My starting point for THE OMEGA CENTAURI PROJECT was to ask myself what might happen if
individual human emotions, moving through space and time, were to meet each other by chance.
I wanted to produce a soundtrack incorporating spoken sentences which would reveal this
concept. By relating the soundtrack to a repertoire of stellar imagery, I would also
acknowledge that we are all made of stars. I chose Omega Centauri, an awe-inspiring
cluster of over a million of stars, as a source of inspiration

It was astrophysicist Francesco R. Ferraro’s description of how each star inside Omega
Centauri has its own orbit and how the trajectories of these stars can be unpredictable that
suggested to me the possibility of using this as a model. Professor Ferraro created a computer
simulation of 1000 numbered star orbits based on the structural parameters - dimension,
distance and mass - of Omega Centauri. He produced three sequences of snapshots of random
encounters of stars taken at one million year intervals via three windows within the cluster

Drawing from a wide range of sources, I wrote 1000 sentences (formed from familiar fragments
of speech) and gave each a number from 1-1000. Each sentence was twinned with a star in
Ferraro’s simulation. In this way three scripts emerged, each made from chance encounters of
different emotions. I directed voice-overs to deliver the sentences and recorded the results.
With the scripts as a guide, composer Alejandro Viñao designed and produced three 30 minute
music pieces, integrating the recorded voices

Using the music and voices as a guide, film editor Daniel Goddard transformed pages of
research data on Omega Centauri provided by Professor Ferraro into the abstract “emotional”
landscapes we see in the films