The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
by Jonathan Scott · 21 Mar 2019 · 307pp · 90,490 words
access to computers that allowed much more ‘complex, reproducible and stable control of sound’. The only original electronic ‘music’ aboard Voyager is a piece called ‘Music of the Spheres’, positioned at the start of the ‘Sounds of Earth’ sound essay. It is essentially a fabric made of ever-changing computer-generated tones, each one
…
100 years of sound at the rate of 20 seconds per Earth year.’ Job done, the Yale professors put out a press release, and the ‘Music of the Spheres’ won some extended coverage in the New York Times (22 March 1977), which is presumably where Carl or one of the team heard about it
…
diverse ways of generating melodies and harmonies from gestures. I guess what I’m saying is, if Brian Eno or Philip Glass had worked on ‘Music of the Spheres’, I feel we’d all know about it. But they didn’t. Laurie Spiegel did, and I think she rules. So go check out
…
‘Music of the Spheres’, and once you’ve done that, go listen to Laurie’s The Expanding Universe album. It’s fabulous. In any event, her boss Max Mathews
…
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
…
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
…
choosing the music here compiling the sound essay here images in the picture sequence here popular music here recording here sequencing here world music here ‘Music of the Spheres’ here NASA here, here, here, here, here, here, here Grand Tour here, here Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) here, here, here, here, here, here LAGEOS (Laser
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
by Lee Billings · 2 Oct 2013 · 326pp · 97,089 words
of its instruments played different notes all at once. If a planet hunter was too focused on a handful of isolated sweet tones in the music of the spheres, he or she could miss other planets hiding in the sour notes and residual noise. The smaller the world, the weaker its signal, and the
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
by Johnjoe McFadden · 27 Sep 2021
. A thousand years after Anaximenes, alchemists were claiming to extract pure quintessence from their potions, while two thousand years after Pythagoras, composers were still writing music of the spheres. Entities may become superfluous but they are often remarkably durable. FIGURE 4: Position of Mars against background stars on consecutive nights. Yet, although crystal spheres
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
triangle, and, most interestingly, worked out the mathematical basis of musical harmony. He may be the author of the beautiful but mistaken theory of ‘the music of the spheres’. Eudoxus discovered the Theory of Proportions, and the method of exhaustion for measuring curvilinear surfaces. His disciple, Menaechmus, discovered conic sections. All these researches prepared
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
by Marcus Du Sautoy · 18 May 2016
reality, has been raging for millennia. Is the universe dancing to the sound of my trumpet or shimmying to the glissando of my cello? THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES How did I personally come to know about these electrons and quarks that are believed to be the last layer of my dice? I’ve
…
skies. The orbits of the planets were believed to be in a perfect mathematical relationship to each other, giving rise to the idea of the music of the spheres. More importantly for understanding the make-up of my dice, it was also believed that discrete numbers rather than a continuous glissando were the key
…
could build all matter. Oxygen: 8 protons, 8 neutrons and 8 electrons. Sodium: 11 protons, 12 neutrons and 11 electrons. It was as if the music of the spheres was singing out and the foundations of matter were these notes: protons, electrons and neutrons. All matter seemed to be made up of whole-number
…
, 278–9, 280; modelling of future trajectories 63–4, 72; motion of 29, 33–41, 62–4, 72, 88, 193, 279, 280; multiverse and 231; music of the spheres and 81; new habitable 3; singularities and 280 Plato 81–2, 113, 188, 208–9, 304, 368, 373, 409–10, 412 Pleiades 20, 250 Plough
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco · 15 Dec 1990 · 948pp · 214,109 words
the World, now that I stood within its bundle of vocal cords encrusted with rivet polyps, I would have heard the Tower hoarsely whisper the music of the spheres as it sucked waves from the heart of our hollow planet and transmitted them to all the menhirs of the world. Rhizome of junctures, cervical
Is God a Mathematician?
