Saturday, April 4, 2009

Blast-off at eight

We are a tiny bubble here
Six billion passengers and more
And we only hope, one day,
To shake hands with our neighbors.
So, tonight, let us repeat
That long phrase we murmured
Then set in gold and released into heaven
Hoping some future angel might read
"ad astra per aspera"

8:00
1. Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans - Why Go Up There? (1:47)

Tonight is the Golden Record and the soundtrack from Cosmos, y otra vez.

3. Murmurs Of Earth - Greeting From The Secretary General Of The UN (0:46)
4. Pet Shop Boys & David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (PSB Extended Mi (6:40)
5. Murmurs Of Earth - El Cascabel -- Mexico, performed by Lorenzo Barcelata (3:24)
6. Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture (2:53)
7. Murmurs Of Earth - The Magic Flute: Queen Of The Night Aria, No. 14 -- Mozart (2:55)
8. Combustible Edison - Call of the Space Siren (4:26)
9. John Williams - Lost In Space (1965 TV Theme) (1:06)
10. Murmurs Of Earth - Johnny B. Goode -- Chuck Berry (2:43)
11. Space Monkeys (1:04)
12. William S. Burroughs - William's Welcome ("What are you here for?") (1:38)
13. The Prodigy - Out of Space (3:44)
14. The Orb - Spanish Castles in Space (castles in goa mix) (9:00)
15. Ken Nordine - Outer Space (3:33)
16. Toru Takemitsu - Inside the Heart of the Universe (1:26)
17. Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Spring (3:16)
18. Murmurs Of Earth - Tchenhoukoumen -- Senegal, percussion (2:12)
19. Murmurs Of Earth - Fairie Round, from Paueans, Gaillards, Almains, And Other Short Aeirs -- Holborne (1:19)
20. Murmurs Of Earth - Dark Was The Night -- Blind Willie Johnson (3:23)

Ann Druyan explains:

Earlier I had asked Carl if those putative extraterrestrials of a billion years from now could conceivably interpret the brain waves of a meditator. Who knows? A billion years is a long, long time, was his reply. On the chance that it might be possible why don't we give it a try?

Two days after our life-changing phone call, I entered a laboratory at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and was hooked up to a computer that turned all the data from my brain and heart into sound. I had a one-hour mental itinerary of the information I wished to convey. I began by thinking about the history of Earth and the life it sustains. To the best of my abilities I tried to think something of the history of ideas and human social organization. I thought about the predicament that our civilization finds itself in and about the violence and poverty that make this planet a hell for so many of its inhabitants. Toward the end I permitted myself a personal statement of what it was like to fall in love.

9:00
22. Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No. 19 (1:47)
23. Murmurs Of Earth - Melancholy Blues -- performed by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven (3:10)
24. Murmurs Of Earth - Wedding Song -- Peru (0:42)
25. Murmurs Of Earth - Rite Of Spring, Sacrificial Dance -- Stravinsky (4:36)
26. Murmurs Of Earth - Ugam -- Azerbaijan Bagpipes (2:37)
27. They Might Be Giants - Space Suit (1:36)
28. Vangelis - Alpha (2:39)
29. Murmurs Of Earth - Kinds Of Flowers -- Java, court gamelan (4:51)
30. Synergy - Legacy (2:22)
31. Tipsy - Space Golf (3:59)
32. Caleb Sampson - Circus in Outer Space (2:56)
33. Murmurs Of Earth - Morning Star And Devil Bird -- Australian Aborigine songs (1:29)
34. Murmurs Of Earth - Navajo Night Chant -- United States (1:01)
35. Devo - Space Junk (2:41)
36. The Space Lady - Major Tom (5:05)
37. Murmurs Of Earth - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude And Fugue In C, No. 1 -- J. S. Bach (4:50)
38. J.S. Bach--Tomita - The Sea Named Solaris (3:21)
39. Murmurs Of Earth - Tchakrulo -- Georgia, chorus (2:25)

How can we talk about "Cosmos" without playing the title track?

10:00
41. Vangelis - Heaven and Hell, Part 1 (3:23)
42. Johann Pachelbel - Canon a 3 on a Ground in D (3:19)
43. Murmurs Of Earth - Pygmy Girls' Initiation Song -- Zaire (1:00)
44. Vangelis - Entends-tu les Chiens Aboyer? (3:56)
45. Murmurs Of Earth - Men's House Song -- Papua New Guinea (1:25)
46. Murmurs Of Earth - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 In F, First Movement -- J. S. Bach (4:44)
47. Murmurs Of Earth - Melanesian Panpipes -- Solomon Islands (1:17)
48. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 (2:19)
49. Gojira (1954) - Peace and Light Return to Us (2:05)
50. Japanese traditional - Depicting the Cranes in their Nest (0:58)
51. Murmurs Of Earth - Gavotte En Rondeaux, from the Partitia No. 3 In E Minor For Violin -- J. S. Bach (3:01)
52. Roy Buchanan - Fly Night Bird (1:20)
53. Vangelis - Beauborg, Part II (1:32)
54. Murmurs Of Earth - Panpipes And Drum Song -- Peru (0:55)
55. Murmurs Of Earth - Flowing Streams -- China, Ch'in, performed by Kuan P'ing-hu (7:48)
56. Murmurs Of Earth - Izlel Je Delyo Hagdutin -- Bulgaria, sung by Valya Balkanska (5:04)
58. Murmurs Of Earth - Greetings In 55 Languages (4:25)
59. Murmurs Of Earth - UN Greetings / Whale Greetings (4:05)
60. 05 - 01-23 (1:50)
61. Murmurs Of Earth - The Sounds Of Earth (12:26)

Oh yeah, Random played for an hour.

11:00
1. Peggy Lee - I Ain't Got Nobody (2:16)
2. Catherine Wheel - High Heels (3:30)
3. Buddy Rich - Oh What It Seemed To Me (3:27)
4. Sweet Sweetback's Badaassss song - Wont bleed me (2:42)
5. Reading & Radio Resource - Fourth Amendment (0:25)
6. Dream Warriors - Ludi (3:04)
7. Tommaso Albinoni - Adagio G minor (8:14)
8. Kevin Bloody Wilson - Darlin' I'm So Horny (2:56)
9. Various Artists - Naima (4:42)
10. Raÿl Planas - Madre No Me Pida in Dub (3:37)
11. Le Hammond Inferno - Move Your Mp3 (FPM mix) (7:21)
12. Cabaret Voltaire - Doubled Delivery (5:42)
13. Asbestos Lead Asbestos Meat Beat Manifesto (6:22)
14. Harry Nilsson - Puget Sound - Duit On Mon Dei (8) (LP) (2:25)
15. Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City (3:05)
16. Lemon Demon - Fine (4:40)
17. Sita Sings the Blues - Opening Theme (3:20)
18. Menomena - Evil Bee (4:14)
19. Philip Glass - November 25: THE LAST DAY (1:30)
20. Theme - Futurama (extended).mp3 (2:51)
21. Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever (Mantronik 007 Remix) (3:13)