The Pulse of Life: Music of Our World and Beyond

September 13, 2002 | Source: Space.com

Could ET understand terrestrial music? Composer Andrew Kaiser suggests that music may communicate “something of our consciousness that is essentially human, regardless of the civilization from which it emerges.”

Even if ET is deaf, the language of music could communicate meaning because of its precise mathematically structure, he believes.

Spectral analysis of a musical selection by Hildegaard of Bingen. CREDIT: Andrew Kaiser

Spectral analysis of a musical selection by Hildegaard of Bingen. CREDIT: Andrew Kaiser