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Katie Paterson: Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull

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The thread of glacial field recordings continues from the Eldfjall recordings of Jacob Kirkegard, to temporally manipulated Ekstroem Ice Shelf byChristian Müller, Vera Schlindwein, Alfons Eckstaller and Heinrich Miller, to Katie Paterson‘s 2007 work, Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull.

As if capturing the audial linguistics of frozen water wasn’t intriguing enough, Katie pressed her own Icelandic glacier recordings into the frozen meltwater from which they came, creating Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull and Solheimajökull — three records she then played on three turntables until they melted.

The records were played once and now exist as three dvds. The turntables begin playing together, and for the first ten minutes as the needles trace their way around, the sounds from each glacier merge in and out with the sounds the ice itself creates. The needle catches on the last loop, and the records play for nearly two hours, until completely melted.

You can listen to an excerpt from Langjökull here.

via: today and tomorrow / i’m revolting / wunderkammer / katie paterson


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