{"id":203,"date":"2020-06-28T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/?p=203"},"modified":"2020-06-28T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:44:05","slug":"golden-record-curation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/2020\/06\/28\/golden-record-curation\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Record Curation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/files\/2020\/06\/The_Sounds_of_Earth_-_GPN-2000-001976-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had to make some strict decisions in order to curate the Golden Record down to 10 songs. At first, I wanted to show an evolution of music, progressing from the more traditional tones to Rock. However, I quickly realized that doing that made most of my tracks originate in the West. I changed tactics and instead made my criteria <strong>focus on global and temporal diversity, and the human voice<\/strong>. I could not find a playable version of the <em>Pygmy girls&#8217; initiation song<\/em>, but I chose to include it over the percussion music from Senegal as it seemed likely to include vocals (which the latter lacks).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The songs I chose, in the order I imagine them being played, were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38<\/li>\n<li>Zaire, Pygmy girls&#8217; initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56<\/li>\n<li>Australia, Aborigine songs, &#8220;Morning Star&#8221; and &#8220;Devil Bird,&#8221; recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes. 1:26<\/li>\n<li>Navajo Indians, Night Chant, recorded by Willard Rhodes. 0:57<\/li>\n<li>Georgian S.S.R., chorus, &#8220;Tchakrulo,&#8221; collected by Radio Moscow. 2:18<\/li>\n<li>Java, court gamelan, &#8220;Kinds of Flowers,&#8221; recorded by Robert Brown. 4:43<\/li>\n<li>Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dark Was the Night,&#8221; written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson. 3:15<\/li>\n<li>Mexico, &#8220;El Cascabel,&#8221; performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi M\u00e9xico. 3:14<\/li>\n<li>India, raga, &#8220;Jaat Kahan Ho,&#8221; sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/xznyPebL28X5u\" width=\"480\" height=\"264\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nThe one thing I regret about this criteria is that I could not include Azerbaijan&#8217;s bagpipes along with <em>Jaat Kahan Ho<\/em>. This pairing is <strong>pure geekery<\/strong>, stemming from my love of <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> (2004-2009), a TV series about <strong>humanity wandering the cosmos in search of a new home<\/strong>. The composer, Bear McCreary (whom you may also have heard on <em>Outlander<\/em> and<em> The Walking Dead<\/em>), made the iconic soundtrack by merging bagpipes with ethic vocals. My geekery did have some satisfaction, though, from including &#8220;Dark Was the Night&#8221;. Its lonesome warbling is reminiscent of the music used in videogames like the <em>Fallout<\/em> series and <em>Cargo Commander.<\/em> These games star humans wandering&#8230; to what end, that&#8217;s up to the player to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to make some strict decisions in order to curate the Golden Record down to 10 songs. At first, I wanted to show an evolution of music, progressing from the more traditional tones to Rock. However, I quickly realized that doing that made most of my tracks originate in the West. I changed tactics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-weekly-task","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lauraulrich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}