World Premiere - The Ether of Infinity (Walker) - The Sydney Children's Choir

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Documenting the invention of WiFi, the Ether of Infinity expresses the breathless exhilaration involved in an accidental discovery which would change the state of modern technology.

This world premiere of the fifth movement from Dan Walker's "Moments that Shaped Australia" was performed as part of the Eternal Voices concert at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place by The Sydney Children's Choir, conducted by Lyn Williams.

Eternal Voices
14 June 2018
City Recital Hall

Lyn Williams, conductor
Sally Whitwell, piano
Julian Smiles, cello
The Sydney Children's Choir
SCC Young Men's Choir
SCC Junior Performing Choir

The Ether of Infinity
The CSIRO Invention of wireless data transfer
Words and Music by Dan Walker

Imagine words and images on highways in the air,
A multitude of interwoven gossamer in intersecting streams,
Gigabytes of scrambled information fly in formation high above,
Disassembled and assembled all around us, all the while unseen.

The font of human knowledge at our fingers, in our grasp,
Coalescing in the ether of infinity,
We wonder at the marvel of this modern miracle,
Our Antipodean connectivity.

From radio waves, we found a way,
To understand their patterns,
How they behave.

Out into the world we send our messages and thoughts,
And smile at faces carried on the wave,
But has it come to save us, or enslave?