Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson won a Nobel Prize for a discovery that confirmed the Big Bang theory. The static on your television, the white noise between radio stations — that sound is the remnant of a universe coming into being. No story about how humanity reached the idea of the Big Bang theory can be told without Penzias and Wilson.

Penzias and Wilson.

What kind of music would a duo named “Penzias and Wilson” play? Not the scientists themselves, mind you. Just a pair of musicians, one named Penzias, the other Wilson.

That’s the question.

This project may not necessarily be the answer.

Latest news

Penzias and Wilson release new single February 2025

Using the modes of limited transposition from Olivier Messiaen, this new track seeks the familiar in harmonic terrain rarely explored outside classical music circles.

Penzias and Wilson debut EP arrives October 2024

The seven-track EP centers around the A-flat major scale and the modes derived from each note in the scale.

Penzias and Wilson announce new single, debut EP

"Tantalus Sunset" arrives April 26, 2024, followed by "Low Modes" in Fall 2024.

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Releases

Scene 1 on Modes 4 and 6

Low Modes

Tantalus Sunset

Sonata Agita

Rescue the Fly

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