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Aliens Remix Songs Sent Into Space in 1977

10/04/2010
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This one was just too fun to pass up, not that we believe the premise but it's fun. So here you go: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft, 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 micronation 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.

Because the members of SETI-X wish to remain anonymous, Seeland Records has asked Dr. Stefan Helmreich, who produced the science-and-technology oriented Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music, if he might comment on this CD.

Other high-profile scholars who have agreed to comment include: Dr. Richard Doyle (Rhetorician of Alien Communication, English, Penn State), Dr. Chris Kelty (Scholar of Extraterrestrial Copyright Law, Information Sciences, UCLA), Dr. Sarah Kember (Alien Mediation and Performativity, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, London), Dr. Cristopher Moore (Theorist of Information and Noise, Computer Science, University of New Mexico), Peter Whincop (Sonic Deconvolution Expert , Department of Music, MIT/Harvard).

SETI-X (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile)
Scrambles of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Remixed by Extraterrestrials. (Seeland Records, 11/1/10)

Track Listing:

01. Uranium Nations/Hello Children 0:35
02. Pulsar Plus 2:56
03. Thin Dark Night 3:29
04. Ill-Tempered Wedding 4:24
05. Visit to the Observatory 1:40
06. Rushing Streams 3:00
07. Men's House Stutter 1:23
08. Shakuhachi Mariachi 3:04
09. Just Cranes 5:11
10. Back in the CCCP 2:48
11. Countdown 0:59
12. Scrambles of Earth/What Earthlings Are Made of 4:30
13. Renaissance Faire Eject/Gasping in Twelve Languages 2:06
14. Queen's Queens 0:34
15. Fifth World 1:38
16. My Life as a Field of Sheep 5:08
17. Total Transmission 0:10
18. Psychlo Killer/Total Transmission 1:32
19. Fifth Dysphony 4:04
20. The Rites of Mars 3:02
21. I Am Getting Married in a Spaceship 2:03
22. Way Down 2:25
23. Interleave 4:56
24. Elegy for Pluto/Secretary General 6:38

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