Quiet, friends is a collaboration between Jessica Bowers and l'Artiste ordinaire that grew out of our collaboration on Kepler-19.

Quiet, friends is inspired by the Message From Earth, a gold–plated record that was launched into space on the Voyager spacecraft as an example of Earth culture for whatever extraterrestrial intelligence finds and decodes it. Quiet, friends incorporates materials from Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula.