I had chosen the following digitized musical pieces from the Voyager’s Golden Record (Bevisangue, 2008) on the premise of representation rather than popularity. Content is often popularized due to its ability to be shared and viewed. Just as the digitized musical pieces had been chosen on their merit to portray the diversity of culture on Earth, narrowing down the twenty-seven tracks to ten posed quite the difficult task. I feel the pieces I have chosen accurately represented the world upon the Voyager’s departure and resemble the diversity that the digitization of the original works hoped to preserve.

Wedding song – Peru

Tchakrulo – Choir – Georgia

Men’s house song – Papua New Guinea

Morning Star and Devil Bird- Australia

Navajo Night Chant – America

Melancholy Blues-L Armstrong&HisHotSeven

Fairie Round – cond David Munroe

Flowing Streams – China

Bach – Gavotte en Rondo – A Grumiaux

Tchenhoukoumen, percussion Senegal