The Golden Record has 27 pieces of music and other sound bits to represent the Earth as a whole through time up to 1977. The week for the task I have to distill the list down to 10 and say why. I wanted to still try and capture different cultures from around the world. I wanted to capture the voices of the world through an anthropocentric viewpoint. All are expressions of humanity and allow for certain connection, however speech allows us to express more advanced concepts. I did, however, swap out the Mozart for Bach as the record had 3 Bach songs and I thought I should include at least one. I also took out Blind Willie Johnson for David Munroe as I thought the style was really unique and that time period wasn’t represented at all even though it is rich in our literature.
Wedding song – Peru
Bach – WTK 2, no 1, Glenn Gould
Tchakrulo – Choir – Georgia
Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry
Jaat Kahan Ho – India – Surshri
Iziel je Delyo Hagdutin – Bulgaria
Fairie Round – cond David Munroe
El Cascabel – Lorenzo Barcelata & The Mari
Kinds of Flowers
Greetings from Earth