“The inspiration behind the name ‘**Singing Sphere**’ is based on an abiding vision I had 30 years ago while crossing Rue Rivoli in Paris. It was an elipse of light just coming out of solar eclipse such that it could be seen emerging from its top left hand corner. The vision was imbued with profoundest meaning, and with a knowing that a sound, although inaudible, was emitting from it into eternity of which I was a part.”

— Tabitha Cooper

Interestingly, Pythagoreans in Ancient Greece, which they referred to as Musica Universalis (also referred to as ‘music or harmony of the spheres’), where the mathematical proportions of movements between the planets in our solar system were seen as a form of music. Johannes Kepler (a German astronomer best known for his ‘laws of planetary motion’ later developed the theory and believed that while this music was inaudible, it could could nevertheless be heard by the soul. To the Pythagoreans, harmony signified the “unification of a greatly diverse composition and agreement of unlike spirits". The harmony assured the balance of opposite forces.