["Aerial" by Ben Cosgrove] ﻿ My name is Ben Cosgrove
I am a musician and a composer.
And I write music about landscape.
Last summer I had the opportunity to go the Lava Beds National Monument with NASA’s GEODES team.
The team was looking at...
The Volcanic landscapes at Lava Beds, with an eye towards
Applying the knowledge they could glean there
To future projects in the geologically similar environments on the
Surface of the Moon or Mars
I got to shadow, observe and assist
Various teams as they study different aspects
Of this strange beautiful and dynamic landscape
I’m used to subjectively interpreting landscape
So, it was both unusual and incredibly gratifying
For me to be at Lava Beds, with a group of people
Who are all highly trained in these different ways
Uh, to be able to study and understand landscape as a document
Of time and events.
People who could look at a rock
Or the sweep of a landscape and
See motion and time and present tense change
Written in it
My time on this expedition
Was artistically and personally
Not only edifying but transformative
Thank you very much and I hope you like the song.
["Volcano" by Ben Cosgrove]