Earth’s Music to the Stars: The Voyager Golden Record and the Question of Universal Sound

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It examines whether music is a universal instinct that could connect civilizations, traces humanity’s longing for melody from ancient rituals to modern pop, describes the Voyager Golden Record as Earth’s cultural time capsule for any potential listeners, notes a classical bias (Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky) and Alan Lomax’s reluctance toward rock with Johnny B. Goode placed at #11 between a Lorenzo Barcelata piece and a Papua New Guinea tradition, says the record will drift about 1.6 light-years to Gilese 445 in around 40,000 years, and asks what the top 10 songs aliens would actually hear might be.