Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe have sent their latest collaborative album, Liminal, beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The project marks the duo’s third joint release of the year and was transmitted into space using the historic Holmdel Horn Antenna, the same instrument that helped confirm the Big Bang Theory in the 1960s.
Constructed in 1959 by Bell Laboratories, the Holmdel Horn Antenna played a pivotal role in detecting cosmic microwave background radiation, offering physical evidence of the universe’s origins. Now, decades later, it has been repurposed as a transmitter for new creative exploration.
Discussing the album, Eno and Wolfe described Liminal as “set in the borderlands between song and non-song — or ‘nong’, as we call it — where the listener explores an intimate and unfamiliar sonic world, still ambiguous and unclaimed.” They added that the decision to beam the record into deep space felt “fitting, as it imagines future worlds that we want to live in.”
Beatie Wolfe previously made history in 2017 as the first artist to broadcast music into space using the same antenna, in collaboration with Robert Wilson, who adapted the device to ensure the compositions could travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
Liminal follows Eno and Wolfe’s earlier 2025 releases, Lateral and Luminal, and arrives amid a wave of music projects taking on interstellar ambition. Earlier this year, Massive Attack, The Avalanches, and others sent recordings to the moon as part of an art installation, continuing a growing dialogue between music, science, and space exploration.
