Katie Paterson’s Earth-Moon-Earth is another phenomenal installation piece: For it, she converted Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata into Morse code and bounced the signal off the moon. Using the received signal back on Earth, she reconstructed the score, leaving the signals that weren’t bounced back out, and set the new score to play on a Disklavier in the gallery.

You can listen to the received Morse code and piano playback, or see the Morse code and score pre- and post-moon bounce.

From Katie Paterson: Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull and Solheimajökull is a set of three records made out of ice (and the names of the three Icelandic glaciers the water in the ice came from). On the records are sound recordings of the glaciers. Paterson played the three records until they melted, so the sound changes from recording of ice to the melting of ice on the turntable.

Very nice!

You can hear an excerpt.

(via today and tomorrow)