The Museum at Tomorrow

Commissioned by Elin Schran

Synthesized music, field recordings.

Track eleven of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Elin's words were "Light, box, jungle."

Climate Change protest recordings by Kathinka Engels and Fredrik Johansson, sourced from Sounds of Change: www.soundsofchanges.eu/.

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Commissioned by Duo Yang

Banjo, field recordings, interviews

Track ten of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Duo's words were "Coffee, Calendar, Compersion"

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Commissioned by Ryan Schile

Archival recordings from Mercury 3, Gemini 3, and Apollo 9. Audio translations of Cassini's recordings of lightning on Saturn, Voyager recording plasma waves hitting solar winds, Cassini recording solar winds hitting Saturn's magnetosphere, and Voyager-2 recording solar winds hitting Jupiter's Magnetosphere.

Track nine of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Ryan's words were "Interstellar, Time, Reality"

All unaltered recordings can be found here:

archive.org/details/nasaaudiocollection

space-audio.org/

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Commissioned by Clayton Faits

Field recordings, seismic recordings, granular synthesis

Track eight of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Clayton's words were "Balance, Earth, Movement"

Seismic recordings by Zhigang Peng can be found here: geophysics.eas.gatech.edu/people/zpeng…1/index.html

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Commissioned by Senja Alden Beaman

Synthesized music, field recordings, text from "Myths of the Norsemen" by Roger Lancelyn Green.

Track seven of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Senja's words were "Lavender, Birch, and Dandelion"

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Commissioned by Michael Anderson

Field recordings, Music by Daniel Rosenfeld.

Track six of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Michael's words were "Minecraft, Beer, and Dogs."

Music sampled from Daniel Rosenfeld- go check out his work at c418.org/

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Commissioned by Sydney Penny

Content warning for direct Corona content.

Field recordings, readings by Betsey Palmer, family voicemails, Amazon Polly voice generation, the CDC Coronavirus Website.

Track five of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Sydney's words were "Kindness, Accountability, Distance."

Special thanks to Alexander Danner for field recordings of Arctic whale-tour boats.

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Commissioned by Rachel

Field recordings, synthesized music, interviews, Kitten.

Track four of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. Rachel's words were "Cats, Love, Sunlight."

Best listened with easy access to someone you love, whether they are a partner, a friend, or a family member.

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Commissioned by Cait Weiss Orcutt

Stereo field recordings, ambisonic field recordings, violin, sampled cellos, text

Cait's words were: Ohio, Husband, Veganaise.

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Words to accompany the piece, to be read before, after, or while listening:

Follow your heart.

My wife cannot say Husband with a straight face

She drawls: Huuuuusband.

We’re not sure if it is too much Texas, or too much Dan Savage

Even if it doesn’t fit me

Her saying it lights up my heart.

"We use vegetable proteins in place of eggs," explains Bob Goldberg

What rolls off the tongue like a cheap substitute

Is in fact more delicious.

Forget healthier. It tastes Better.

Follow your heart.

There’s nothing I love more than the long drive from Chicago to the Farm

Seated just to her right. Peach rings and sour gummy worms in the cup holder

Harmonizing to Dave Carter and Tracey Grammer

Eight hours and we’ll see them

Follow your heart.

Driving up the hill

I always crank down the window

Have every single time

Leaning out for that big breath of fresh air

Follow your heart.

Find this near you: the experience that always refills your heart

For me, a long weekend in Ohio

Where I am held close

The place I can leave and say

No matter what happens this year

I was here

And my heart is full.

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Commissioned by El Jay Rich

Field recordings, synthesized music, sequenced music, Amazon Poly Voice, Changeling: the Dreaming character creation rules, Chance Operations.

Track two of the Quarantine Commissions, where folks provide me three words to inspire a piece. El Jay's words were "Home, Creation, and Night."

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Welcome to the second "season" of the Museum at Tomorrow and other stories!

This season will be my "Quarantine Commissions" - roughly 5 minute audio essays that people commissioned in the early days of the COVID19 outbreak. Each person gave me three words to base a piece on- the following pieces are the result.

I remain ecstatically grateful to everyone who commissioned a piece during that very difficult time. As an independent artist, these pieces allowed me to put food on the table and pay my bills at a time when other work suddenly disappeared.

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Commissioned by Makena Levine

Field recordings, archival show audio, voicemail recordings, and vocals by Betsey Palmer and Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Makena's words were: Quarantine, Nostalgia, and Family.

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We come to the end.

This is not for you.

And Moses said, “Here I am.”

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Transcript coming soon.

Created and produced by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Interviews with Eleanor Hyde, Makena Levine, J Tremaine, Topher Elderkin, Karen Gardner, and others. Extended credits for "This is not for you" recordings can be found here.

Music by Jeffrey Nils Gardner.

Special thanks to Neil Verma and Sarah Geis.

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Circling.

Things change.

"In the middle part of my life, I found myself in a dark wood..."

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Created and produced by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Interviews with Marcus Warren, Eljay Rich, Ryan Bond, and others.

Music by Jeffrey Nils Gardner.

Special thanks to Neil Verma and Sarah Geis.

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Deeper into the maze.

What Names could we give this?

“Wanted, desired, wished / Missed, lacked, needed / Lost” 

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Created and produced by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Interviews with Clayton Faits, Rachel Megibow, Rev. Topher Elderkin, and Jeffrey Nils Gardner.

Thanks to Megan Lubin for their interview with the artist. 

Additional audio archives include childhood photo albums, facebook pictures, and the funeral of George Bishop, recorded by Pauline Preator.

Music by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, with additional tracks from the Blue Dot Sessions. 

Special thanks to Neil Verma and Sarah Geis.

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We explore. Complications and isolation. “Drink and swallow”

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Created and produced by Jeffrey Nils Gardner Interviews with J.R. Cillian Green, Sam Kohlhass, Mel Ruder, and Lissette Alvarez.

Museums toured include the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, and the Northwestern Block Museum of Art.

Music by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, with additional tracks from the Blue Dot Sessions.

Special thanks to Neil Verma and Sarah Geis.

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A beginning. A new way of listening. “Through me the way into”

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Created and produced by Jeffrey Nils Gardner Interviews with Bates Slayer, Makena Levine, and Eleanor Hyde.

Museums toured include the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, and the Northwestern Block Museum of Art.

Music by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, with additional tracks from the Blue Dot Sessions.

Special thanks to Neil Verma and Sarah Geis.

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