As with many of my collaborations, literature provides inspiration or a starting point for projects. This particular idea originates from Sir Francis Bacon’s political/theological novel from 1627, Bacon describes utopian culture and society in incredible detail in which science and art are of equal importance. He also refers to the production of music/sound, light, energy and the measurement of time in the future.

“We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all
sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of
quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. “

“We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and
letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain
helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. We have also
divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times,
and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice louder
than it came, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the
voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they
receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in
strange lines and distances. “