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Enter the Cosmos
On this podcast and subsequent episodes, Every two weeks or so, I will share the most recent PSO piece and follow that with about 20 minutes of pieces randomly selected from the archives.
This week begins with a cassette from the soundtrack of Carl Sagan’s PBS series, The Cosmos.
The synths from The Cosmos are broken up and rearranged and combined with an improvised acoustic guitar captured on the porch. It's the cosmic and the particular or the Infinite and the finite. I loved that series, Sagan’s shaggy do and comfy corduroy, the mock turtle necks- everything in a kind of space-age beige all in the service of evoking the possibility of meeting alien life.
And he made the Golden Record! which was attached to the Voyager spacecraft and spun out to leave our solar system in search of being found by an extraterrestrial with a turntable. "Only Connect" is the mantra for art-making coined by EM Forrester, and I love the impossibility and the hope embodied in the golden record gesture. The formation of PSO owes much to Sagan’s endeavors.
Following no. 210, This installment spans a range of tunes and feels. Tense days before the November 2020 election and the sounds of a neighborhood celebrating the election decision with fireworks in a debut with my youngest daughter who was just learning how to play the guitar.
There are hums from Friday Harbor marine research boats, light saber sounds gleaned from my bedside clock with an electromagnetic mic and the twang of my dad’s nearly unplayable old Gibson guitar plucked on the shore of Birch Bay in the Pacific North West in 2019.
A YouTube stream of these pieces where you can see the images with titles and dates.
https://www.youtube.com/@PorchSwingOrchestra
Visit the PSO project site: PorchSwingOrchestra.org
To join the Newsletter and/or support the project you can find PSO on substack at porchswingorchestra.substack.com.
There is no paywall but Substack allows the option to contribute which will help PSO do more
Get full access to Porch Swing Orchestra at porchswingorchestra.substack.com/subscribe
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By Barry StoneOn this podcast and subsequent episodes, Every two weeks or so, I will share the most recent PSO piece and follow that with about 20 minutes of pieces randomly selected from the archives.
This week begins with a cassette from the soundtrack of Carl Sagan’s PBS series, The Cosmos.
The synths from The Cosmos are broken up and rearranged and combined with an improvised acoustic guitar captured on the porch. It's the cosmic and the particular or the Infinite and the finite. I loved that series, Sagan’s shaggy do and comfy corduroy, the mock turtle necks- everything in a kind of space-age beige all in the service of evoking the possibility of meeting alien life.
And he made the Golden Record! which was attached to the Voyager spacecraft and spun out to leave our solar system in search of being found by an extraterrestrial with a turntable. "Only Connect" is the mantra for art-making coined by EM Forrester, and I love the impossibility and the hope embodied in the golden record gesture. The formation of PSO owes much to Sagan’s endeavors.
Following no. 210, This installment spans a range of tunes and feels. Tense days before the November 2020 election and the sounds of a neighborhood celebrating the election decision with fireworks in a debut with my youngest daughter who was just learning how to play the guitar.
There are hums from Friday Harbor marine research boats, light saber sounds gleaned from my bedside clock with an electromagnetic mic and the twang of my dad’s nearly unplayable old Gibson guitar plucked on the shore of Birch Bay in the Pacific North West in 2019.
A YouTube stream of these pieces where you can see the images with titles and dates.
https://www.youtube.com/@PorchSwingOrchestra
Visit the PSO project site: PorchSwingOrchestra.org
To join the Newsletter and/or support the project you can find PSO on substack at porchswingorchestra.substack.com.
There is no paywall but Substack allows the option to contribute which will help PSO do more
Get full access to Porch Swing Orchestra at porchswingorchestra.substack.com/subscribe