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astronauts

from LAEE by Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble

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This piece was inspired by and utilizes astronaut.io, a website created by Andrew Wong and James Thompson in 2011, which cycles through random YouTube videos that were uploaded within the last week, have titles like “DSC_1234”, and have almost zero previous views. The first version of this piece was a solo that ramped from intelligible video and audio to a chaotic, noisy mess. There is so much media being created all of the time, it is terribly overwhelming to think of concretely (500 hours of new YouTube content every minute in May 2019). But that first version left me feeling hollow and I very quickly reversed the order of events, a chaotic mess that would string itself out into beautifully fleeting moments. My heart wells up thinking about all of these videos that someone in the world thought “this is so important, so valuable, that I should record it and upload it to the internet.” Is a high school basketball game important on a global scale? Probably not. Was that high school basketball game really important to a handful of people? I like to think so. Life is complicated and a baby doing normal baby things that just about every baby does won’t solve world hunger, but it being the most important thing to someone means a lot to me. We think of the current quartet iteration of this piece as a concerto-style feature for the audio obfuscation, backed by a trio of sequencers.
-MC

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from LAEE, released January 31, 2021
Written by Marcus Carline

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