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Oregon Band Performs Original Sagan Song.
Looking around for new Sagan content I came across another song called ‘Carl Sagan’. This tune is written and performed by the Portland (OR) ensemble, Loch Lomond.
It can be a little difficult to understand the vocals at first, but eventually they do clear up.
And if any member of Loch Lomond comes across this post, please know that I’d love to include a recording of this song in the ‘Sounds of Sagan’ audio player.
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a Pale Blue Dot
The Icecore Scientist put together this song and film called Pale Blue Dot. They dedicate it to ‘Carl and his wife, Ann Druyan.’
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StokedSkate.
The band SAGAN just sent us a Carl Sagan inspired song to add to the Sounds of Sagan. It is called StokedSkate.
SAGAN has worked on a film that has been informed by the good Doctor and Cosmos. You can read more about their film, Unseen Forces, here, and more about SAGAN there.
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A Poem for the Celebration
Carl Sagan’s works have profoundly influenced my life for the better and informed my whole way of thinking. I’m glad he lived.
I’m including a poem inspired in part by “Pale Blue Dot.” This poem uses religious terms – ‘God,’ ‘Hallelujah,’ but they aren’t intended in a literal, theistic sense. They have resonance because of my upbringing and my culture, but one could replace them with similar words from any culture for the same effect. I think, somehow, Mr. Sagan would have liked it. So here’s my contribution.
- John Sisk
In Good Humor
Cold cables carry warm laughter;
Dark night gently cradles bright-eyed lovers on through morning;
The sun rises and the sun sets.
Brave-chested birds, blue like sky-flecks, like star-flecks,
Like chords from God’s guitar, strut and fly like
The shining gossamer of memory through forests
As green as the eyes of meaning:
Islands in the deep Pacific, themselves born
From spurting streams of rock-as-liquid, are
Stone-as-annihilation from some subterranean sea of fire,
That sea itself the hidden, brilliant rind of the world-fruit,
Tossing brief on a lonely limb of the Universe.
What then is the music of our solitary sphere?
The seed sings the tree, the tree
Sings the leaf, and the leaf’s song
Is the flower, that blood-bright jewel
That kisses my eye for an hour
And leaves as Beauty does:
A gloaming hope, a gleaming vision, and -
Gone, leaving only fragrance.
I sing Hallelujah.
- Copyright John Sisk 2004.
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Cosmos and Love
When I was at turbulent time, I wrote this poem dedicated to a girl I loved inspired by Cosmos and by Mr. Sagan.
Los átomos de tu cuerpo
Alguna vez leí
que en el inicio del universo,
todos los átomos
que componen la materia que lo forma
estaban tan comprimidos que ocupaban el mismo espacio.
Entonces imagino,
todos los átomos
que componen las moléculas
que componen tu cuerpo,
y el mío,
ocupando el mismo espacio…
Thank you for everything, Carl Sagan
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ReAnimated.
Hello. My name is Andrew Lyman, I am a scientist who bungled his way into Art School instead. I maintain a number of blogs, but I made a post for Dr. Sagan on my Young Team Manager Blog today in honor of the 10th Anniversary of his death.
The image was made as a joke by me about the fact that I won the affection of my current girlfriend through (A) A ReAnimator T-shirt, and (B) Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Yes, she almost went home that fateful night, but when she asked what I my evening had in store, I did not lie, I
said: Probably just read, watch some more of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and go to bed. She was intrigued and has thus, stuck around for 9 months now (a purely factual and in no way symbolic amount of time).
But all that aside, Carl Sagan and Lewis Thomas were my two absolute role models. Darby Crash and Jello Biafra got thrown into the mix later and I ended up with a BFA in Experimental Animation, but the one common aspiration in my life has been that of the philosopher scientist. I can think of no nobler goal. All I hope is that there will be increasingly more and more kids growing up with role models like this.
All the best to all of you. Have the fun.
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Missing Carl Sagan
Bonnie-Ann Black writes:
I realized back in august, just before attending WorldCon, that Carl Sagan had been gone an incredible 10 years. I did several art pieces to sell at the convention, some of them prints, and they did sell fairly well. In tribute to the man and his work, I’m participating in the blog-a-thon on my website: www.dubhsidhestudios.com.
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My Homage…
While I don’t want to plug my own music, my wife and I have a band called SAGAN and we released a cd/dvd movie called “Unseen Forces” – which is VERY informed by COSMOS. Here’s the trailer:
I still miss him.
Thats all.
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When Carl Sagan Died, an Encore.
I was a geology major in college, and probably would have majored in astronomy had my college offered it. I also did graduate work in planetariums, and almost made that a career, but in the end, music won out.
Carl was a light in the darkness for me as he was for so many.
I wrote the song after seeing Ann Druyan interviewed on Charlie Rose. This was just after Contact had come out, and shortly after he had died. Charlie and Ann were talking about Carl and the movie, and her sadness was palpable. I could see on her face how deeply she missed him. My heart went out to her and I wanted to offer her some kind of comfort.
From their writings, I knew how they both felt about life after death (not likely!), but I thought, why not at least be open to the idea? So that’s where the song comes from.
Thanks again, and great job on the site. I’ll spread the word in my newsletter.
Injoy,
Greg
WHEN CARL SAGAN DIED
by Greg Tamblyn
When Carl Sagan died I felt surprising sadness
For someone I’d admired from afar
I found that he’d inspired me to think in new dimensions
And I shared his sense of wonder at the stars
I saw him first in college, late night on Johnny Carson
His enthusiasm was contagious
I thought he had a great mind and I loved his sense of humor
And Cosmos was a show for all the ages
Now I am trained in science too, a geology degree
I love astronomical ideas
When time and space are measured in billions and billions
And I can’t pass up a good science museum
I saw his wife Ann Druyan on TV, she seemed so sad
They both felt death is final and forever
It must be so difficult living while believing
They’ll never ever once more be together
I also felt God and the afterlife an empty notion
Till I read the words of mystics down through time
Their accounts of higher consciousness were somehow familiar
And lifted me to thoughts new and sublime
Like this notion that the impulse of creation springs from love
Is it only wishful thinking on my part
That you and I are waves that will return to some great ocean
And while here we are connected at the heart
So nowadays I’m thinking that it’s possible, it could be
That consciousness lives on in unknown ways
Maybe we move on to higher planes and new existence
Or even live again with some new face
So I want to tell his wife Ann I wish I could give her comfort
I think Carl’s spirit still lives on
Oh wouldn’t it be something if when her time here is over
There was Carl saying, “Hi Hon, I was wrong”
© 1999 Ramblin’ Tamblyn Music, BMI
To read more about Greg and his music please visit his website www.gregtamblyn.com.
You can listen to this song in the Sounds of Sagan, or you can purchase the CD here.
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When Carl Sagan Died
I’m writing to share with you one of the most wonderful songs I’ve ever heard. The subject of the song is Carl Sagan and it’s entitled, When Carl Sagan Died.
It is written and performed by an amazing guy named Greg Tamblyn. I first heard him sing this in church one day and went and bought all his CDs.
This song is so touching. It deals with his memories of Carl Sagan and the ending is the ultimate in compassion.
Geoff, Illinois
Listen to the song in the Sounds of Sagan, located in the sidebar.
You can purchase the CD here.
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