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Dark matter music

4/29/202634 min

Pioneering musicians Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno released their latest album Liminal by broadcasting it from a 50-foot microwave antenna. Noam talks to Beatie about why “dark matter music” was the perfect sound to beam into deep space, and how music can take us places that are even harder to reach.

Guest: ⁠Beatie Wolfe⁠, composer and conceptual artist

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