Good Vibrations: The Legacy of the NASA Voyager Recordings

By K.E. Roberts / May 11, 2026 In 1992, an entity called Brain/Mind Research released a series of five CDs, Symphonies of the Planets: NASA Voyager Recordings, that purported to be created from original Voyager recordings of the electromagnetic ‘voices’ of the planets and moons in our Solar System… The complex interactions of the cosmic plasma of the universe, charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind, planetary magnetosphere, rings and moons create vibration ‘soundscapes’ which are at once utterly alien and deeply familiar to the human ear. I first heard the recordings in the early 2010s and was fairly mesmerized, and at first kind of believed, or wanted to believe, that the sounds actually came from the most famous space probes in the universe. The truth, alas, is not as starry—but it’s still a lot of fun. Brain/Mind Research was a label created by Dr. Jeffrey D. Thompson (his doctorate is in chiropractic), a musician and the founder and director of Carlsbad,…