, G. 1985. The Sagan: Fiction and Fact Back to Back. New York Times, 30 September 1985

  Davidson, K. 1999. Carl Sagan: A Life. John Wiley & Son, New York

  Druyan, A. 2006. Ten Times Around the Sun Without Carl. anndruyan.typepad.com/the_observatory/

  Grinspoon, L. 1971. Marihuana Reconsidered. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  McMurran, K. 1980. His Cosmos a Huge Success, Carl Sagan Turns Back to Science and Saturn’s Rings. The People, 15 December 1980

  Nelson, S. & Polansky, L. 1993. The Music of the Voyager Interstellar Record. Journal of Applied Communication. 21: 358–375

  Ozma Records. 2017. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition

  Poundstone, W. 1999. Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos. Henry Holt, New York

  Sagan, C. 1977. Briefing notes for President Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale. The Seth Macfarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive, Library of Congress

  — 1977. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Carl Sagan, 1977. www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1977/the-planets

  — 1978. For Future Times and Beings. Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. Random House, New York

  — 1993. Pale blue dot: a vision of the human future in space. The Seth Macfarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive, Library of Congress

  Voyager 2 Fly-by of Neptune Press Conference, 25 August 1989. www.c-span.org/video/?8864-1/voyager-2-fly-neptune

  Voyager Missions, Solar System Image Press Conference, 6 June 1990. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCTgCF8Khk

  Voyager Spacecraft 40th Anniversary. 5 September 2017. www.c-span.org/video/?433512-2/voyager-spacecraft-40th-anniversary

  Others

  Alan Lomax Family Collections at the American Folklife Center, www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/alanlomaxcollection.html

  Bell, J. 2015. The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission. Dutton, New York

  Davies, P. 2010. The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe. Allen Lane, London

  The Farthest. 2017. Documentary. Director: Emer Reynolds

  Ferris, T. 1989. Coming of Age in the Milky Way. The Bodley Head, London

  JPL Archives Catalogue description of the Voyager Interstellar Record Collection, 1976-1977: pub-lib.jpl.nasa.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-533/JPL151. For more information on JPL History and Archives go to: www.jpl.nasa.gov/history/

  Sagan, C. 2006. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. Penguin Press, New York

  Appendix A: The Complete Contents of Nasa’s Voyager Golden Record 1

  Part I. Greeting from Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the United Nations

  Part II. Greetings in 55 Languages

  Part III. United Nations Greetings/Whale Songs Mohamed El-Zoeby, Egypt (Arabic) Chaidir Anwar Sani, Indonesia (Indonesian)

  Bernadette Lefort, France (French) Syed Azmat Hassan, Pakistan (Punjabi)

  Peter Jankowitsch, Austria (German)

  Robert B. Edmonds, Canada (English)

  Wallace R.T. Macaulay, Nigeria (Efik)

  James F. Leonard, United States (English)

  Juan Carlos Valero, Chile (Spanish)

  Eric Duchene, Belgium (Flemish) Samuel Ramsay Nicol, Sierra Leone (English)

  Wallace R.T. Macaulay, Nigeria (English)

  Bahram Moghtaderi, Iran (Persian)

  Ralph Harry, Australia (Esperanto)

  Anders Thunboig, Sweden (Swedish)

  Whale songs courtesy of Roger Payne/Ocean Alliance

  Part IV. The Sounds of Earth

  Music of the Spheres

  Volcanoes, Earthquake, Thunder

  Mud Pots

  Wind, Rain, Surf

  Crickets, Frogs

  Birds, Hyena, Elephant

  Chimpanzee

  Wild Dog

  Footsteps, Heartbeats, Laughter

  Fire, Speech

  The First Tools

  Tame Dog

  Herding Sheep, Blacksmith Shop, Sawing, Tractor, Riveter, Morse Code

  Ships, Horse and Cart, Train, Truck, Tractor, Bus, Automobile, F-111 Fly-by, Saturn 5 Lift-off

  Kiss

  Mother and Child

  EEG Life Signs

  Pulsar

  Sound effects and field recordings courtesy of the Elektra Sound Effects Library, except: ‘Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds’ (Music of the Spheres) courtesy of Laurie Spiegel Publishing (ASCAP); Earthquake courtesy of David Simpson, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) courtesy of Ronald R. Hoy, Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour, Cornell University; Birds recorded by James Gulledge, Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University; !Kung speech courtesy of Richard Lee, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; Morse Code provided by William R. Schoppe, Jr.; Train and Saturn V Lift-off recorded by Alan Botto; Mother and Child provided by Margaret Bullowa and Lise Menn, Speech Communication Laboratory of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; EEG Life Signs recorded by Julius Korein, MD, New York University School of Medicine; Pulsar courtesy of Frank Drake.

