Today seems like a good day to listen to Terry Riley’s One Earth, One People, One Love—one of 10 “spacescapes” commissioned by NASA back in 2001.
Richard Williams was at the world premiere in 2002, and explains how the “whistles, chirrups, howls, static and something that sounds like chattering voices” of space became a piece of extraordinary depth and poignancy—a piece that, for Riley, “took on a different hue after September 11, 2001.”
