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Music and the Cosmos

Smithsonian Music

These objects from Smithsonian collections represent ways in which artists, musicians, and scientists have reached out to the cosmos and tried to capture the poetic relationship between music and our universe. Some objects have actually been part of our journey to outer space, while others are artistic imaginings of the universe reaching out to us here on planet Earth. 


The Mothership

Record, Voyager, Sounds of Earth

Animal Music for the Spheres

Gold plated disc with etched designs on the surface. At top left is a circle depicting the record. The dashes along the outer edge, in binary code, show the proper rotational speed for playing the record.

Record, Cover, Voyager (Duplicate)

"When You Wish Upon a Star"

Music Box, Sputnik Model

Former Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Composes Music from the Sounds of the Universe

Angels, Sketch for Anzio

Space Scoop: Please Don't Stop the Music!

Space Oddity; Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud

The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music

Aerial flight galop brillante Edgar Dupont

“There's Frost on the Moon”

Bells, Gemini 6

Star Dust; Star Dust

The maid in the moon lyrics and music by Carleton Lee Colby

Celestial Drummer

“Moon Over Miami”

The Marv'lous Work Behold, from the portfolio The Creation

“Why is The Moon Always Shining”

The Moon At Suzaku Gate: Hakuga Sammi, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi) 「朱雀門の月 博雅三位」 『月百姿』

Yasumasa Fujiwara Playing The Flute, Under The Full Moon

Serenade

Moon at Gojō Bridge, from the series Snow, Moon and Flowers Mitate setsugetsuka no uchi, Gojōbashi no tsuki 見立雪月花之内 五條橋之月

“My Blue Heaven”

"Just One Word of Consolation"

“My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon”

When The Moon Shines

Sun Ra, 1990

Award, Statue, MTV Video Music Awards, blank

Music Lesson

Drum

Everyone's Gone to the Moon

Music on Flight Deck

Tall Case Clock


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