REDSHIFT — Light in service of sound · Sound in service of light

Ashley Zelinskie × illich Mujica

The evening begins with a listening session from NASA's Golden Record — the sounds of Earth encoded on a disc and launched into deep space in 1977 aboard Voyager. A message from us to whatever might be out there. What follows is the reply.

REDSHIFT is a two-hour live audiovisual performance in which Zelinskie's custom system interprets imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope in real time, driven by Mujica's music. Bass frequencies reshape the Carina Nebula. Beats surge the camera through galaxy clusters. The harmonic content shifts the color temperature of every pixel from cold blue-violet to warm orange-red — tracing the Doppler effect, the same physics that governs both light waves and sound waves, across the visible spectrum.

The Golden Record asked the universe a question. REDSHIFT listens for the answer.

Presented as part of TRANSMISSIONS, a series of live performances at Heft Gallery in the Lower East Side, using a new ultra hi-fi listening system by Joe Doucet and a 32-foot projection wall. Produced by Projekt Blank & Heft Gallery.

Heft Gallery, 300 Broome St, New York, NY 10002