  Part V. The Photographic Sequence

  President Carter’s message (see note at the end of the appendix)

  Typed lists of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives responsible for NASA activities 1, 2, 3 and 4

  Calibration circle

  Solar location map/Andromeda Galaxy composite

  Mathematical definitions

  Physical unit definitions

  Solar system 1

  Solar system 2

  The Sun composi
te, Hale observatories

  Solar spectrum

  Mercury

  Mars

  Jupiter

  Earth

  Earth from space, showing Egypt, the Red Sea and the Sinai Peninsula

  DNA structure and replication 1

  DNA structure and replication 2

  DNA structure and replication 3

  Cells and cell division, Turtox/Cambosco

  Anatomy 1, World Book

  Anatomy 2, World Book

  Anatomy 3, World Book

  Anatomy 4, World Book

  Anatomy 5, World Book

  Anatomy 6, World Book

  Anatomy 7, World Book

  Anatomy 8, World Book

  Human sex organs, Sinauer Associates, Inc.

  Conception silhouette

  Conception, Albert Bonniers; Forlag, Stockholm

  Fertilized ovum, Albert Bonniers; Forlag, Stockholm

  Fetus silhouette

  Fetus, Dr Frank Allan

  Male and pregnant female silhouette

  Birth, Wayne Miller

  Nursing mother

  Father and daughter (Malaysia), David Harvey

  Group of children, Ruby Mera, UNICEF

  Family portrait silhouette

  Family portrait, Nina Leen, Time, Inc.

  Diagram of continental drift

  Structure of Earth’s core

  Heron Island

  Seashore, Dick Smith

  Snake River and Grand Tetons, Ansel Adams

  Sand dunes, George Mobley

  Monument Valley, Shostal Associates, Inc.

  Forest scene with mushrooms, Bruce Dale

  Leaf, Arthur Herrick

  Fallen leaves, Jodi Cobb

  Snowflake/Sequoia composite, Josef Muench, R. Sisson

  Tree/daffodils composite, Gardens Winterthur, Winterthur Museum

  Flying insect with flowers, Borne on the Wind, Stephen Dalton

  Diagram of vertebrate evolution

  Seashell (Xancidae), Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

  Dolphins, Thomas Nebbia

  School of fish, David Doubilet

  Tree toad, Dave Wickstrom

  Crocodile, Peter Beard

  Eagle, Donona, Taplinger Publishing Co.

  Waterhole, South African Tourist Corp.

  Jane Goodall and chimps, Vanne Morris-Goodall

  Bushmen hunters silhouette

  Bushmen hunters, R. Farbman, Time, Inc.

  Man from Guatemala

  Dancer from Bali, Donna Grosvenor

  Andean girls, Joseph Scherschel

  Thailand craftsman, Dean Conger

  Elephant, Peter Kunstadter

  Old man with beard and glasses, Jonathan Blair

  Old man with dog and flowers, Bruce Baumann

  Mountain climber, Gaston Rebuffat

  Gymnast, Philip Leonian, Sports Illustrated

  Olympic sprinters, Picturepoint London

  Japanese schoolroom

  Children with globe

  Cotton harvest, Howell Walker

  Grape picker, David Moore

  Supermarket

  Underwater scene with diver and fish, Jerry Greenberg

  Fishing boats

  Cooking fish, Cooking of Spain and Portugal, Time-Life Books

  Chinese dinner party, Time-Life Books

  Demonstration of eating, licking and drinking

  Great Wall of China, H. Edward Kim

  Construction scene, African

  Construction scene, Amish, William Albert Allard

  Hut

  New England house, Robert Sisson

  Modern house

  House interior with artist and fire, Jim Amos

  Taj Mahal, David Carroll

  English city – Oxford, C.S. Lewis, Images of His World, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

  Boston from the Charles River, Ted Spiegel

  UN Building by day

  UN Building by night

  Sydney Opera House, Mike Long

  Artisan with drill, Frank Hewlett

  Factory interior, Fred Ward

  Museum, David Cupp

  X-ray of hand

  Woman with microscope

  Street scene, Pakistan

  Street scene, India

  Highway, Ithaca

  Golden Gate Bridge, Ansel Adams

  Train, Gordon Gahan

  Airplane taking off

  Toronto Airport

  Antarctic expedition, National Geographic

  Radio telescope (Westerbork, Netherlands), James Blair

  Arecibo Observatory

  Page from a book

  Astronaut in space

  Titan Centaur launch

  Sunset with birds, David Harvey

  String Quartet, Quartetto Italiano, Phillips Recordings

  Quartet score/violin composite

  Part VI. Short Musical Segue Featuring a Few Seconds of the Cavatina

  Part VII. The Music

  1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047: I. Allegro

  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter (conductor) featuring Karl-Heinz Schneeberger (violin). Recorded in Munich, Germany, January 1967. Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.

