{"title":"Alexander Rehding","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexander Rehding's works explore the intersections of music, culture, and communication, delving into how sound shapes human experience and connects us across time and space. With titles such as \u003cem\u003eAlien Listening – Voyager’s Golden Record\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMusic from Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, his books offer thought-provoking reflections on the role of music in broader cultural and scientific contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analysis that blends arts and culture with philosophy and history, inviting a deeper understanding of music’s significance beyond traditional boundaries. Rehding’s writing appeals to those fascinated by the way sound carries meaning and humanity’s desire to communicate through music.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alien-listening-voyagers-golden-record-and-music-from-earth-by-alexander-rehding-9781942130536","title":"Alien Listening – Voyager′s Golden Record and Music from Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn examination of NASA's Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about—by aliens and humans alike.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1977, NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft contained world music and sounds of Earth to represent humanity to any extraterrestrial civilisations. To date, the Golden Record is the only human-made object to have left the solar system. \u003cem\u003eAlien Listening\u003c\/em\u003e asks the big questions that the Golden Record raises: Can music live up to its reputation as the universal language in communications with the unknown? How do we fit all of human culture into a time capsule that will barrel through space for tens of thousands of years? And last but not least: Do aliens have ears?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stakes could hardly be greater. Around the extreme scenario of the Golden Record, Chua and Rehding develop a thought-provoking, philosophically heterodox, and often humorous Intergalactic Music Theory of Everything, a string theory of communication, an object-oriented ontology of sound, and a Penelopean model woven together from strands of music and media theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe significance of this exomusicology, like that of the Golden Record, ultimately takes us back to Earth and its denizens. By confronting the vast temporal and spatial distances the Golden Record traverses, the authors take listeners out of their comfort zone and offer new perspectives in which music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about—by aliens and humans alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595662213356,"sku":"9781942130536","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781942130536-alien-listening-voyager-s-golden-record-and-music-from-earth.jpg?v=1777899527"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alexander-rehding.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}