Jack White's Third Man Preps Carl Sagan/Stephen Hawking 7"
It's not as insane as it sounds. As the folks at Third Man explain:
"A Glorious Dawn" is a moving arrangement of Carl Sagan's sagacious words culled from his magnificent Cosmos series. The piece initially gained recognition when composer John Boswell uploaded to YouTube his remixed Sagan dialogue edited, Auto-Tuned and put to a beat and coupled with a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking.
Sometimes Auto-Tune can be used for good. The Hawking guest verses are via his Universe series. Take a look to jog your synapses.
Here are the details regarding the 7" (Third Man via TwentyFourBit):
The release is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Sagan's birth. Also happening that day is a reception in United States' Congress with speeches by senators, NASA officials and assorted scientists, all hosted by the Planetary Society, which was co-founded by Sagan.
Third Man Records, in conjunction with United Record Pressing, fabricated a special "Cosmos Colored Vinyl" of which 150 copies will be available ... 50 randomly inserted into mail orders for "A Glorious Dawn" and the remainder to be made available at the Third Man Records Nashville store front at noon on November 9th.
The one-sided single features a very special etching on the flipside. Reproduced from the original artwork, the etching copies the etching included with the Voyager Golden Record, set off into space in 1977 as the most elaborate message-in-a-bottle idea ever imagined. With its inclusion of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night" it goes without saying that the Voyager Golden Record is one of Third Man's favorite releases of all-time.
The thumb above is a photo of the original etching. The original Voyager Gold Record, which was curated by a committee chaired by Sagan, also included greetings in 55 languages, various "sounds of Earth" (like wind, crickets, frogs, a dog, a heartbeat, laughter), etchings of Earth images, an hour long recording of Ann Druyan's brainwaves, and music by Mozart, Bach, Chuck Berry, Beethoven, Stravinsky, the aforementioned Blind Willie Johnson, and Animal Collective.
The "A Glorious Dawn" 7" is out 11/9 via Third Man.
Posted at 9:33 AM by brandon in Video
Tags: Carl Sagan | Jack White | Stephen Hawking
Interesting, but just not very musical.
Seems like a Science Public Service Announcement.
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I was thinking of AnCo before I finished reading...AnCo is wothy....
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Trippy! I like it. Forget NASA, it's too bad this wasn't released in time for last night's National Geographic Channel Explorer episode about LSD. It may have evangelized too much unless you consider the guy named "Burning Dan" a cautionary figure, which I do.
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Fantastic!
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This picture has been on Ben Lerner's book Angle of Yaw, Loney, Dear's album Dear John and then this!
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sounds kinda like bizzaro DJ Shadow
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wait. animal collective. voyage golden. 1977. um....
those must have been some really early recordings.
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Yeah it's BS, there's no AnCo in space yall.
If anyone was interested in the story behind the actual gold record, it's recounted quite entertainingly here (www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/12) by the aforementioned Ann Druyan.
Radiolab is amazing BTW, the episode on musical language would go over well here.
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Weird. What made people in the 70s think that any alien lifeforms (assuming they're out there) that got ahold of the golden vinyl would actually have a record player and play at? Who's to say they wouldn't eat it, throw it away, burn it, put it in a museum, play Ultimate Frisbee with it (the most likely outcome, really) or any other number of things aliens would do with a strange golden disc.
I can't believe we spent millions of dollars on this stuff in the 70s. My head hurts.
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Ignorance is like hydrogen. Everywhere.
Maybe you should learn about the Voyager project before running your mouth off.
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Somewhere a high school science teacher just came.
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Jack White's been smoking crack again, run for your livers!
Wait... Jack watches YouTube, I feel deceived yet again.
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My friend loves Carl Sagan and was all over this when it came out on youtube. I think you need the visual aspect along with the music for this to work. I do think it's cool that Third Man is releasing it. Also, how can they legally release this...?
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You're an idiot. Why don't you read the whole thing?
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