

The Golden Record also carries an hour-long recording of the brainwaves of Ann Druyan. It also included the sounds of humpbacked whales from the 1970 album by Roger Payne, Songs of the Humpback Whale.

Brown, Timothy Ferris as producer, and Jimmy Iovine as sound engineer. Goode" was controversial, with some claiming that rock music was "adolescent", to which Sagan replied, "There are a lot of adolescents on the planet." The selection of music for the record was completed by a team composed of Carl Sagan as project director, Linda Salzman Sagan, Frank Drake, Alan Lomax, Ann Druyan as creative director, artist Jon Lomberg, ethnomusicologist Robert E. The disc also includes music by Guan Pinghu, Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar, Valya Balkanska, and electronic composer Laurie Spiegel, as well as Azerbaijani folk music ( Mugham) by oboe player Kamil Jalilov. Bach (interpreted by Glenn Gould), Mozart, Beethoven (played by the Budapest String Quartet), and Stravinsky. The musical selection is also varied, featuring works by composers such as J.S. All measures used on the pictures are defined in the first few images using physical references that are likely to be consistent anywhere in the universe. Some images contain indications of chemical composition. Many pictures are annotated with one or more indications of scales of time, size, or mass. These images show food, architecture, and humans in portraits as well as going about their day-to-day lives. Images of humanity depict a broad range of cultures. Care was taken to include not only pictures of humanity, but also some of animals, insects, plants and landscapes.

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