Composition

Notes

Titanic Descent refers not to the ship, but to the moon of Saturn. In 2005, after eight years of traveling across the Solar System, the Huygens space probe separated from its host spacecraft, Cassini, and nose-dived into the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Onboard Huygens was a microphone, which recorded the sound of the wind as it descended. That recording is the only such acoustic recording of sound from an extraterrestrial location.
In the first minute of Titanic Descent you will hear just the sound of the wind on Titan. From then on the electronic sound takes a flight of fancy, building to a frenzied dance, while we earthlings perform a guided group improvisation using non-pitched sounds of our own making.