Icy Resolution
I received an interesting comment left by “anonymous” in response to my blog post about Ben Gwilliam's molto semplice e cantabile “A number of artists have made records out of ice. A more interesting and resolved conceptual idea being Katie Paterson”. Until this I was unfamiliar with Katie Paterson and I am grateful to the commenter for drawing my attention to her; she has some really interesting work including a piece called Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull which according to her website is made up of sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with the meltwater from each of these glaciers, and played on three turntables until they completely melt. The records were played once and now exist as three digital films. 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 c