by Mario Livio · 6 Jan 2009 · 315pp · 93,628 words
essence, we recognize it to be as free as the mind, as prehensile as the imagination. Non-Euclidean geometry is proof that mathematics, unlike the music of the spheres, is man’s own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. So, contrary to the precision and certitude that are
The Planets
by Dava Sobel · 1 Jan 2005 · 190pp · 52,570 words
Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective CONTENTS MODEL WORLDS (Overview) GENESIS (The Sun)) MYTHOLOGY (Mercury) BEAUTY (Venus) GEOGRAPHY (Earth) LUNACY (The Moon) SCI-FI (Mars) ASTROLOGY (Jupiter) MUSIC OF THE SPHERES (Saturn) NIGHT AIR (Uranus and Neptune) UFO (Pluto) PLANETEERS (Coda) Acknowledgments Glossary A Note About the Illustrations Details Bibliography Index MODEL WORLDS My planet fetish
…
. Simon Marius, a contemporary of Galileo and Kepler, gave the moons their enduring individual names by selecting four favored lovers of the mythological Zeus/Jupiter. MUSIC of the SPHERES Between 1914 and 1916, the English composer Gustav Holst created the only known example of a symphonic tribute to the Solar System, his Opus 32
…
mathematical rules and proportions as the tones on a musical scale. Plato reprised the idea two centuries later, in The Republic, introducing the memorable phrase “music of the spheres” to describe the melodious perfection of the heavens. Plato spoke also of “celestial harmony” and “the most magnificent choir”—terms that imply the songs of
…
this musical heritage. As potential envoys to extraterrestrials, both craft carry a specially engineered golden record (complete with its own playback equipment) that expresses the music of the spheres as computer-generated tones designating the velocities of the Sun’s planets. The Voyager Interstellar Record also says “Hello” in fifty-five languages and plays
…
within the Solar System, scientists feel certain the planet Jupiter is devoid of life. The Galileo probe found no complex organic molecules in its atmosphere. Music of the Spheres (Saturn) The Saturn of Greek mythology, called Cronus, devoured his children for fear they would kill him, as he had killed his own father, Uranus
The Clockwork Universe: Saac Newto, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldI
by Edward Dolnick · 8 Feb 2011 · 439pp · 104,154 words
THE BEAUTIFUL” 129 “all things are numbers”: Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, p. 12. 129fn As one of Pythagoras’s followers: Jamie James, The Music of the Spheres (New York: Springer, 1995), p. 35. 130 “one of the truly momentous”: Chandrasekhar, “Shakespeare, Newton, and Beethoven.” 130 St. Augustine explained: Barrow, Pi in the
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
by Steven Weinberg · 17 Feb 2015 · 532pp · 133,143 words
instance, Cicero, in On the Republic, tells a story in which the ghost of the great Roman general Scipio Africanus introduces his grandson to the music of the spheres. It was in pure mathematics rather than in physics that the Pythagoreans made the greatest progress. Everyone has heard of the Pythagorean theorem, that the
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio · 23 Sep 2003
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell · 14 Apr 2004
Unweaving the Rainbow
by Richard Dawkins · 7 Aug 2011 · 339pp · 112,979 words
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan · 1 Jan 1980 · 404pp · 131,034 words
Galileo's Dream
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 29 Dec 2009 · 615pp · 189,720 words
Big Bang
by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 2004 · 492pp · 149,259 words
Bureaucracy
by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by Timothy Ferris · 30 Jun 1988 · 661pp · 169,298 words
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist · 8 Oct 2012
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 words
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven Strogatz · 31 Mar 2019 · 407pp · 116,726 words
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by Nathalia Holt · 4 Apr 2016 · 288pp · 92,175 words
Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov · 31 May 2004
The Age of Wonder
by Richard Holmes · 15 Jan 2008 · 778pp · 227,196 words
Danube (Panther)
by Claudio Magris · 10 Jan 2011 · 459pp · 154,280 words
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words
The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi · 1 Jan 2010 · 324pp · 91,653 words
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant · 23 Jul 2012 · 685pp · 203,431 words
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
by Iain Gately · 30 Jun 2008 · 686pp · 201,972 words
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Some Remarks
by Neal Stephenson · 6 Aug 2012 · 335pp · 107,779 words
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes · 24 Apr 2013 · 432pp · 128,944 words
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
by Michael Spitzer · 31 Mar 2021 · 632pp · 163,143 words
Frommer's Paris 2013
by Kate van Der Boogert · 24 Sep 2012
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe · 1 Jan 1979 · 417pp · 147,682 words
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by Douglas Edwards · 11 Jul 2011 · 496pp · 154,363 words
The Simple Living Guide
by Janet Luhrs · 1 Apr 2014
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk · 2 Jan 2005 · 1,800pp · 596,972 words
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by H. W. Brands · 1 Jan 2000 · 961pp · 302,613 words
QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance (Qi: Book of General Ignorance)
by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson · 28 Sep 2015 · 432pp · 85,707 words
The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
by Marcus Du Sautoy · 7 Mar 2019 · 337pp · 103,522 words
Redrobe
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 1 Jan 2000 · 398pp · 109,479 words
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing · 6 May 2008 · 484pp · 131,168 words
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus Du Sautoy · 26 Apr 2004 · 434pp · 135,226 words
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
by Ray C. Anderson · 28 Mar 2011 · 412pp · 113,782 words
Pashazade
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 1 Jan 2001 · 356pp · 102,320 words
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
by Winifred Gallagher · 9 Mar 2009 · 280pp · 75,820 words
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
by Jerry Mander · 1 Jan 1977
New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 14 Mar 2017 · 693pp · 204,042 words
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
by James Bridle · 6 Apr 2022 · 502pp · 132,062 words
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal · 21 Feb 2017 · 407pp · 90,238 words