The universe listend.
Two evenings. Three traditions. One stage.
A scientific vision brought to life through music.
From roots to stars, a quiet gesture of peace across cultures.
Canary Islands · Tibet · Hawaiʻi with Juan Mesa, Nawang Khechog, and Jeff Peterson. Breath, rhythm, and starlight meeting in the act of listening.
Live Stream · March 28
On March 28, Song for the Stars brings together a unique constellation of artists and thinkers. Astrophysicist Jeff Kuhn introduces the vision behind the ExoLife Finder (ELF), a next-generation telescope designed to directly detect signs of life on nearby planets, opening the evening with a scientific perspective that frames the experience.
From there, the dialogue moves into music.
Rooted in diverse traditions, from the rhythms of the Canary Islands to Tibetan flute and Hawaiian slack key guitar, the musicians create a shared space where sound becomes a form of exploration.
Initiated in the context of Morph Optics, the project reflects a broader vision: to extend perception through both science and human experience.
Science and Song Salon
On March 22, ahead of the live event in Maui on March 28, scientists and musicians came together for an open conversation about music, melody, rhythm, and how we might communicate across cultures, and even across worlds.
This one hour discussion brought together project leader Jeff Kuhn, alongside astrophysicts, biologists, and renowned Canarian musician Juan Mesa, creating a rare dialogue between science and sound.
Message to the Stars
It can be simple. Personal. A reflection. A signal.
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Song for the Stars
An intercultural concert bridging indigenous sound traditions and frontier astronomy, not as fusion, but as dialogue.
At its core is a shared discipline: listening. In music, listening shapes breath and rhythm. In astronomy, listening means precision, the quiet attention required to read faint signals from distant worlds.
Listening as discovery
Musicians from La Gomera, Tibet and Hawaii meet on one stage to share cultural memory through sound, voice, strings, flute and resonance, held in a contemporary setting.
An intimate Maui matinee: human scale, high meaning, designed to leave a lasting impression.
Music as a message beyond discovery
“Carl Sagan led the charge during the Voyager satellite era to project humanity´s best side into space with music and art.”
“When we find life outside the solar system with dedicated astronomical telescopes we also believe we should project a message of peace and love with music that samples the diversity of human culture.”
Jeff Kuhn · Astrophysicist
Light and sound travelling outward as a human gesture.
A visual metaphor for listening, cultural memory and peaceful intention.
Listening deeper: evidence in starlight
ExoLifeFinder is a next-generation telescope designed to detect atmospheric biosignatures on nearby exoplanets, translating faint starlight into measurable evidence of life.
Explore ExoLifeFinder
Built for precision: extracting the smallest signals with next-generation optics.
A science bridge between deep observation and the concert’s human-scale act of listening.