Can you hear Alaska?
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This week's New Yorker magazine ran an awesome profile of composer John Luther Adams, which is available online (so that you don't have to subscribe to the overwhelming weekly magazine in order to read it). Adams is a Fairbanks resident who has been obsessed with figuring how to listen to - not look at - the landscape. To that end, he has begun to translate the data being gathered by scientific stations across the state into music. Seismological, meteorological, and geomagnetic information becomes an ever-changing electronic soundscape.
The cool part about this is that it's sort of a collaboration between the composer, who hooks everything up, and the earth itself, which plays the music on a daily basis. Right now you have to go to Fairbanks to hear the continuous piece, which is installed at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Just another excuse to get up there this summer...
The race for the world's first "green" island
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