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Katie Paterson – Vatnajökull

Katie Paterson is a conceptual artist who recorded the melting of three glaciers, collected meltwater from the glaciers, pressed three records from it and then played it until it melted. You can hear it here.

I think it’s quite magical. You might not agree.

She also translated the score of Moonlight Sonata into morse code, bounced that off the surface of the moon and played the resulting score back on a klavier. Sadly this doesn’t seem to be online anywhere. I’ve emailed her for a recording of it but I’m not sure if I’ll get a response or not.

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hi pete,

thanks for your nice message, but sorry no, it’s not online…
it’s been sold to collectors as a limited edition, so legally can’t be given out to anyone else…however my book ‘earth-moon-earth’ is on sale for £10 with cornerhouse, and it has a cd of the morse code recording which might be interesting
also, the piano will probably be exhibited soon so maybe you can see it!

best wishes,
katie

Hiatus

Hey. You have probably noticed (all none of you) by now that I haven’t updated in a while.
This is due to me not having done any writing for a bit. I’ve been concentrating on other interests but will be making a return at some point.
Sadly I don’t get enough time to pursue all of them all of the time so I have to choose which of them I’m going to follow at any one time. Currently it’s a music project. It does have literary roots though, so I guess it’s sort of related.
I don’t think I’ll be in a position to do the NaNoWriMo this year either which is a pain, but hopefully I’ll get my arse into gear for next year.