On the Line: The Wind and the Waves

“I have this curiosity about whether we can tune into the wind, or give it a voice. What can the wind tell us?”

That is the artist John Grzinich speaking with Philip Oltermann for The Guardian on the topic of Grzinich’s sound installations, which are large, nylon-stringed Aeolian harps.

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“Men assigned to islands deemed too dangerous for their families spoke of unbearable loneliness, exacerbated by the moan of the foghorn and the ceaseless crashing of the waves.”

That is Dorothy Wickenden writing in The New Yorker about lighthouse keepers.