Forty years ago to this day, September 5, 1977, NASA rocketed the space probe Voyager I into space. While music theory at that time was busy circling within its own orbit exploring “the music itself,” the astronomer Carl Sagan placed on …

Is musicology limited to human culture? The NASA team that put together the Voyager mission forty years ago didn’t think so. They included on board of their two spacecraft a “Golden Record” that included greetings in more than fifty languages, …