Three 33rpm records made of glacier ice. Played until they melt.

[Are_grits_groceries]

Katie Paterson recorded the sound of 3 glaciers (Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull and Solheimajökull) on Iceland. She then pressed those recordings on ice record made of melt water from those glaciers. The records were played on 3 turntables and it took almost 2 hours till they were completely melted. You can listen to one here:
http://www.katiepaterson.org/sounds/katie_paterson_icerecord.wav





http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/11/30/ice-records/

This is something totally different.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Kinda hard to dance to these records." - Republicon Homelanders

"But then again, everyone knows that dancing is the Devil's Doing, the climate is just fine, and Rush Limbaugh has the interests of the Little Guy at heart. Sneer."

- Republicon Homelanders

[mitchum]

2. Fantastic!

Thanks

[Uncle Joe]

3. Fascinating.

Thanks for the thread, grits.

[Rick Myers]

4. If you play them backwards, you can hear...

Al Gore saying 'global warming is real!'

[malaise]

5. Wow

Amazing.

[HopeHoops]

6. That must have really fucked up the needles.

Or isn't that the big issue here?

[surrealAmerican]

7. Cool idea!

(pun intended)

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Heh!

I had no idea that something like this could be done.

[mdmc]

10. by far the most interesting thing I've seen today..

interesting sounds...

[mdmc]

11. by far the most interesting thing I've seen today..

interesting sounds...

[Rick Myers]

12. I assume you'd need some REALLY clean water!

Never heard of such a thing...

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. truly amazing