  2. Ketawang: Puspåwårnå (Kinds of Flowers)

  Performed by Pura Paku Alaman Palace Orchestra/K.R.T. Wasitodipuro (director) featuring Niken Larasati and Nji Tasri (vocals). Recorded by Robert E. Brown in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, on 10 January 1971. ℗ 1988 Nonesuch Records.

  3. Cengunmé

  Performed by Mahi musicians of Benin. Recorded by Charles Duvelle in Savalou, Benin, West Africa, January 1963. Courtesy of Charles Duvelle.

  4. Alima Song

  Performed by Mbuti of the Ituri Rainforest. Recorded by Colin Turnbull and Francis S. Chapman in the Ituri Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, circa 1951. ‘Alima Song’ from the recording Music of the Ituri Forest, FW04483, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. ℗ (c) 1957.

  5. Barnumbirr (Morning Star) and Moikoi Song

  Performed by Tom Djawa (clapsticks), Mudpo (didgeridoo), and Waliparu (vocals). Recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes at Milingimbi Mission on Milingimbi Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, 1962. Courtesy of Sandra LeBrun Holmes and Amanda Holmes Tzafrir.

  6. El Cascabel

  Composed by Lorenzo Barcelata. Performed by Antonio Maciel and Los Aguilillas with Mariachi. México de Pepe Villa/Rafael Carrión (conductor). ℗ 1957 Musart.

  7. Johnny B. Goode

  Written and performed by Chuck Berry (vocals, guitar) with Lafayette Leak (piano), Willie Dixon (bass), and Fred Below (drums). Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois, on 6 January 1958. Courtesy of Geffen (MCA/Chess).

  8. Mariuamangi

  Performed by Pranis Pandang and Kumbui (mariuamangɨ) of the Nyaura clan. Recorded by Robert MacLennan in the village of Kandɨngei, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea, on 23 July 1964.

  9. Sokaku-Reibo (Depicting the Cranes in Their Nest)

  Arranged by Kinko Kurosawa. Performed by Goro Yamaguchi (shakuhachi). Recorded in New York City, circa 1967. ℗ 1977 Elektra Entertainment.

  10. Partita for Violin Solo No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: III. Gavotte En Rondeau

  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Arthur Grumiaux (violin). Recorded in Berlin, Germany, November 1960. Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited.

  11. The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), K. 620, ACT II: Hell’s Vengeance Boils in my Heart

  Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performed by Bavarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) featuring Edda Moser (soprano). Recorded in Munich, Germany, August 1972. Warner Classics UK Ltd.

  12. Chakrulo

  Performed by Georgian State Merited Ensemble of Folk Song and Dance/Anzor Kavsadze (director) featuring Ilia Zakaidze (first tenor) and Rostom Saginashvili (second tenor). Recorded at Melodiya Studio in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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  Performed by musicians from Ancash from recordings collected by José Mariá Arguedas (Casa de la Cultura) in the Ancash, Region of Peru, circa 1964.

  14. Melancholy Blues

  Written by Marty Bloom and Walter Melrose. Performed by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven. Recorded in Chicago, Illinois on 11 May 1927. Courtesy of Columbia Records.

  15. Muğam

  Performed by Kamil Jalilov (balaban). Recorded by Radio Moscow circa 1950. ‘Azerbaijan S.S.R. – Mugam’ from the recording Folk Music of the U.S.S.R., FW04535, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. ℗ © 1960.

  16. The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps), Part II – The Sacrifice: VI. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

  Composed by Igor Stravinsky. Performed by Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Igor Stravinsky (conductor). Recorded at the Ballroom of the St George Hotel, Brooklyn, New York, on 6 January 1960. Courtesy of Sony Classical.

  17. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 870

  Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Glenn Gould (piano). Recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City on 8 August 1966. Sony Classical.

  18. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67: I. Allegro Con Brio

  Composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer (conductor). Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London, on 6 October 1955. Warner Classics UK Ltd.

  19. Izlel E Delyu Haydutin

  Performed by Valya Balkanska (vocal), Lazar Kanevski and Stephan Zahmanov (kaba gaidi). Recorded by Martin Koenig and Ethel Raim in Smolyan, Bulgaria, 1968. 1988 Nonesuch Records.

  20. Navajo Night Chant, Yeibichai Dance

  Performed by Ambrose Roan Horse, Chester Roan and Tom Roan. Recorded by Willard Rhodes in Pine Springs, Arizona, Summer 1942. ‘Night Chant, Yeibichai Dance’ from the recording Music of the American Indians of the Southwest, FW04420, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. ℗ © 1951.

  21. The Fairie Round Composed by Anthony Holborne. Performed by Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow (director). Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, September 1973. ℗ 1976 Erato/Warner. 22. Naranaratana Kookokoo (The Cry of the Megapode Bird)

  Performed by Maniasinimae and Taumaetarau Chieftain Tribe of Oloha and Palasu’u Village Community in Small Malaita. Courtesy of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC), formerly the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Services (SIBS).

 

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