A Glorious Dawn

[Bla]

Ok, after hearing about all the "doomsday predictions" of our US-forum, I thought I'd share something with you. What could it be?

YouTube - A Glorious Dawn

It's a (music) video with parts from Cosmos, a series of video from 1980, and Stephen Hawking's Universe from 1997, where Carl Sagan's and Stephen Hawking's voices have been adjusted, plus some music being added, so it sounds like a song. It's very well done, I think. I don't know if it sounds so exciting at first, but it helps a lot if you read the lyrics (in the video description) and hear it a few more times. I really love the lyrics, Carl Sagan was such a clever person.

Lyrics:

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of The Milky Way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting

[deoxy99]

Why make a song about the universe when you can make a song about something else?

By the way, what is genre is this song? Rock? Pop? Custom?

[atomic7732]

I don't like your first question.  lol

The genre... Hmmm... Hmmm... Give me a minute *200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 million years later comes back* I don't know. I tried and figured a formula of 5/(6x)-3/2yz^2=g after extensive reasearch, and it gives no answer.

[atomic7732]

Good song, but I'd call that 'The Rising of the Milky Way'.

[Dan Dixon]

By the way, what is genre is this song? Rock? Pop? Custom?

I think it's probably:
Electronica > Downtempo

http://www.rhapsody.com/electronica-dance/downtempo

It's not Rock or Pop.

[Bla]

Lol, how great you could tell me about the genre, and I didn't need to ask. I really needed to know what genre it was, I don't know anything about music, so...
Electronica downtempo... On Wikipedia I also think I saw something about electronic, so probably.

[deoxy99]

Is it like the first song on the animusic DVD?

[deoxy99]

I haven't listened to this because it is about everything I already know about the universe.

[Bla]

You don't know if you would learn something new about the universe before you've heard it.
The best quality in it isn't the facts, I would say, but the thoughts Carl Sagan's Mighty Brain is producing about the universe. And anyways, it has some nice pictures and the music sounds good.

[Bla]

There is more music like A Glorious Dawn on Symphony of Science's homepage.
Isn't it an awesome idea to mix Science and music, instead of all the boring music where people just talk about their feelings?