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