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The Knife’s Olof Dreijer, More Send Music to the Aliens
No dig on Stravinsky, Chuck Berry, or the Beatles, but can we blame the extraterrestrials if they’re getting a little tired of Earth’s sparse musical offerings by now? Cue noted Swedish techno artist Håkan Lidbo (pictured), who has a plan to blast some slightly more contemporary sounds into outer space for the betterment of beings from all corners of the universe. Wait, why are you laughing? This is serious, man.
Lidbo is currently working in cahoots with the Swedish Space Corporation on a project to send a variety of new electronic music into space via Sweden’s Esrange station– known for offering some of the world’s first commercial space flights in conjunction with Spaceport Sweden and Virgin Galactic.
And just who is contributing to the “Music for Alien Civilisations” project? Naturally, the Knife is involved. Olof Dreijer has recorded a track called “Al Jazeera”, which, as Lidbo describes, presents “the very mechanics from the inside of his computer– the sounds from the circuits and hard drives.”
acho que os aliens vão curtir.
The Knife - Live - Silent Shout [Gothenburg, Sweden, April 12th 2006]
