Jade's Selections from the Golden Record Curation Track 1 - Introduction Track 2 - Greetings From Earth Track 3 - More Greetings (UN Representatives) and Humpback Whales Track 4 - Sounds of Earth (12 min. sound essay) Track 6 - Kinds of Flowers Track 8 - Melanesian Panpipes Track 9 - Morningstar and Devil Birds, Australia Track 13 - Cranes in their Nest, Japan Track 17 - Panpipes and Drum Song, Peru Track 28 - Flowing Streams, China *Track numbers are associated with the order mentioned in the podcast, Twenty Thousand Hertz, episode "Voyager Golden Record"
If the premise of this curation of sounds is to represent Earth if discovered by extraterrestrial life, then the selection I have chosen from the 27 “tracks” would serve its purpose. I chose pieces that can be categorized as “Life that can be Found on Earth.” I began with the theme of nature and the sounds that were created using natural elements found on Earth. These natural elements include wood instruments, humpback whales, and other organic sounds. I then chose recordings that included human voices, which are the introduction and greetings from Earth. As humans are a vital part of Earth, I felt that it was important to add these recordings to the final curated selection.
I am curious to know that if an updated curation of sound selections from Earth were to be created in this century, what would be added?