And, dammit, if there is life there, they will get to hear our most cutting-edge dance music, and they’ll like it. As long as humankind has ventured into space, it has tried to take music into the unknown. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Hadfield performing Space Oddity on the International Space Station. More interesting is the use of music to communicate with other life forms, pioneered in 1977 with the Voyager Golden Record. What music – any music – could convey to other life forms, he says, is “simply the concepts of rhythm and melody.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2017 09:22 UTC