Celestial Incantations’ - from Celestial Incantations Album by the Sounds of Space Project

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. For the full music experience visit Bandcamp. It is free to listen and download here:- We now leave our solar system behind and travel out to the brightest pulsar in the northern sky, PSR B0329 54, at a distance of 3460 light years from our Sun. Radiation is beamed out along the magnetic poles and pulses of radiation are received as the beam crosses the Earth. In this piece we hear the “sound” of the pulsar as recorded by the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. I have been realising and interpreting the music of the 12th Century mystic and abbess Hildegard of Bingen for over 20 years with soprano Heather Lee and she sings one of these works, one of our oldest scored pieces of music, and certainly one of the oldest pieces of music to survive that has been comp