

Please visit The Golden Record Film's website for full details and information about how you can get involved. Figure 2 Golden Record on board the Voyager spacecraft (image courtesy of. Oceania: music from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and aborigine Australian lands 1 and 2 probes, twin spacecraft that were built to navigate the uncharted. The UK: Instrumental music from the Renaissance ageĪfrica: traditional music from Benin and the DRCĮast and Southeast Asia: traditional and folk music from China, Japan, Indonesia and India Latin America: traditional music of Peru and MexicoĬlassical Europe: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, StravinskyĮastern Europe and Eurasia: traditional and folk music of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Bulgaria Mounted on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, twin probes launched in 1977, the two copies of the record would serve as time capsules and transmit much more information about life on Earth should. Golden record - A phonograph record of a 12-inch. The United States: The music of the blues, Navajo traditional music, jazz and rock n' roll. Golden Record flying aboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 - Sights & Sounds of Earths Humanity. Voyager Sounds Of Earth Record Cover, 1977, National Air and Space Museum, Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. El Jinete Films will travel to each country represented on the Record in order to capture the musical traditions of the Record as they exist today. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images. The 27 songs were selected as “musical representatives” of our civilization, but what can we say we know about them? To explore this question, we will seek out the artists who today continue the legacy of these musical traditions. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.
