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17. Queen’s Queens
Edda Moser, on tour through integer sequences that culminate in the evil numbers (0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15 …), keyed in some obscure way by frequency. This seems to be an alien recognition of the annoying precision of some of the Voyager Record pieces, which is of a piece with the patronizing tone of the instructional ideograms. The listener will detect the sound of leather pants, bending gently at the knee.
