The mexican musician Felipe Pérez Santigo did not imagine that after to compose diverse soundtracks for films of directors What Alejandro González Iñárritu The Guillermo del Toro, I would have to perform music to aliens.
The Mexican collaborates with the Institute for the Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI, for its acronym in English), which was founded in 1984 by Jill Tarter, the prestigious American astronomer and since then the institution has observed space waiting to find any intelligent alien life sign.
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Perez Santiago is part of Earth Project, a SETI initiative through which a musical message of the human race will be sent to the space.
“Those responsible for the Institute contacted me and proposed to create a construction site musical that represents humanity in case of contacting a possible intelligence alien. I loved the idea of putting science and art to work together; Wasn’t Leonardo Da Vinci both a scientist and an artist? ”, He said in an interview to the BBC the musician.
The Earth Project it means for the creator a “fantastic opportunity” thanks to which “millions of people could have a voice”.
But in addition to the Mexican artist, the possibility of participating in the project is open to anyone, from anywhere in the world, since they will be able to send a recording singing something with which they identify.
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“It can be a lullaby, a funeral song; Whatever, ”Pérez Santiago highlighted, adding that they have already received thousands of audios from different parts of the planet.
The musician will create a series of compositions musicals with voices Of all those who participate, only the human voice will be the protagonist without musical instruments.
The first composition will be released to the Luna, aboard a space rocket whose takeoff It is scheduled for next June. The creations will be recorded in nickel discs “Practically indestructible”, designed to last thousands of years, he stressed.
This is not the first time music has been put into orbit. In 1997 two Voyager probes of NASA, the United States space agency, transported disks that are already more than 18 billion kilometers from Earth.
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Those discs contained works by great composers like Bach and Beethoven, among others, and on this occasion anyone will be able to participate and make their voice sound in space.
The objective of Earth ProjectAs the American astronomer explained, it is not only to contact possible remote civilizations, but also for humans to bear in mind the limits of the small and fragile role that their species plays in the cosmos.
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now Tarter, phenomena such as pandemic and the climate change show that humans “face challenges that have to be solved through global cooperation“.
For Pérez Santiago, the Earth Project “Seeks above all to launch a unity message. If we achieve that, we will have fulfilled our mission ”, he emphasized.
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