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- "Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti Mix)" (1996), fourth track on the electronica album Songs of a Dead Dreamer by DJ Spooky. The track features a guitar ostinato in the foreground, combined with hydrophonic Moog sequences in the early measures, followed by extensive mixing with humpback whale songs through the end of the piece. Note that the star Tau Ceti is in the tail of the whale (the constellation Cetus).
- A Constellation of Tau Ceti (2001), translation by George Tokarev of the Russian language satirical song В созвездии Тау Кита (1966) by Vladimir Vysotsky. Vysotsky makes fun of astronomer Frank Drake's 1960 attempted contact with the supposed inhabitants of Tau Ceti (Their bourgeois system is naughty / Their humor is nasty and dirty!) in a ballad that describes the singer's putative visit to the star, whose female inhabitants no longer need men, having turned to inoculations for procreation. He hastens home, knowing that because of time dilation several ages will have passed here, and fearing that the women of Earth will have engineered similar advances in the nonce.
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