Jökulsárlón Cycles

Jökulsárlón Cycles

By
Nicholas Brittain


Description:

The Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón) is the best known and the largest of a number of glacial lakes in Iceland. It is situated at the south end of the glacier Vatnajökull between Skaftafell National Park and Höfn. Appearing first only in 1934-1935, the lake grew from 7.9 km² in 1975 to at least 18 km² today because of heavy melting of the Icelandic glaciers.
Jökulsárlón is separated from the sea by only a short distance, and the combined action of the glacier, the river that empties from the lake, and the ocean may eventually transform it into an inlet of the sea.
Huge blocks of ice constantly break off of the glacier and as the separated glacial pieces float towards the ocean they create a concert of many beautiful high and low pitch crackling sounds before eventually melting away into the Atlantic Ocean.


Media:

Inflatable Pool, Water, Resonant Bowls, Computer Manipulated Live Sounds


Year:

2007

Category:

Music

Tags:

• art
• installation
• sound
• Jökulsárlón
• Cycles
• jokulsarlon
• wwu
• western
• washington
• university
• nicholas
• brittain
• shaber
• iceland

[l3odardo]

I really like your installation...

It is great.

[nicholasbrittain]

thank you very much. im glad you enjoyed it.

[Elleso24]

brilliant

[FuzzyGrandma2015]

nice noises

[klemmur]

hehe djöll er þetta kool marr;)