Eric Whitacre invites the audience to give shape to the sound of the cosmos. The clouds of orchestral sound flowing into each other are like the strange but beautiful gas clouds many light years away. Activating the special Deep Field app does not only create electronic music, but also the visually stunning imagery of the famous Deep Field photo.
Deep Field was inspired by the world’s most famous space observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and its greatest discovery – the iconic Deep Field image. The piece paints the incredible story of the Hubble Deep Field. Turning its gaze to a tiny and seemingly dark area of space (around one 24-millionth of the sky) and left for a 10-day long exposure, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed over 3,000 galaxies that had never previously been seen, each one composed of hundreds of billions of stars.
