Linda O Keeffe

Tuning In

Quantum mechanics predicts a vast number of parallel universes by broadening the concept of "elsewhere". These universes are located elsewhere, not in ordinary space but in an abstract realm of all possible states. Every conceivable way that the world could be (within the scope of quantum mechanics) corresponds to a different universe.

New Science.

This statement has evoked many questions for me since I started working with this sound two years ago. The idea that an object, a moment or an individual exists in thousands of other possibilities pushed me in the direction of recording the sound of radio waves from space, I was looking for sounds that could not be heard directly with the human ear. Sounds that surround us as a link to other times and experiences that would need to be tuned into physically in order to pick up via a satellite. Under the noise of spatial particles and quasars I tuned into sounds that were eerily like voices out of sync, when I focused in on these sounds it seemed like I was hearing multiple voices layered over each other. I pursued this theme by recreating a live recording in a large space, multiple voices sang or voiced multiple versions of the same theme, this recording happened in the digital hub and remnants of the sound will still be floating around space as particles and waves for thousands of years. In this work I have investigated the idea of the human receiver an individual receiving the voices and sounds of many worlds.

At the time of the big bang a sound was emitted into space, a recording if you will of this event, to this day that sound can still be heard below a certain frequency, it is in d flat.

Cosmos / The Planets / BBC Documentary