1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,933 ["Aerial" by Ben Cosgrove]  My name is Ben Cosgrove 2 00:00:02,933 --> 00:00:04,700 I am a musician and a composer. 3 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:06,534 And I write music about landscape. 4 00:00:06,534 --> 00:00:11,201 Last summer I had the opportunity to go the Lava Beds National Monument with NASA’s GEODES team. 5 00:00:12,068 --> 00:00:13,935 The team was looking at... 6 00:00:13,935 --> 00:00:16,702 The Volcanic landscapes at Lava Beds, with an eye towards 7 00:00:16,702 --> 00:00:18,302 Applying the knowledge they could glean there 8 00:00:18,302 --> 00:00:21,269 To future projects in the geologically similar environments on the 9 00:00:21,269 --> 00:00:24,236 Surface of the Moon or Mars 10 00:00:25,303 --> 00:00:28,203 I got to shadow, observe and assist 11 00:00:28,203 --> 00:00:29,937 Various teams as they study different aspects 12 00:00:29,937 --> 00:00:32,604 Of this strange beautiful and dynamic landscape 13 00:00:33,804 --> 00:00:36,504 I’m used to subjectively interpreting landscape 14 00:00:36,804 --> 00:00:40,005 So, it was both unusual and incredibly gratifying 15 00:00:40,005 --> 00:00:42,138 For me to be at Lava Beds, with a group of people 16 00:00:42,138 --> 00:00:45,105 Who are all highly trained in these different ways 17 00:00:45,105 --> 00:00:48,339 Uh, to be able to study and understand landscape as a document 18 00:00:48,339 --> 00:00:50,439 Of time and events. 19 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:52,540 People who could look at a rock 20 00:00:52,540 --> 00:00:54,907 Or the sweep of a landscape and 21 00:00:54,907 --> 00:00:58,307 See motion and time and present tense change 22 00:00:58,307 --> 00:01:00,641 Written in it 23 00:01:00,641 --> 00:01:03,608 My time on this expedition 24 00:01:03,641 --> 00:01:06,175 Was artistically and personally 25 00:01:06,175 --> 00:01:09,142 Not only edifying but transformative 26 00:01:09,309 --> 00:01:12,276 Thank you very much and I hope you like the song. 27 00:01:13,509 --> 00:01:16,476 ["Volcano" by Ben Cosgrove]