After reading Joseph’s blog post on the Golden Record Curation, I found some commonalities in the criteria that we set in the selection of our Top 10 tracks. We both have never heard of this curation before and are both fascinated by it. We also wonder what the curation would be like if it was created year to year and how different the choices in music and sounds would be.
Joseph “chose not to select music that sounded frightening as the goal of the Voyager Golden Record was to send a peaceful message in the hopes of either sharing what we accomplished on Earth or extended an olive branch to whoever may find it if we still exist.” I also based my criteria on this very point, although I did not express this thought in my blog. There were specific tracks that sounded very intense and suspenseful to the ears, such as Mozart’s Queen of the night by Eda Moser. The counter argument would be to try and justify that other intelligent beings would think the same thoughts. There’s no way in knowing, which makes this whole project even more interesting.
I appreciated Joseph’s personal notes on each track that he selected. He provided a thoughtful and analytical response to how the sounds in each piece of music spoke to him. I wonder what pieces of music he would’ve put together if given an opportunity to curate a record of Earth’s sounds?