Polly says, “The song had already started life as part of the ongoing work towards my new album, so when Professor Brian Cox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated. It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth.
I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.
About an hour and a half's worth of music that was broadcast on the Australian ABC Network's (Australia's equivalent to the BBC) 'Rage' programme in around 1995/1996....
That caused a bit of a flap (As in moral panic) in the USA when it first aired as conservatives (Re: Republicans) hysterically thought that it would incite teenagers to commit arson en-masse.
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