These institutions include BAS, the University of Iowa, NASA, the European Space Agency, Jodrell Bank Observatory, and the LIGO consortium.Seven years after her previous album, Apple’s return sidelined her orchestral trademarks for an austere, homespun sound that exposed her insular lyrics even more starkly. This music is freely available to all of us and is done so in the spirit of cooperation that sees scientists from a number of institutions offer the results of their work freely to other thinkers, researchers and artists. In this track we experience the ‘sounds’ of whistlers as recorded in near-Earth space by the EMFISIS instrument on board NASA’s Van Allen Probe A spacecraft on 30th April 2015. Our Celestial Incantations album is a musical cocoon transporting us from Earth into this new wilderness giving listeners time for reflection to ponder on the wonder and mystery of the Universe while considering the questions of our place in the Universe and if we are alone.” ‘Sky Diamonds’ Track artwork, created by Diana Scarborough. Scientists are proposing new theories on space time, dark matter and our expanding Universe based on gravitational wave data and satellite data. “ Explorations in space are current news and the Mars landing has fired the imagination of millions globally. Multimedia artist Diana Scarborough says. Now we can join Pythagoras in a great imagining thanks to the ability of computers to transpose these phenomena into our perceptual ranges.” This is because Pythagoras believed that he could hear the ‘Music of the Spheres’ (Musical Universalis), a series of resonances and possibly even sounds that related to the major celestial bodies. As a composer I can almost hear Pythagoras laughing. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Bell Labs were seminal institutions that explored analogue synthesis so that it could make similar types of sounds, and movie scores such as ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’ (1956) with soundscape that are not so dissimilar to what we hear on this album. The recording took place in the 49 km wide Jezero Crater, located at 18.38 degrees North, 77.58 degrees East on the western edge of a flat plain known as Isidis Planitia, on 20 February, 2021, made by an off the shelf microphone by the Danish company DPA.Īustralian National University Head of Music and composer Dr Kim Cunio says: “ One thing that has struck us right through this project is how similarly humans have imagined these sounds over time. In 2021 NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover made the first acoustic recording of the planet’s atmosphere. ‘Jezero Crater’ Track Artwork, created by Diana Scarborough. Learn more about the science behind the sounds with the Sounds of Space project page. In this album we primarily hear the ‘sounds’ of space through the conversion of electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves to sound waves” In contrast, electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves can travel in the almost perfect vacuum of space, providing us with information on the astronomical objects within and beyond our solar system. The album concludes with a track featuring the ‘sound’ of the merger of two black holes, as evidenced by the first observed gravitational wave, an almost unbelievable ripple in space time that Einstein doubted humans could ever capture!īAS space weather research scientist Dr Nigel Meredith says: “ Space is a vacuum and utterly silent, with no capacity for the transmission of sound waves. Starting off at Earth and moving outwards you will hear compositions inspired by and featuring the ‘sounds’ of our planet, Mars, a comet, Jupiter, Saturn, interstellar space and a galactic pulsar. The album invites you to consider the vastness of space, imagining time and space in the grandest sense, and embark on a spectacular journey of sound. ‘Celestial Incantations’ Album Cover, created by Diana Scarborough. Celestial Incantations builds on previous album Aurora Musicalis by introducing a whole new spectrum of space ‘sounds’ and a huge musical palette – including orchestral instruments, traditional instruments and electronics – taking the listener on a journey from Earth to the largest definitions of cosmic time and space. New album Celestial Incantations is released today by the international Sounds of Space Project, comprising of Dr Nigel Meredith (British Antarctic Survey), Diana Scarborough and Dr Kim Cunio (Australian National University). Celestial Incantations – New album release from Sounds of Space Project
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