Gabriela Martinez Plays Rachmaninoff

Hello? Is anyone listening out there? Imagine a musical message – a Primal Message - sent 25,000 light-years away. What would our cosmic greeting sound like? Nokuthula Ngwenyama, inspired by the work of Carl Sagan and the interstellar greeting sent by the Arecibo Observatory in 1974, offers her possibility. As we say in Kansas, “Ad Astra per Aspera.”Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter) depicts an artist who retreats, spiritually wounded, from th...