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2025
Robin Meier Wiratunga is an artist and composer. Working closely with scientific researchers, Meier's work blends machine learning with insights from animal intelligence, creating constellation scores where musical patterns emerge as 'thinking tools'.
In 2024, he was selected as the recipient of Connect, Arts at CERN's international residency programme in partnership with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. During his time at CERN, Meier conducted artistic research in dialogue with scientists, engineers, and staff to develop a project titled Guided Meditations for the End of the Universe.
Using an anthropological approach to engage with science, the project delves into cosmological theories about the end of the universe and seeks to transform them into embodied experiences, using spoken voice recordings, electronic music, light environments, and sonified data from particle events.
In this interview, Meier reflects on his research into cosmological theories of the universe's fate, his recordings of the Laboratory's sonic realities, and nd how we might attune to our cosmic endings through embodied meditation.
Connect is the collaboration framework between Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia that promotes dialogue between artists and scientists within the Laboratory's context.