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sonhouse
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31 May '18 23:02
Originally posted by @divegeester
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This popped into my mind
They would probably get bored with the opening....
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31 May '18 23:581 edit
Originally posted by @sonhouse
You could do worse. Showing a lute virtuoso or guitar virtuoso would be nice too.
Julian Bream and John Williams or Ida Presti and Alexander LaGoya guitar duo would impress I imagine.
Or how about that cat song you and Duchess 64 make when your twig and berries get a sniff of the bat cave?

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01 Jun '18 01:11
Originally posted by @uzless
[b]Imagine for a moment that there are other living beings out there. Imagine there are millions of them on millions of different planets.

Now imagine that none of them have invented music. Imagine one day we reach space and meet the rest of the universe. One day, all the different species decide to get together via intersteller communciation and presen ...[text shortened]... s the entire Universe. Our place, our mark among the stars.....for eternity.

What would we play?
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01 Jun '18 06:551 edit
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sonhouse
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01 Jun '18 13:03
Originally posted by @torunn
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These pieces of music are all beautiful to US anyway, but consider this:
our hearing lfrequency range is say 20 to 20K hertz or so. Suppose said aliens hear only like a bat or dolphin, say 50 Khz to 5 MEGAhertz? They would be unable to even hear what we are playing.
We can play tricks with the sound, say convert our 20 to 20K up converted in frequency to say ten time up, 200 Kilohertz to 2 megahertz but it would take experimentation to find out what up conversion they would be able to consider it music. It could be they would not like it unless it was say 12.3 times our normal range or some such.

Or the other way, suppose they hear only from 1/10th hertz to 20 hertz like the low end of elephant hearing. I don't think in that case there would be any way we could convert our music range to anything they could comprehend.

So we are supplying what we all think is great music and it certainly is to us but our projected aliens would need to have hearing in roughly the same range as ours.

Then again suppose they only communicate with colored light, like octopus skin but more like specialized very fast color change organs.

We would have another barrier to communicate with them.

Or suppose they communicate with wafts of smell, good luck getting them to understand our music......

So it all depends on exactly what kind of alien senses they possess.

They could conceivably communicate with some kind of radio wave and that has a huge range of frequencies and that range would depend on what kind of radio emitting organ it can send and receive on.
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01 Jun '18 13:11
Originally posted by @sonhouse
These pieces of music are all beautiful to US anyway, but consider this:
our hearing lfrequency range is say 20 to 20K hertz or so. Suppose said aliens hear only like a bat or dolphin, say 50 Khz to 5 MEGAhertz? They would be unable to even hear what we are playing.
We can play tricks with the sound, say convert our 20 to 20K up converted in frequency t ...[text shortened]... ies and that range would depend on what kind of radio emitting organ it can send and receive on.
Taking all this into consideration, at least we could say: We did our best. 🙂
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01 Jun '18 16:55
Originally posted by @torunn
Taking all this into consideration, at least we could say: We did our best. 🙂
"So the latest generation of sound to whiff generator has produced noticeable results, we seem to be communicating on a low basis for now'
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01 Jun '18 23:49
Originally posted by @uzless
Imagine for a moment that there are other living beings out there. Imagine there are millions of them on millions of different planets.

Now imagine that none of them have invented music. Imagine one day we reach space and meet the rest of the universe. One day, all the different species decide to get together via intersteller communciation and presen ...[text shortened]... mark among the stars.....for eternity.

What would we play?

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02 Jun '18 19:35
Originally posted by @whodey
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What would you do if they communicated by sniffs and whiffs of chemicals instead of sound and if sound, if they heard starting at 50 kilohertz up to 50 megahertz?
Or if they communicated by light pulses or radio waves instead and were deaf?
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08 Jun '18 03:47
Originally posted by @sonhouse
What would you do if they communicated by sniffs and whiffs of chemicals instead of sound and if sound, if they heard starting at 50 kilohertz up to 50 megahertz?
Or if they communicated by light pulses or radio waves instead and were deaf?
Oh i'm sure they'd start demanding special treatment and demand that those with ears be given less important jobs in the universe due to their centuries of listening privilege.

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