Coincidentally, I’m also starting a new project at work, which is about how we are searching for extra-terrestrial life. I had my first ideas session with Max today and we got talking about our personal connections with some of the ideas that are in the current outline. I’ve been looking forward to working on this project for several months now as me and Max have been working independently of each other for ages and his soul is a pleasant one, one I enjoy working with.

I had some ideas regarding “Mankind’s enduring fear of being alone” and I had a really lovely moment of reflection from a time just before I started working at the space centre, when I was pitching for some funding to make a short film called ‘Resonance’. It reminded me of the moment I knew working at the space centre was a my fate. At the time I had numerous things happening that all seemed to lead me towards the people and place that are now my family and home. So many things, it seems it was unavoidable. I have been thinking about space a lot in my personal work recently and I really love the ideas behind Resonance. They still resonate within me. I’d love to revisit the project one day, and although I could now make the film in half the time it would have taken me back then, I think it needs too much involvement from other highly skilled people, which would cost too much. Nevertheless, I’ve just been looking through the project website I created 6 years ago for it and I’m really excited by it. The treatment is cringe worthy film council tick-box stuff but the imagery is nice to look through. I think Jon Hopkins would work incredibly well for the soundtrack. Or Ben Frost. With Richard’s ‘wine glass orchestra’.

Actually, it really isn’t obvious from the script, but the idea is inspired by the Voyager 1 space craft. I wanted to use a hugely distorted ‘Johnny B. Goode’ sample within the ‘message’ as this appears on the the gold disc, among other eclectic sounds from ‘Murmurs of Earth’.

The website is still online at borgasm. Some things seemed to have got lost, but some things are still there: