From making their own instruments to beaming their latest album into outer space, the creative duo continues to explore new territories in their own unique way
Sometimes, it’s almost as if an invisible force decides who needs to meet each other. After crossing paths at SXSW 2022, then again in London the next year, Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno found themselves in the studio, immersed in a creative, spontaneous session that was simply meant to be. “The feeling that we both experienced—working in a way that was open, free play and not tied to any outcome—made us want to keep making things together,” Wolfe says. “And it seems like there’s a lot of water in this well.”
Wolfe and Eno released Liminal, their third studio album on Verve Records, in Fall 2025, following Luminal and Lateral that came out earlier in the year. They didn’t plan on releasing a trilogy, let alone an album at all, but after creating so much original work, “there came a natural point when we thought, ‘Hey, maybe we should release some of this,’” Wolfe says. Pulling from their growing collection of songs, “nongs” (their fun word for non-songs) and “long nongs,” the pair “decid[ed] which pieces felt like they most belonged together in a particular world.”
Their music, ranging from ethereal, abstract compositions to soft vocals and foot-tapping melodies, definitely doesn’t fit in one category. Some songs were made with just one guitar, while some feature handmade instruments (think found objects like cake tins and boxes) and for some pieces, they even played the same instrument simultaneously. They describe Luminal as “Dream music,” Lateral as “Space music” and Liminal as “Dark Matter music.” For Eno, the concept of “dark matter” feels deeply mysterious, “like an exploration of strange, new unfamiliar places, that dimension which is as yet beyond human perception.”
Whether one consumes these works as a trilogy or as individual albums, unexpected emotions might pop up during a reflective listen. Even the artists themselves “experience many new feelings—and odd mixtures of feelings—making the music we’re making,” Eno says, “which is a big part of what makes it so compelling to create. These feelings still get triggered listening back to it. It’s like making a portal for states you want to be in, to visit.”
Wolfe and Eno’s collaborative partnership is incredibly creative, obviously, but also has “a natural and yet very mysterious synchronization.” They realize how special it is to connect with someone “who is equally much more interested in detours than tours. Almost all of our music was spontaneously created together, in the moment,” they say. “To do this on one’s own feels close to magic but to be able to do this with another person moves into Alchemy. There is no better feeling.”
And what better way to celebrate that rare feeling than to find new—and unearthly—ways to share it? Wolfe, who loves places and spaces that “time somehow forgot, wonders hidden in plain sight,” first broadcast her solo album from the Holmdel Horn Antenna in New Jersey in 2018. Working with Dr. Robert Woodrow Wilson, the astronomist and Nobel Prize laureate who used the massive antenna to discover evidence of the Big Bang theory in 1964, they modified it to convert soundwaves into a microwave signal that can travel at the speed of light.
In October 2025, Wolfe and Eno broadcast the entirety of Liminal into space via the Horn, a natural decision “given that this music feels to both of us like an exploration of new territories,” she says. She’s inspired when exploring fascinating worlds and new ways of telling a story, especially when it intertwines art, technology, science and other disciplines.
While the act of the broadcast itself feels revolutionary enough, the Holmdel Horn Antenna is also a National Historic Landmark. The global science community, activists and New Jersey locals came together to fight against development and the removal of the priceless piece of scientific history. Dr. Robert Woodrow Wilson Park was established in 2023, protecting both the antenna and its surrounding land.
As for what’s next for Wolfe and Eno, more music is in the works—and we truly hope the collaborators continue to share their one-of-a-kind creations in unimaginable ways. “It’s impossible to draw a line with this work,” Eno says. “It feels like making music in a dream.”
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