Via Wunderkammer:How's this for conceptual art? Artist Katie Paterson made recordings of 3 different glaciers and pressed the resulting sounds to records not made of vinyl, but of actual ice!
"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 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 a recording of the piece here
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