Name: Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 102: Legacy of Connection by NASA
Duration: 18 min 5 s
Description: NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Rob Grant discusses the agency’s Black History Month theme: Building a Legacy of Achievement, Connection, and Knowledge.

Vanessa Wagner first grabbed my attention when she collaborated with Murcof on Statea (InFiné, 2016). How can you not get mesmerized by her beautiful piano rendition of Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th" with Fernando Corona's electronic soundscape treatments? By the time this French pianist released her explorations of the minimalist repertoire with Study Of the Invisible (InFiné, 2022), I have already proclaimed her to be the Martha Argerich of the contemporary classical crossover genre. On the former, she performed music by Philip Glass, Suzanne Ciani, Harold Budd, and even Brian Eno & Roger Eno. Her new album, titled Mirrored and scheduled for release on November 25th, via InFiné once again, continues the solo piano studies of "graceful minimalism and rare finesse" with re-interpretations of works by Sylvain Chauveau, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Moondog, Philip Glass, and Nico Muhly - the latter of which I am premiering for you today. Low beautiful chords land on the keyboard of the piano with measured dynamics and balanced intent. Individual notes are given space to resonate and fade away. My favourite instrument is lovingly caressed, expressed, and captured, to truly become an extension of feelings within. Here, I must also give credit to the composition itself, which first appeared in Nico Muhly's Speaks Volumes (Bedroom Community, 2006). "The melody moves slowly, but when it moves, it spans octaves, rising like a giant architecture above the low, cycling chords in the background. Over the low, austere chorale, that melody has the heft of iron bells, tintinnabulant in a style that nods to Arvo Pärt." Wagner's rendition is closer, deeper, more intimate, and well-performed - something that lifts up this piece and makes it just a little bit better.

Mirrored

Quiet Music

TRACK PREMIERE : Vanessa Wagner - Quiet Music (Nico Muhly)

NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Rob Grant discusses the agency’s Black History Month theme: Building a Legacy of Achievement, Connection, and Knowledge.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps Podcast

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 102: Legacy of Connection

demo versions of the songs I wrote that brought me home.

I am worthy [demo version] by Claire T. 
Lyrics

I am worthy
of what ever’s coming to me
however that looks
I’m just tryna let it be
and if I don’t like it
maybe I’m just not aligned yet
with the energy I want to come to me 
I am worthy 

I’ve been too tryna hard not to impress
didn’t realize it ‘til I got dressed 
before we hung out and I really started to trip out
never wanna look like I don’t care
but I don’t wanna care too much 
I know it’s not right to compare
feels like I’m falling outta touch 
caught up in my thoughts & such 
need something to ground me now 
‘cause I know 

I am worthy
of what ever’s coming to me
however that looks
I’m just tryna let it be
and if I don’t like it
maybe I’m just not aligned yet
with the energy I most want to come to me 
I am worthy 

I see now that life gets in the way
of all the things we truly wanna say 
like how we’re all just secretly stressed out
by mundane things we’re expected to handle 
all just trapped in our minds
calling it a rollercoaster ride 
but what if things could be more stable, 
 by letting go of our fight to stay afloat? 
(What if?) 
I am worthy
of what ever’s coming to me
however that looks
I’m just tryna let it be
and if I don’t like it
maybe I’m just not aligned yet
with the energy I want to come to me 
‘cause I am worthy
[some cheesiness] “….. I’m just gon cut that part out” *doesn’t cut it out* (demo version tings)

I am worthy. [demo version]

DGX-630 Solo Piano

2023 Piano - Intervals - Hard Echo - Mr. Numi Who~

lost my mind (slowed)

This melody/theme is a work in progress for my solo project Spiral Seas, I've been sitting on the idea for a while so I felt like sharing this raw, semi-improvisational take. It was recorded as a test during a grand piano session for upcoming CWC music.

You can hear my debut original "Lullaby" on our page here or on other streaming platforms under Spiral Seas. - Steve

Artwork by our talented friend Neesh - https://instagram.com/t.j.wo

Catharsis (Spiral Seas - Piano Instrumental Demo)

DR-87 ; Andrew Heath - Fold (CS / DL)

out on June 16th, 2023‘Fold represents the continuing shift in my work towards a more open and tonal sound - warmer and more dreamlike, I seek to explore more minimal arrangements using sparse piano and guitar balanced with soft electronics and field recordings. Fold is a slow moving tone poem with delicate piano motifs and evolving e-bowed guitar notes that seem to form from nowhere and then disappear into the ether, always searching for that elusive and constantly shifting space between sleeping and waking.’

- Andrew Heath

Written and Produced - Andrew Heath
Mastered - Andrew Heath

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03 - Shelter

A calming version of the tracks Arctic Winds and Memories of Tundra originally released on 2017's Alaska: Beyond Your Dreams album.

Free download: https://hypeddit.com/richardanthonybean/orientalhaze

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Coventry Carol

Arranged & Produced by Brock Hewitt

Copyright 2023 Stories in Sound

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Sonatas Op.2 No.29 - 1st movement

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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 102: Legacy of Connection

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