Noises on the Voyager Golden Record
The noises on the Voyager Golden Record (also: The noises of the earth ) forms the third section on the interstellar data plate. There are 19 different sequences with over 50 different sounds. The total running time is twelve minutes.
Sounds
The following is a description of each sound in the order in which it was recorded.
| # | noise | description | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Music of the spheres | The series begins with a dizzying vortex of tones that reproduce the movements of the planets on their orbits - a musical selection from Johannes Kepler's “ Harmonices mundi ”, the mathematical treatise whose echoes can still be found in the formulas that made Voyager possible. Kepler's concept was realized by composer Laurie Spiegel in collaboration with Jon Rogers and Willie Ruff from Yale University on a computer at Bell Telephone Laboratories . Each frequency represents a planet; the highest note embodies the movement of Mercury around the sun, seen from the earth, the lowest frequency represents the orbital movement of Jupiter . Inner planets orbit the sun faster than outer planets. That section that sounds on the record corresponds roughly to a century of planetary motion. | 00:43 (until 00:43) |
| 02 | Volcanoes, earthquakes and thunder | A series of rumbling noises depicting the dramatic upheavals in the planet's early history , including the rare tape recording of an earthquake that occurred in Australia in 1971. | 00:32 (until 01:15) |
| 03 | Mud bubbles | Gurgling noises similar to the bubbling of chocolate pudding on the stove. | 00:13 (until 01:28) |
| 04 | Wind, rain and surf | ... | 01:16 (until 02:44) |
| 05 | Crickets and frogs | With the intention of foreshadowing the beginning of life on earth accompanied by loud voices, most of these noises have been taken from the CBS archives , with the exception of the voice of an adult male cricket ( Teleogryllus oceanicus ) performing a solo serenade on the females . | 01:33 (until 04:17) |
| 06 | Birds, hyena and elephant | A chorus of animals intended to suggest the evolving species of fauna comes to life. | 00:59 (to 05:14) |
| 07 | chimpanzee | The voice of a single primate rises above the others and seems angry and screeching to herald a new awareness. | 00:08 (until 05:22) |
| 08 | Wild dog barks | ... | 00:34 (until 05:56) |
| 09 | Steps, palpitations and laughter | The first appearance of a person who walks upright with his hands free. | mm: ss |
| 10 | Fire and language | Professor Richard Borshay Lee of the University of Toronto greets in the Kung language , the language of the Bushmen in Fig. 62 | mm: ss |
| 11 | The first tools | Typical sound of flint breaking and splintering when hit violently with another stone. | mm: ss |
| 12 | Tame dog barks | A tame dog barks peacefully | mm: ss |
| 13 | Rounding up of sheep , forging (Workshop) , saws , tractors and rivetting press | a series of farming and construction sounds | mm: ss |
| 14th | Morse code | per aspera ad astra (over rough paths to the stars) | mm: ss |
| 15th | Ships, horse and cart, railroad train, truck, tractor, bus, cars, supersonic aircraft, Saturn V launch | Many kilometers are covered in this transport sequence. Horse and cart start on a sandy road and end on a cobbled one. From then on the transition types take place very quickly. They reflect the amazing pace of progress in the development of transport in the 19th and 20th centuries. The train and the supersonic aircraft give a satisfactory sense of movement in stereo. The sequence is roughly parallel to images 102, 105 and 113. | mm: ss |
| 16 | kiss | The NASA issued strict orders to make the kiss completely heterosexual. Different variations have been tried to produce a believable kiss. In the end, a gentle cheek kiss was chosen. | mm: ss |
| 17th | mother and child | The very first screams of a child and the reassurance of a screaming six month old child by his mother. | mm: ss |
| 18th | Signs of life | By Ann Druyan were vital functions ( brain , heart , eyes, muscles) Long recorded an hour from a medical data recorder. This recording was then compressed to a minute. | 01:00 |
| 19th | pulsar | The last recording sounds like the scratching of a pickup which runs over the grooves at the end of the record . In fact, it is the pulsar CP1 133, 600 light years away . | mm: ss |
literature
- Sagan, Drake, Lomberg et al .: Signals from the Earth. Our planet introduces itself . Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-426-03676-2 (English: Murmurs of Earth. The Voyager Interstellar Record . German-language paperback edition without replica CD-ROM).
