3 in E major for Violin, performed by Arthur Grumiaux. Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No.Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") performed by Goro Yamaguchi.New Guinea, men's house song, recorded by Robert MacLennan.Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. Mexico, "El Cascabel," performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México.
Australia, Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird," recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes.Zaire, Pygmy girls' initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull.Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles Duvelle.Java, court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers," recorded by Robert Brown.First Movement, Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor. It contains spoken greetings beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect.įollowing are the 55 languages included in the Golden Record:įollowing the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music from many cultures, including Eastern and Western classics. The remainder of the record is audio, designed to be played at 16⅔ revolutions per minute. The 115 images are encoded in analog form. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.Īfter NASA received much criticism over the "smut" on the Pioneer plaque (the line drawings of a naked man and woman) from the Christian right that objected to "using tax dollars to send pornography into space" they chose not to include anything on the subject of male-female interaction. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, and thunder, and animal sounds, including the songs of birds and whales. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. It is intended that analysis of the decay products of the uranium will provide a reference for the time of manufacture (in very rough terms - the half-life of uranium-238 is around 4.5 billion years).Įxplanation of the Voyager record cover diagram, as provided by NASA. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played.Īn ultra-pure sample of uranium-238 is electroplated onto the cover. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. The Voyager message is carried by the Voyager Golden Record a 30 cm (12-inch approx.) gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. With this example before them, NASA placed a more comprehensive (and eclectic) message aboard Voyager 1 and 2 – a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. Pioneers 10 and 11, which were launched in 19 and preceded Voyager in outstripping the gravitational attraction of the Sun, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. Ferris included the song behind greetings in 55 languages.The Voyager spacecraft will be the third and fourth human artifacts to escape entirely from the solar system. So, the music producer Jimmy Iovine kissed his arm to demonstrate and it landed on the record, where it was enacted by Ferris planting a kiss on Ann Druyan’s cheek.īiologist Roger Payne contributed a whale song that was recorded in 1970 by hydrophones off the coast of Bermuda.
Recording this was a hectic task as few were very quiet and others were too loud. It was selected as the most spectacular architecture. It’s a proud moment for Indians as the little green men will be shown an Indian monument. To demonstrate the functions of the mouth, an image of a woman licking an ice cream, a man eating a sandwich, and a man drinking water was attached. NASA approved including the diagrams of human sex organs and images. These are the few selections that were involved in the recorder-Ī Male and a pregnant Female’s SilhouetteĪccording to the team, it was important to inform about the anatomy of the human body. It included 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a montage of 12-minutes of sounds on Earth, and also, 90 minutes of music.
GOLDEN RECORDS ON VOYAGER HOW TO
Explanation of how to use the recorder by symbols (Image Source: Wikipedia)
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