New album creates a sonic journey through our cosmos

Image: NASA - A new free online album takes listeners on a cosmic and sonic journey through space, including past the two giant planets of our solar system, a galactic pulsar and colliding black holes. Celestial Incantations combines the mysterious "sounds of space" with a massive musical palette, including orchestral and traditional instruments and electronics. The new album is from the international Sounds of Space group, bringing together Associate Professor Kim Cunio from The Australian National University, UK artist Diana Scarborough and Dr Nigel Meredith from the British Antarctic Survey. It follows their first release, Aurora Musicalis . Associate Professor Cunio said the new album charted a journey through some of the most mysterious and incredible examples of cosmic space and time across our Universe.   - "Space is vast and with this album we have the opportunity to really think about what this vastness means for us as we listen," Associate Professor Cunio said.  "We hope that this album allows people to imagine time and space in the grandest sense." -   - Like the team's first album, tracks on Celestial Incantations use the eerie and normally silent sounds of space to create music depicting interstellar travel, the slow dance of celestial bodies, the orbits of lonely comets and escaping air bubbles from ancient ice cores.