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Nick Luscombe with Golden Records

Marking the 40th anniversary of the Voyager Golden Record, a sonic time capsule sent into space by Nasa to transmit earthly music, sounds and languages to extraterrestrials.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the Voyager Golden Record, a sonic gift sent into space by NASA to transmit earthly music, sounds and languages to extraterrestrials. A committee chaired by Carl Sagan selected the contents of this "message in a bottle cast into the cosmic ocean", including bits of Bach, blues music, and Chuck Berry on the gold-plated copper disc.

Tonight the task is Nick Luscombe's. He will be speculating on what futuristic sounds we would send out into the universe were we to do it again now, as well as playing the best bits from the original Golden Record, including traditional music from Benin, Peru, and Australia, mariachi from Lorenzo Barcelata, and Hindustani classical music from Kesarbai Kerkar.

To help discuss and dissect the Golden Record, Nick welcomes Black Quantum Futurism to Late Junction. Made up of experimental musician Moor Mother and author/attorney Rasheedah Phillips, they are an afro-futurist force in music, film, and literature, with a special interest in time capsules and temporality.

Humanity's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2 achieve 40 years of exploration this August and September. Though they have left the planets far behind and will not come close to another star for 40,000 years, they continue to communicate with NASA daily.

Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Tue 29 Aug 2017 23:00
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Music Played

  • Warp 9

    Light Years Away

    • It's A Beat Wave.
    • 4th & Broadway.

  • Mahi musicians of Benin

    颁别苍驳耻苍尘茅

    • The Golden Record.

  • Tom Djawa, Mudpo & Waliparu

    Barnumbirr (Morning Star)/Moikoi Song

    • The Golden Record.

  • Lorenzo Barcelata, Antonio Maciel and Los Aguilillas, Mariachi M茅xico de Pepe Villa & Rafael Carri贸n

    El Cascabel

    • The Golden Record.

  • Gor艒 Yamaguchi

    Sokaku-Reibo (Depicting the Cranes in Their Nest)

    • The Golden Record.

  • Georgian State Merited Ensemble of Folk Song and Dance & Anzor Kavsadze

    Chakrulo

    • The Golden Record.

  • Young girl of Huancavelica

    Wedding Song

    • The Golden Record.

  • Guan Pinghu

    Liu Shui (Flowing Streams)

    • The Golden Record.

  • Kesarbai Kerkar

    Bhairavi: Jaat Kahan Ho

    • The Golden Record.

  • Bob Dylan

    Stardust

    • Triplicate.
    • Columbia.

  • Dan Deacon

    Sago An Ya Rev (live @ sacrum profanum festival, Krakow)

    Performer: Bang on a Can All-Stars.
    • Bang On A Can Spring 2016 Mixtape.
    • Cantaloupe Music.

  • Captain Beefheart & Magic Band

    Further Than We've Gone

    • Bluejeans & Moonbeams.
    • Virgin.

  • Nick in conversation with Black Quantum Futurism

    • Moor Mother

      Time Distortion (feat. Black Quantum Futurism)

      • The Motionless Present.
      • The Vinyl Factory.

    • Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana

      Illuminations

      • Illuminations.
      • Columbia.

    • Matana Roberts

      J.P.

      • Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee.
      • Constellation.

    • Black Quantum Futurism

      Temporal Technologies

      • Self-released.

    • Betty Carter

      Sounds (Movin' On)

      • The Audience With Betty Carter.
      • Verve Records.

  • David Allred

    The Universe

    • Woods.
    • oscarson.

  • Yann Tomita

    Time Machine

    • Music For Astro Age.
    • Sony.

  • Alexander Courage

    Star Trek - End Title (Electric Violin Version)

  • Caoimh铆n Breathnach

    叠辞濒肠谩苍

    Music Arranger: Jennifer Walshe.
    • Always Arranged But Never Complete: Caoimh铆n Breathnach鈥檚 Golden Cassette..

  • Vangelis

    Pulstar

    • Pulstar.
    • RCA Victor.

  • Parliament

    Mothership Connection (Star Child)

    • Mothership Connection.
    • Casablanca.

  • Space Dimension Controller

    The Love Quadrant

    • The Love Quadrant.
    • Kinnego Records.

  • Coda to Coda

    Celestial Mechanisms

    • Robots: The Exhibition Soundtrack.
    • Coda to Coda.

  • Laurie Spiegel

    Kepler's Harmony Of The Worlds

    • The Expanding Universe.
    • Unseen Worlds.

  • Carl Sagan

    A Glorious Dawn (feat. Stephen Hawking)

    • A Glorious Dawn.
    • Third Man Records.

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Aug 2017 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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