[Music]
hello howdy good day
hey there before those four greetings
that I just shared
you heard many more but even if you
don’t speak Bengali or adieu Sumerian /
Mandarin Chinese you likely understood
that they were expressions of goodwill
what does it mean to communicate to
someone who doesn’t speak your language
just now on the organ Christophe bull
spoke to us but he didn’t use words he
used the musical language of Bach and
then he deconstructed Bach to create a
new musical grammar to move us to
transport us to talk to us through sound
while he played a series of images
flashed on this screen the images told
the story of humanity of culture of life
on earth without using a single word
those greetings the Bach that Christophe
played so beautifully Thank You
Christophe the images on the screen
they’re all part of the Voyager Golden
Record that’s now almost 13 billion
miles from Earth in 1977 NASA launched
two spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
on a grand tour of the solar system and
beyond deep into the mysteries of
interstellar space providing for us
these priceless images and many more of
our planetary neighbourhood attached to
each spacecraft is a stunning golden
phonograph record a message from our
civilization to extraterrestrials who
might encounter the probes perhaps
billions of years from now the Voyager
record contains the story of Earth as
expressed in sights and sounds and
science Earth’s greatest music from Bach
and Beethoven to Blind Willie Johnson to
Chuck Berry West African percussion and
Solomon Island panpipes dozens of
natural sounds of our planet
birds humpback whales a locomotive the
rain human laughter a kiss all woven
into a lovely audio poem called sounds
of Earth as a graphic designer myself my
studio has been working with a record
label this year to release the Voyager
record on vinyl here on earth for the
first time ever and I’m here to share
why it matters today you heard some of
the records 55 greetings spoken in human
languages and viewed many of the images
encoded on the phonographs ashed on the
gold-plated aluminum jacket is this
diagram explaining where it came from
and how to play it
none of the creators took
for granted that extraterrestrials would
actually understand Hebrew Sumerian or
Nepali those greetings were meant to
express the spirit of the project for
the inhabitants of this planet you see
the Voyager record was a gift from
humanity to the cosmos but it was also a
gift to humanity a message of goodwill
to anyone out there but also to those of
us down here Carl Sagan led the
committee that put the record together
he said the launching of this bottle
into the cosmic ocean says something
very hopeful about life on this planet
the creative minds behind the content of
the record agreed from the outset that
the interstellar message should not
include images of war or poverty or
disease that the message should reflect
positively on earth that it should
reflect humanity at its best it’s an
idealistic self-portrait and it’s one we
can aspire to and as we consider how to
explain ourselves to others out there we
begin to consider who we are in a much
deeper way so who are you what do you
have to say for yourself and how will
you say it we need to send new messages
and models we need to send new messages
of goodwill new messages that remind us
of who we are when we are at our best
and we need to set them to each other
here on earth today the Voyager record
it’s true the Voyager record it lies at
the intersection of science and art to
spark the imagination it provokes
questions about our place in the
universe it opens our minds to
possibilities and it serves as a
reminder that the future really is up to
us we need to be reminded of that we
need you to spread the message thank you
[Applause]
[Applause]
hello howdy good day
hey there before those four greetings
that I just shared
you heard many more but even if you
don’t speak Bengali or adieu Sumerian /
Mandarin Chinese you likely understood
that they were expressions of goodwill
what does it mean to communicate to
someone who doesn’t speak your language
just now on the organ Christophe bull
spoke to us but he didn’t use words he
used the musical language of Bach and
then he deconstructed Bach to create a
new musical grammar to move us to
transport us to talk to us through sound
while he played a series of images
flashed on this screen the images told
the story of humanity of culture of life
on earth without using a single word
those greetings the Bach that Christophe
played so beautifully Thank You
Christophe the images on the screen
they’re all part of the Voyager Golden
Record that’s now almost 13 billion
miles from Earth in 1977 NASA launched
two spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
on a grand tour of the solar system and
beyond deep into the mysteries of
interstellar space providing for us
these priceless images and many more of
our planetary neighbourhood attached to
each spacecraft is a stunning golden
phonograph record a message from our
civilization to extraterrestrials who
might encounter the probes perhaps
billions of years from now the Voyager
record contains the story of Earth as
expressed in sights and sounds and
science Earth’s greatest music from Bach
and Beethoven to Blind Willie Johnson to
Chuck Berry West African percussion and
Solomon Island panpipes dozens of
natural sounds of our planet
birds humpback whales a locomotive the
rain human laughter a kiss all woven
into a lovely audio poem called sounds
of Earth as a graphic designer myself my
studio has been working with a record
label this year to release the Voyager
record on vinyl here on earth for the
first time ever and I’m here to share
why it matters today you heard some of
the records 55 greetings spoken in human
languages and viewed many of the images
encoded on the phonographs ashed on the
gold-plated aluminum jacket is this
diagram explaining where it came from
and how to play it
none of the creators took
for granted that extraterrestrials would
actually understand Hebrew Sumerian or
Nepali those greetings were meant to
express the spirit of the project for
the inhabitants of this planet you see
the Voyager record was a gift from
humanity to the cosmos but it was also a
gift to humanity a message of goodwill
to anyone out there but also to those of
us down here Carl Sagan led the
committee that put the record together
he said the launching of this bottle
into the cosmic ocean says something
very hopeful about life on this planet
the creative minds behind the content of
the record agreed from the outset that
the interstellar message should not
include images of war or poverty or
disease that the message should reflect
positively on earth that it should
reflect humanity at its best it’s an
idealistic self-portrait and it’s one we
can aspire to and as we consider how to
explain ourselves to others out there we
begin to consider who we are in a much
deeper way so who are you what do you
have to say for yourself and how will
you say it we need to send new messages
and models we need to send new messages
of goodwill new messages that remind us
of who we are when we are at our best
and we need to set them to each other
here on earth today the Voyager record
it’s true the Voyager record it lies at
the intersection of science and art to
spark the imagination it provokes
questions about our place in the
universe it opens our minds to
possibilities and it serves as a
reminder that the future really is up to
us we need to be reminded of that we
need you to spread the message thank you
[Applause]
[Applause]
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