Departure to Storsteienen (22/04/2024)
Storteinen. Tromsø, Norway
When the exhibition ended, The Waiting Room for the northern Lights departed back to Storsteinen, the site where the initial recordings and waiting had taken place.
Extract from diary:
There is a strong wind. People turn their backs to it. Across the way, the sun is still up. Mountains. White snow. The wind is very strong.
I walk ahead, looking for a place to put down the antenna. There is a fold in the mountain where the wind seems slightly less fierce. I stop and wait for the others to catch up. When they arrive, I ask what they heard.
Footsteps. The wind. Footsteps. Body. The wind.
I take out the antenna and place it in the snow. The enameled copper end, soldered onto a mini jack, is plugged into the jack jack connector.
The jack jack goes into the Zoom H5. I take out the headphones and connect them to the recorder.
One by one, we take turns listening to the antenna.
Prrpripripr... Psssh... Pshhhs... Pripipripi... Pshhhshs.
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