One of the features that attracted widespread attention was the Mima tapes – that is, taped electro-acoustic music and musique concrète used to represent the sound sequences emanating from a computer-like machine called the mima on board the spaceship Aniara. In 1959 the opera Aniara by Karl-Birger Blomdahl premiered at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. The reader follows the fate of the passengers and crew during the next 24 years as they try to adapt to life in the spaceship. Consequently, she veers off course, setting out on a journey into space with no possibility of ever reaching her destination. Soon after take-off, she is involved in a collision that renders her steering gear nonfunctional. One of these spaceships is called Aniara. A fleet of spacecraft ferry people to Mars and Venus, where the population of the Earth must be evacuated. In 1956 the Swedish poet Harry Martinson published Aniara, a poetic narrative set in a distant future and based on the idea that the Earth has been contaminated with nuclear fallout from atomic bombs and has become uninhabitable.
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