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the_pied_piper:
So artist Katie Paterson has used records made of ice to record the sounds of 3 Icelandic glaciers melting.

Glacier crackling

So as to give the thread some meaning, what do people think of when art meets music? Is this something that can ultimately be used for other purposes or is it really just for show and amusement?

EDIT: Further down the page there is another video of artist Claudia Märzendorfer actually recording music onto ice with amazing results. The ice lasts about 2 hours before melting, I believe.

David_Dovey:

--- Quote from: the_pied_piper on 08 Dec 2009, 08:12 ---art [...] music

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huh

Yakob:
baby

a pack of wolves:

--- Quote from: the_pied_piper on 08 Dec 2009, 08:12 ---So as to give the thread some meaning, what do people think of when art meets music? Is this something that can ultimately be used for other purposes or is it really just for show and amusement?

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I don't really get what you mean. What other purposes? What do you mean by show and amusement?

Anyway, I like it. Reminds me of Bill Fontana, I've really enjoyed the sound pieces he's done in Leeds. The production of the records brings up nice lines of thought, their impermanence and transitory nature inserting these qualities into the monoliths that are glaciers that can be hard for us to really conceptualise. Then you've got the human manipulation an destruction of natural forms for our own ends, but nicely problematised by the fact that this manipulation is forming something of worth. Plus they sound nice.

On the subject of art records, for anyone in Glasgow there's a launch of Ruth Barker's LP of her performance In The Beginning on Thursday the 10th of December at Aye Aye Books in the CCA on Sauchiehall Street. Apparently the records will be free at the launch. More info on the piece here, more on the artist here.

De_El:
I think what the_pied_piper is getting at when he says "Is this something that can ultimately be used for other purposes or is it really just for show and amusement?" is the risk of a project like this becoming little more than a curiosity as opposed to a compelling piece.  The problem though, of whether art is relegated to the realm high-end curio or if it's viewed as a more worthwhile object, largely depends on its reception by communities.  Certainly there has to be something about the work itself that compels a viewer or consumer of the concept, but it's not up to the artist how seriously their audience chooses to take their work or how much the audience chooses to really think about the work. 

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