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NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman plays a flute aboard the International Space Station in 2011.. Music in space is music played in or broadcast from a spacecraft in outer space. [1] [failed verification] The first ever song that was performed in space was a Ukrainian song “Watching the sky...” [2] (“Дивлюсь я на небо”) sang on 12 August 1962 by Pavlo Popovych, cosmonaut ...
The Voyager Golden Record contains 116 images and a variety of sounds. The items for the record, which is carried on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Included are natural sounds (including some made by animals), musical selections from different ...
Space music typically evokes a sense of spatial imagery and emotion or sensations of floating, cruising, flying and other transportative sensations. Space music, also called spacemusic or space ambient, is a subgenre of ambient music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving". It is derived from new-age music and is associated with ...
The golden record's location on Voyager (middle-bottom-left) The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. [ 1 ] The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent ...
Space-themed music. Space-themed music is any music, from any genre or style, with lyrics or titles relating to outer space or spaceflight. Songs or other musical forms influenced by the concept of outer space have appeared in music throughout history, both in instrumental and vocal pieces with lyrics. As early as Ancient Greece, Pythagoras ...
Spatial music is composed music that intentionally exploits sound localization. Though present in Western music from biblical times in the form of the antiphon , as a component specific to new musical techniques the concept of spatial music ( Raummusik , usually translated as " space music ") was introduced as early as 1928 in Germany.
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [1][2][3] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [4] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [5]
Karlheinz Stockhausen (German: [kaʁlˈhaɪnts ˈʃtɔkhaʊzn̩] ⓘ; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important [1][2][3][4] but also controversial [5] composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having ...