Fertile Void | Plasmática Fantástica <3

The text ‘The Plasmatic Ensemble’ was written by the artist in 2022 and published as part of In the Spaces Between (dpr-barcelona, 2025), a publication edited by Mónica Bello and dedicated to the Arts at CERN programme. Nicole L'Huillier’s contribution weaves together reflections, research, and conversations with cosmologists and theoretical physicists that took place at CERN in Switzerland and the ALMA and Paranal astronomical observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Beginning from the quantum fluctuations that rippled through the early universe, the text turns to primordial sound waves and the vibrational ways of being and thinking they suggest. 

The reading is accompanied by ‘Plasmática Fantástica’, a sonic essay that encompasses sounds taken from a variety of contexts: cosmic events and electromagnetic activity within the Earth; a collective flute procession with the band La Chimuchina and friends; a silent conversation about dark constellations, Andean cosmologies and rituals, and other secrets of the desert concealed by the filter of the Vilama River; as well as textures and pulsations that tune bodies and minds towards a timeless state of fluid intuition.

Part of Fertile Void: Quantum Listening from Ancient Earth to Spectral Densities

Made possible by Schering Stiftung