04-05-2021, 19:55
This track passed me by at the time, but I listened to a recent interview with Vangelis and Space Rocks (ESA) today - a very long interview! Vangelis spoke of how he had been moved to make this music when he learned of Stephen Hawking's death - he sent it to the family as a gift. He perceives people he meets as having a sound (and possibly even those he doesn't meet) which I suppose makes sense given that everything in the universe is oscillating and vibrating. Made me think about a few things.
"Greek composer Vangelis created an original piece of music for the Stephen Hawking memorial service on 15 June 2018. As a tribute from ESA, this music, featuring Prof. Hawking's voice, was beamed into space by ESA’s ESTRACK ground station at Cebreros in Spain at the time his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey in London. The broadcast was beamed towards the nearest black hole to Earth, 1A 0620–00, which lives in a binary system with an orange dwarf star."
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images...y_Vangelis
"Greek composer Vangelis created an original piece of music for the Stephen Hawking memorial service on 15 June 2018. As a tribute from ESA, this music, featuring Prof. Hawking's voice, was beamed into space by ESA’s ESTRACK ground station at Cebreros in Spain at the time his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey in London. The broadcast was beamed towards the nearest black hole to Earth, 1A 0620–00, which lives in a binary system with an orange dwarf star."
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images...y_Vangelis
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson