Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe send their new album into space tonight

Brian Eno’s latest collaboration with conceptual artist and composer Beatie Wolfe, titled ‘Liminal’, will be broadcast into space tonight (October 15) via the historic Holmdel Horn Antenna.

Originally constructed by Bell Laboratories in 1959, the Holmdel Horn Antenna was instrumental in the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the faint remnant of energy that provided evidence for the Big Bang.

Working alongside Nobel Prize–winning physicist Dr. Robert Wilson, Eno and Wolfe will transmit their new record into the cosmos, forming part of the broader conceptual vision behind their project.

“‘Liminal’ is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’, as we call it), where the listener is exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world, as yet unclaimed, and still ambiguous. This music, to us, feels like an exploration of new territories, imagining future worlds that we want to live in. And so it felt fitting to broadcast it into the unknown, into dark matter,” Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe said.

The project reflects both artists’ ongoing interest in the convergence of art and science, using sound as a medium to explore questions around humanity, technology and the natural world.

For Eno, this marks a continuation of his long-standing inquiry into sound and innovation. As one of the key figures behind ambient music, he has consistently challenged artistic boundaries through generative sound environments and large-scale audiovisual works, including light and video installations at venues such as the Sydney Opera House.

Wolfe, meanwhile, made history in 2017 as the first artist to transmit music into space using the same Holmdel Horn Antenna, collaborating with Robert Wilson, who adapted the instrument to carry her compositions beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

She later presented a data visualisation piece based on 800,000 years of NASA’s CO₂ readings at the 2021 Nobel Peace Summit and has since showcased her projects worldwide. Wolfe was recently appointed as a UN role model for innovation.

You can listen to the latest single, ‘Procession’, from ‘Liminal’ and pre-order the full album here.