''Pharos'' is the second studio album by the

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when ...

ambient Ambient or Ambiance or Ambience may refer to: Music and sound * Ambience (sound recording), also known as atmospheres or backgrounds * Ambient music, a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere * ''Ambient'' (album), by Moby * ...

group

Seti The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other p ...

, which was released in 1995.

Track listing

Disc 1: "Arecibo"

# ".beacon01" – 18:53 # ".beacon02" – 6:17 # ".beacon03" – 6:20 # ".beacon04" – 4:34 # ".beacon05" – 6:07 # ".beacon06" – 6:54 # ".beacon07" – 4:47

Disc 2: "Phoenix"

# ".beacon08" – 11:31 # ".beacon09" – 4:04 # ".beacon10" – 7:15 # ".beacon11" – 2:11 # ".beacon12" – 5:39 # ".beacon13" – 9:25 # ".beacon14" – 14:06

Notes

The liner notes contain a short introduction to

SETI The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other p ...

written by

Frank Drake Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist. He began his career as a radio astronomer, studying the planets of the Solar System and later pulsars. Drake expanded his interests ...

, an essay by Madison Blue, and descriptions of the

Arecibo message The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than ...

, the

Drake equation The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. The equation was formulated in 1961 by Frank Drake, not for purposes of quantifying t ...

, Project Phoenix, and a history of SETI in

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedi ...

. The recorded 1974 Arecibo message is also found in the music itself, as are recordings of radio telescopes receiving various types of

pulsar A pulsar (from ''pulsating radio source'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward E ...

s. The track ".beacon01" features the voice of Frank Drake giving an introduction to the SETI project.

References

{{Authority control 1995 albums SETI (band) albums Instinct Records albums Ambient albums by American artists