Pale Blue Dot (Requiem, 1996), by Hermione Harvestman

Pale Blue Dot (Requiem, 1996)

by Hermione Harvestman

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	1.	Pale Blue Dot - Part Two 17:49		buy track
	2.	Pale Blue Dot - Part Three 18:02		buy track

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In memory of Carl Sagan. Composition / Performance (two Korg MS-20s + delay in real time) in the immediate wake of his death on the Winter Solstice 1996. His was the spiritual vision of the sacred beauty of the material universe that is common to us all who share in the joyful glory simply by being alive.

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'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.'

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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Note : The main thing here is Part Two and Part Three, which I might think of as being Sides 1 and 2 of an album, each being around 18 minutes long. The rest of it features as darkly supplemental - the very long Part One, the eleven minute pastoral Part Four, and Part Five, which ends as the tape ran out, restoring all to the silence of the cosmos. Let us. therefore. make a joyful noise into the nothingness of the Godless void in which all things have their being and into which all things must pass into sacred eternity. Space is, indeed, the place.

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released November 5, 2015

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Hermione Harvestman UK

'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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