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When we think about the possibility of contact between humanity and an alien civilization, we immediately ask a multitude important issues. How hard it will be to enter this contact? Can we recognize the alien attempt first establish communication with us? Will the earthly race understand a culture that is completely beyond our perception of the world? Are we finally recognizing the art of the “green men”? Will be to enjoy it?
Take, for example, music, considered by many inhabitants of the Earth the most important and comprehensive form of art, and perhaps even one type of communication between different nations and races. IN British scientific journal “Scientific Reports” recently published the results of a curious study regarding potential alien music. Scientists suggest that aliens must also have a concept of music, and man will be able to understand it easier than you can imagine, however will certainly encounter some of its subtleties, as certain forms of communication.
The authors of the article say that our civilization is hardly the first will come in contact with aliens. We still don’t have any instruments for communication with far space, and even flights of earthlings for millions of light-years from the home planet and all look clean science fiction. Studies show that a person will not be able to long survive outside the earth. This means that if contact occurs, then its initiators, in all likelihood, will be the aliens.
This means that they will be much more advanced than we are you. Consequently, the music of the “green men” may well turn out to be more complex and perfect than what you’re used to people. Scientists cite pop music and classics as examples. Pop music is very simple and straightforward, it’s good suitable for entertainment or relaxation, but quickly bored and not can satisfy the aesthetic needs of a more demanding listener.
Meanwhile, classical music is often complex forms and is more difficult to perceive, but at the same time gives the listener a whole range of new emotions. Academic Musician Vincent Menzies, one of the authors of the study, believes that music of representatives of extraterrestrial civilization who wish coming into contact with us will most likely be much more sophisticated and sophisticated than the greatest earthly works, say Mozart or Tchaikovsky.
Alien music will help us understand aliens
In other words, Menzies suggests that even the most intricate music of earthlings will seem to guests from another planet extremely primitive, like pop music, to a connoisseur of classics. Wherein we may not even guess what musical instruments aliens use what are the vocal preferences of these creatures, what is their writing talent, etc. Their music can turn out to be so beautiful and incredible that it will open in us feelings outside the usual emotional range. And exactly music will facilitate more easy and harmonious communication between aliens and earthlings.
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Menzies and his colleagues tried to get a similar “extraterrestrial” composition using a symphony orchestra, electronic technologies, folk instruments, sounds of nature and space (more precisely, various transformed into acoustic waves space signals). However, the result is researchers turned out to be not at all impressive, losing even to creativity many contemporary non-academic composers. About nothing revelation is out of the question.
Many works of art raise the question communication and cultural barriers between people with extraterrestrial mind. For example, in 2016 came highly praised by the audience the sci-fi film “Arrival”, filmed on the novel American Ted Chan. It tells about a female linguist, trying to decipher the language of aliens that does not obey our perception of time, which allows its carriers look into the future. It seems that alien music will also become us a real surprise, although, on the other hand, it is music, by the opinion of today’s researchers should help more easily overcome the communication barrier between the various comic the races …
