When Aliens come they will want to hear JS Bach, not Sarah Palin

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This past weekend in Santa Clara, California, the SETIcon conference suggested that when Aliens make contact with us, there are things other than politics and science that will attract their attention. The art and music of the non-academic and non-scientific communities could be a source of major fascination to them.

They would have nothing to learn from our primitive science and would have left our boom and bust, strip the planet attitudes in the dust of their past. Assuming they don’t want to eat us or kill us for fun, it will be the culture of the Earthlings that will hold their attention.

Speakers at the conference offered theories that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach would appeal to them because of it’s mathematic and harmonious construction.

As for visual art, comic book artist Paul Duffield suggested showing extra terrestrials examples of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. “The richly three-dimensional, almost photographic representation could be more easily interpretable,” he said. “And it’s very expressive.”

So, if they come and if we can put our weapons down, both us and our curious visitors might learn something.

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13 years ago

Thelonious Monk on keyboard?

13 years ago

I’d love to whip a little John Coltrane on those aliens. That’d shake ’em up more than anything.

13 years ago

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13 years ago

I don’t think aliens will much care about our culture. I suspect most of their starship captains will be enjoying the latest hot tunes from their own planet. You know stuff like:

“Who Put the Black Hole in my Backyard” and that favorite of favorites:

“Wormholes are for Lovers”

Jess
13 years ago

Well, I don’t know about extra terrestrials, but I would rather listen to the ONLY video I will link here than she who must not be named. I won’t link to anything SWMNBN has said, because her voice irritates me. Who would you rather listen to? I would also ask him, why in the beginning of this piece, I constantly miss the same note and could he please fix that for me :).

13 years ago

They could be like Einstein who liked to read dime store novels. I just hope they find us entertaining and amusing, anything but delicious.

13 years ago

Our art depicts our various culture(s) and it accurately represents the ‘story’ of our humanity. Where we came from and where we are choosing to go. Cosmology. Which IS a science. Ancient struggles of political / territorial power are mirrors reflecting the struggle of new awareness and integration of our lessons as individuals. The myth of the Hero’s journey.

I think even Palin learns new ways to be who she chooses to be. It’s apparent in her continuing popularity with
the stuipidest fucking people in our country.
(well, there I lost it… how’s that for some intelligent thinking? NOT)

13 years ago

I could never look at an alien without remembering that Twilight Zone episode where they eventually translate a book that was given to the humans and as the last of them get on the spaceship for the “vacation”, they discover that it is a cookbook with humans as the main course.

13 years ago

I bet space aliens would rather hear the theme-song from the Smurfs and Barney rather than Sarah Palin.

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