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Las Calabazas Machacantes musica universalis LAS CALABAZAS MACHACANTES The Smashing Pumpkins es una famosa banda chicaguense de rock alternativo con infl uencias de heavy metal, rock gótico y progresivo, dream pop y electrónica. Muchos de sus temas tienen títulos astronómicos, aunque sus letras casi no tienen nada que ver. l primer álbum de «los es la red paneuropea nanciada Pumpkins» fue Gish por los programas marco FP6 y (1991). Sin embargo, an- FP7 de la UE para coordinar es- tes de comenzar su me- fuerzos de todos los observatorios teórica carrera comer- y centros europeos implicados en E cial, en la canción-rareza ‘Sun’ la construcción de instrumenta- de 1989, William Patrick Billy ción astronómica en el visible y el Corgan caminaba en el Sol y nun- infrarrojo cercano. ca sentía la luz. El segundo ál- bum de The Smashing Pumpkins, 3. ‘The Celestials’. En astrono- Siamese Dream (1993), ha sido mía, tenemos bóveda celeste, me- considerado por la revista Ro- «Océanie». Distintas imágenes del cánica celeste y Celestia, el soft- lling Stone como uno de los me- libreto del CD del álbum Oceania, ware educacional. En cosmología de The Smashing Pumpkins, y un jores de la historia. En él había par de obras de arte relacionadas; clásica, también había «orbes ce- temas titulados ‘Rocket’, ‘Space- entre ellos destacan la cara visible lestiales» (no confundir con los boy’ o ‘Luna’, pero sin absolu- de la Luna, una imagen antigua de «celestiales», las razas imaginarias tamente nada de astronomía en la corona solar durante un eclipse, de Marvel, Star Wars y Dungeons el módulo de comando/servicio sus letras. A pesar de cantar so- CSM-114 America del Apollo 17, & Dragons). bre solsticios, Marte y pistolas de Hathor la diosa del cielo (o Isis con rayos, ‘Spaced’ de Pisces Iscariot el tocado de Hathor) y el Atlas de 4. ‘Violet Rays’. En la paleta de (1994) ni siquiera versaba sobre Farnese. (Cortesía del autor) un pintor, el violeta está entre el ciencia cción. En ‘Pulseczar’ de azul y el púrpura, pero en el es- Earphoria (1994), quizá un guiño pectro electromagnético el vio- a los púlsares (AstronomíA, ene- leta está entre 380 y 450 nm, in- ro 2013), Corgan veía a su amor ja derecha se me enarcó más que cluyendo las líneas atómicas del viniendo desde el cielo, pero no la de Rafa Nadal. Aunque de nue- doblete del calcio ionizado Ca II había nada más. De nuevo, Cor- vo en las letras hay, como mucho, H&K y de la serie de Balmer del gan la besaba a la luz de las es- un «sol que brilla en ti», los títu- hidrógeno neutro desde Hγ has- trellas en ‘By Starlight’ de Me- los se las traen: ta Hε. A longitudes de onda más llon Collie and the In nite Sadness cortas (esto es, frecuencias mayo- (1995). ‘Soot and Stars’ de Judas 1. ‘Quasar’. Los cuásares, o fuen- res), se encuentran el ultravioleta O (2001) y ‘Starz’ y ‘Stellar’ de tes de radio cuasi-estelares, son y, más allá, los rayos X blandos. Zeitgeist (2007) se añaden a la lis- los núcleos galácticos activos ta de canciones de títulos astro- (AGN) más luminosos. Son las re- El próximo álbum de The nómicos con, como mucho, un giones más compactas en el cen- Smashing Pumpkins, Monuments «We are stars, we are» en sus le- tro de galaxias masivas, que ro- to an Elegy (2015), parece no tras. Incluso en el último álbum dean a su agujero negro central traer ningún tema de título astro- por ahora de los Pumpkins, Aero- supermasivo acretante. nómico. ( ) plane Flies High (2013), hay una ‘Star Song’. 2. ‘Panopticon’. El panóptico es En las Navidades pasadas un tipo de arquitectura carcela- José Antonio Caballero mi suegro me regaló el CD de ria y utilitarista de nales del si- es astrofísico en el Centro de Astrobiología. Oceania (2012), uno de los álbu- glo XVIII. Sin embargo, a los as- mes de los Pumpkins que me fal- trónomos europeos, ‘Panopticon’ Para contactar: [email protected]. taban. Cuando vi los títulos de nos suena a OPTICON, Optical Web: exoterrae.eu. los cuatro primeros temas, la ce- Infrared Co-ordination Network, que | octubre 2014 | nº184 | 71 .
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