Choosing 10 pieces of music to represent humans to extraterrestrial life was a bit of a daunting task. There were a couple of takeaways from this week`s reading and podcast that shaped my selections. Dr. Leetaru’s visual map of the reduction of digital works archived over time because of copyright also brought to my attention the vast gap between materials archived between western nations and other countries. And Dr. Smith Rumsey made an important point regarding the challenge of curation being that we do not know in the present the value of artifacts in the future. With these two points in mind, I tried to avoid my personal bias and familiarity with western composer like Bach, Beethoven and Mozart and other familiar pieces and tried to select 10 pieces that would cover as much of the globe and different cultures as possible. These are the 10 pieces I selected. 

1. Zaire, Pygmy girls’ initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56 
2. Australia, Aborigine songs, “Morning Star” and “Devil Bird,” recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes. 1:26 
3. Mexico, “El Cascabel,” performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México. 3:14 
4. Japan, shakuhachi, “Tsuru No Sugomori” (“Crane’s Nest,”) performed by Goro Yamaguchi. 4:51 
5. Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor. 7:20 
6. Navajo Indians, Night Chant, recorded by Willard Rhodes. 0:57 
7. Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38 
8. China, ch’in, “Flowing Streams,” performed by Kuan P’ing-hu. 7:37 
9. India, raga, “Jaat Kahan Ho,” sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30 
10. “Dark Was the Night,” written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson. 3:15 

For this task I changed the mode of the “What’s in your bag” task from week one. The purpose of the previous task was to provide a visual and textual representation of a day in my work life. In the previous task, I used a photograph of my work bag and the items in it and explained in text what I used the items for and what they say about me. This week I focused on audio and created a narrative collage of the sounds that define my typical workday. The audio piece begins will an alarm and follows my journey to work by ferry, the communication technologies I interact with and support at work, and ends the day with my walk and return home.  The piece supplements the image and text from task one and provides an audio representation of a day in my life.

Here is my emoji synopsis of the last film I saw in a movie theatre. It was a screening of an older movie and the first emoji represents the title of the film. See if you can guess what it is 🙂

Here is my Twine game “Coffee Quest”. The goal of the game is to find a strong cup of coffee, so you can give an amazing presentation at an education technology conference and impress your MET colleagues.

I was unable to set it up to automatically open, but if you download the HTML file from this link and open it in a browser it should play.