'Sounds of Space' as Dance  at the Festival of Ideas, Cambridge, Oct 2019
Channel: Sounds of Space Project
Date: 20/05/2021

In October 2019 our art-science, ‘sounds of space’ performance was created for the Cambridge Festival of Ideas together with a Science Talk and Q&A in Eddington. Dancers Becky Byers and Felix Denton created a scratch performance in a space designed as a figure of eight with a video projection and stereo sound to embed the audience within the work. 

The soundtrack and visuals are a montage of short films inspired by a journey in space and time, using using a selection of space ‘sounds’ curated by Dr Nigel Meredith. Music is by composer Dr Kim Cunio and film/animations are by  multimedia artist Diana Scarborough.

This is one of the latest developments of 'Sounds of Space'  Project, an ongoing collaboration between multimedia artist Diana Scarborough, space weather scientist Dr Nigel Meredith of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Dr Kim Cunio, Head of Music at Australian National University (ANU). 

Sounds of the ice courtesy of BAS, space ‘sounds’ courtesy of BAS, Steven McGreevy, University of Iowa, the European Space Agency, Jodrell Bank Observatory, the Parkes Radio Telescope and the LIGO consortium

For more see https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/sounds-of-space/ and  http://dianascarborough.co.uk