Here is a musical taster from our recent album 'Celestial Incantations' by Sounds of Space Project, an art-science collaboration with an artist, a musician-composer and a scientist.

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Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions as can be heard in this eerie recording, which was made by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on board the Cassini spacecraft on 22nd November 2003. The sounds of Saturn are luminescent and very much in the range of our cultural imaginings of the ‘sounds’ of space. Indeed, at one of our first public showings this question was asked, how could people imagine such a similar sound to the actual sound? Saturn has an astrological reputation that is dense and yet also potentially transcendent, hence the musical choice for the work. The strings move from solo instruments to large chordal sweeps that become vast, all played over an Iranian santour (hammer dulcimer), that pulses with composed imaginings of the sounds of the rings.

Composer: Dr Kim Cunio
Scientist: Dr Nigel Meredith
Multimedia Artist: Diana Scarborough
Editor: Max Livesey

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