cosmic communicator (installation 1), 2011, alabaster, records, copper, conduit, electrical wire, 11 x 2 x 3 feet
The record albums on cosmic communicator contain songs that were included on the Golden Record placed aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977:
1. Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode (US)
2. Beethoven, 5th Symphony, 1st Movement, Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor (Ger/UK)
3. Blind Willie Johnson, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (US)
4. Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (Sacrificial Dance) Le Sacred u Princetemps, Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Russ/FR/US)
5. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No. 1, Glenn Gould (Ger/Can)
6. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Melancholy Blues (US)
7. Goro Yamaguchi, Crane's Nest/Tsuru No Sugomori (Jap)