Solar Wind
Event Horizon
Two Black Holes Colliding
Moth wants to kiss the fire,
And I wish I could be that moth.
I wish I could fear of something,
I wish I could have
That source.
When star pulses it sounds like a heart. When baby’s heart start beating, it joins the Universe Rhythm. It says ‘I’m real, I’m in the game.’ Everything has its cycle, its rhythm, its sound. The quieter the sound, the less we think it’s alive.
The Rhythm of the Universe is the series I’ve created after hearing a recently made NASA video demonstrating Solar Wind and its sound, — vibrations of electric and magnetic fields converted into sound waves, — recorded by the Parker Solar Probe. The first time in history something got so close to the Sun and made a record of it. It fascinated me. The Sun has the sound? Understanding of it made me feel very uncomfortable. It is alive.
This tingling fear of Unknown made me think about people and space, known and unkown, inner and outer, about the Rhythm of the Universe.
I
SOLAR WIND
It was the sound that stayed with me. It wasn’t just wind — it was something ancient, hollow, and vast. It reminded me of death. Not in a dramatic sense, but in that deep, instinctive way that makes your body freeze before your mind understands why.
The sound of the solar wind filled me with unease. I listened again and again until I grew used to the fear. I realized that my cultural memory, shaped over generations, was reacting to something familiar — a warning. But what if it wasn’t danger? What if it was something new?
That’s when the fear left me.
I stopped focusing on the wind and the sparkles, and instead, I looked through them. Only then did I notice the planets — the life.
All my life, I had looked at the Sun from the Earth. Now, I was seeing the Earth from the Sun — from the heart of the universe, the source of energy. The father.
II
EVENT HORIZON. BLACK HOLE
Event Horizon is a performance I created to explore my fear of the Unknown — the kind of fear that isn’t loud, but quiet and infinite. I was inspired by the idea of the black hole's event horizon. Scientists say that once you cross it, gravity takes over completely. How would it feel to balance on the verge of that boundary. That idea stayed with me — the inevitability of being pulled into eternity, with no way back.
The performance is built around the actual sonification of a black hole produced by SA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2022, a sound that feels ancient. Using that audio, along with minimal and present movement, I lived through the moment of crossing the point of no return.
What scares me more — the certainty of death, or the possibility that death will lose its end and beginning? That question became the core of this piece. It’s not about escaping fear, but entering it fully, and seeing what remains on the other side.
III
TWO BLACK HOLES COLLIDING
Human nature seeks the familiar in the Unknown. We try to apply our logic to new experiences, to make sense of what we can't fully grasp.
When I saw the title of the sonification The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding, I expected something massive and terrifying. But sound doesn’t travel through a vacuum. So the gravitational waves translated into audio, sounded like… a soft pop. Like a bubble bursting.
Two enormous forces collide… Pop.
As if the universe is whispering: things are only frightening because you expect them to be.
I felt confusion, awe, and a strange peace. What was I really hearing? The birth of something new from two natures merging? Or one force consuming the other, becoming stronger?
I don’t have the answer. But the sound continues to echo inside me.
