Rock Stars

日本語要約

高校で音波は真空を伝わらないと習うものの、人類は宇宙や天体の音を想像せずにはいられない。実際の音が存在しないなか、ピタゴラスの「天球の音楽」からミレニアム・ファルコンのエンジン音、シュトックハウゼンの「シリウス」における不気味な木管楽器に至るまで、人類は宇宙の音を創作してきた。

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We learn in high school that sound waves do not travel through a vacuum and that all planets and stars therefore traverse space in silence. Yet despite the efforts of underpaid schoolteachers around the world, it seems that people cannot resist imagining the sounds of space and, more importantly, of celestial bodies. In the absence of actual sound, humans have simply invented what outer space ought to sound like, from Pythagoras’ musica universalis to the vrooming of Millennium Falcon and the spooky woodwinds in Stockhausen’s “Sirius.” Unlimited access to our … is a literary scholar, opera critic, and telenovela aficionado currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts. He wrote his doctoral dissertation (Harvard) on melodramas. More by João Marcos Copertino

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