When my son was young, we would sing the familiar children’s song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. Meanwhile, the stars and planets above had songs of their own. These "songs" have been recorded by satellites traveling through space and made discoverable through NASA's website. This video is a call and response between the old songs of children and the planets and stars above.
It is magical that millions of years pass before a star's light waves hits earth - the echoes of their light inspire and delight our very temporal existences. The video's audio is meant to echo the verse/chorus structure of a song. The original visuals for the star sequences come from videos of rock slices - a geologist friend allowed me to record video through the lens of her microscope. I love that a humble slice of rock - static, mineral, and hard - can be reinterpreted to invoke the motion and life of a star.
Soundtrack courtesy of NASA, time-lapse of the night skies courtesy of Jeffery Beach and Michael Wilson.