SETI-X's "Scrambles of Earth" now available

Did aliens plan for Seeland Records to release “Scrambles of Earth” on Carl Sagan Day? Probably.

SETI-X presents remixes by extraterrestrials of the Voyager Interstellar Record launched into space in 1977.

Learn more about the Voyager Interstellar Record launched in 1977 via Wikipedia.

Read about the alien response and the SETI-X project in the Yale Daily News.

PLAY THESE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

[MP3]: “Uranium Nations/Hello Children”

[MP3]: “Pulsar Plus”

[MP3]: “Visit To The Observatory”

[MP3]: “Psychlo Killer/Total Transmission”

[MP3]: “I Am Getting Married In A Spaceship”



About SETI-X (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile):
Scrambles of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Remixed by Extraterrestrials.

The Center For Inquiry is celebrating Carl Sagan Day today, coincidentally the same day that Seeland Records releases its SETI-X project which presents remixes of the material from the Voyager Interstellar Record launched into space by NASA in 1977. In the wake of the viral success of the YouTube video of an autotuned Carl Sagan signing “A Glorious Dawn” (which Jack White of The White Stripes released in 2009 as a 45RPM single (LINK) on his Third Man Records label,) this disc fills in more background info on Sagan’s other foray into sound: the Voyager Interstellar Record.

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft, fastening to each a phonograph album containing sounds and music of Earth. In 2010, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile (SETI-X), a dissident offshoot of the better-known Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, received transmissions believed to be extraterrestrial remixes of these records. The Scrambles of Earth CD contains the 70 minutes — in some 24 sound segments — that SETI-X has so far been able to reconstruct.

The Voyager Interstellar Record, a collection of Earth sound and music sent into space (WIKI), is a noted cultural artifact — with a long life in popular imagination and culture: from references in Star Trek, X-Files, Futurama, The Transformers series, kids shows (3-2-1 Contact on YOUTUBE) to The Strokes video for “You Only Live Once” (LINK).

Scrambles of Earth collects what appear to be “remixes” of the Voyager Record; although the evidence has yet to be fully evaluated, these may represent the first audio signs of alien intelligence. This account may comport with Hartwig Hausdorf’s May 2010 claim that the Voyager has been hijacked by aliens, as reported in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper HERE.


SETI-X
(The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile)

Scrambles of Earth:
The Voyager Interstellar Record,
Remixed by Extraterrestrials.
(Seeland Records, 11/9/10)

Track Listing:

01. Uranium Nations/Hello Children 0:35
02. Pulsar Plus 2:56
03. Thin Dark Night 3:29
04. Ill-Tempered Wedding 4:24
05. Visit to the Observatory 1:40
06. Rushing Streams 3:00
07. Men’s House Stutter 1:23
08. Shakuhachi Mariachi 3:04
09. Just Cranes 5:11
10. Back in the CCCP 2:48
11. Countdown 0:59
12. Scrambles of Earth/What Earthlings Are Made of 4:30
13. Renaissance Faire Eject/Gasping in Twelve Languages 2:06
14. Queen’s Queens 0:34
15. Fifth World 1:38
16. My Life as a Field of Sheep 5:08
17. Total Transmission 0:10
18. Psychlo Killer/Total Transmission 1:32
19. Fifth Dysphony 4:04
20. The Rites of Mars 3:02
21. I Am Getting Married in a Spaceship 2:03
22. Way Down 2:25
23. Interleave 4:56
24. Elegy for Pluto/Secretary General 6:38