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Looking Up
Star gazing, it’s hard not to feel small...and lonely. Maybe that’s why it’s so irresistible to look out into all that darkness and see our own reflection staring us back, like Narcissus gazing into the pool. On this episode of Radio Lab, we reflect on our romance with, projections upon, and insignificance within space. We begin by joining some sky watchers at Fire Island to see what they see. Then, we take a trip to see Ann Druyan, one of the creators of the 1977 Golden Album included on the Voyager probes. We invited composer Philip Glass to remix this album.
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»Amateur Observers' Society of New York
»Voyager Golden Record
»Hear Philip Glass' Music
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I was just listening to this show on WAMU in DC (February 3, 2008) and thought you would like to know that the European cultural channel, ARTE, produced a major television evening on this subject on October 28, 2006, when they beamed their whole program into outer space. The program is called "Cosmic Connexion" and there is a website about it. Your listeners will find it of interest, I think. http://www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/CosmicConnexion/1044078.html
A summary of the program is showing in Washington, DC on Sunday, Feb 10 at the French Embassy's Maison Française, as part of the series called "Best of INPUT, the International Public Television Screening Conference." More at http://input-tv.org/publish/detail.html?news_id=68
So, I realize this might peg me as a bit of a philistine... but, what's the name of the Bach piece playing behind the Philip Glass segment?
Does anyone know the name/composer of the music used in the opening of this section?
Does anyone know the name of the music used in the opening of this section?
To Jacob Reed and Caryn (maybe), look for
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007.
cheers
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