The Space Project

The Space Project is a compilation album released on April 19th, 2014 by Lefse Records, the audio tracks that form the raw material for Space Project were recorded by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes that NASA launched in 1977 and still uses to study the outer solar system. The satellites carry numerous instruments fine-tuned to record in different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The “sounds” recorded by the Voyager probes aren’t sounds in the conventional sense; rather, they are electromagnetic radiation fluctuations in the magnetosphere of the planets, moons and large asteroids the Voyager probes traveled near. Each celestial body is composed of different elements, has its own size and mass, and therefore sounds unique.

The Space Project is available for streaming on Spotify and YouTube

The album is divided in:

Jupiter
Porcelain Raft: “Giove”
The Antlers: “Jupiter”

Miranda
Mutual Benefit: “Terraform”
Anna Meredith: “Miranda”

Neptune
Spiritualized: “Always Together With You (The Bridge Song)”
The Holydrug Couple: “Amphitrites Lost”

Uranus
Youth Lagoon: “Worms”
Blues Control: “Blues Danube”

Saturn
Beach House: “Saturn Song”
Zomes: “Moonlet”

Earth
Absolutely Free: “Earth I”
Jesu: “Song of Earth”

Io
Benoit & Sergio: “Long Neglected Words”
Larry Gus: “Sphere of Io (For Georg Cantor)”