Documentation from departures
The following are notes from recording sounds of waiting to hear the northern lights in the area around Tromso (could be published as annotations in the back)
02/02/24, Telegrafbukta (20.00 - 21.03)
I went to Telegrafbukta. I brought the recorder.
no northern lights.
waited by the sea.
02/02/24, Storsteinen
I waited at the beginning of the mountain.
Met a man named Jack.
He was visitng from Australia.
We were both waiting for the bus. He had seen the Northern Lights higher up on the mountain. He asked me if I had seen them too.
He showed me a photo. He told me that the photo was overexposed. Apparently the lights were less visible through eyes.
Regretted waiting down there.
09/02/24, Mjelde (19.30 - 21.03)
I took the bus in the afternoon. Arrived around 17.00. It was already dark outside. Camera died. Waited inside to charge the camera. Waited by the water for 30 minutes. Waited inside for another 30 minutes. Outside around 11:30 PM, we could see some fragments. Recorded the sound as we saw this.
Waited by the sea around Mjelde with Anna Charlotta and Freya. I met Anna Charlotta and Freya the dog in the kitchen. They are friends of Kaja, a landscape architecture student. Anna Charlotta told me I could come out and record where she works at a hotel.
05/03/24, Storsteinen
Waited for two hours. I met Viktor. I was sitting in the Snow with my antenna and he asked me if i was alright.
Getting up to the top of fjellheisen, I had followed two people with flashlights. I had tried to get to the top but I had not brought a flashlight with me and it was getting too dark ahead of me. The others had walked quicker and I was sitting in the snow with my antenna out in front of me.
He was here for three days. He had gone from Gdansk, where he had left a suitcase with his suit. He told me he was a lawyer and that he was going here to ski and to see the northern lights. Coming back he had a case in Warsaw, so he hoped his planewould not be late. I took the bus in the afternoon. We went out. Camera died. Waited inside to charge the camera. Waited by the water for 30 minutes. Waited inside for another 30 minutes. Outside around 11:30 PM, we could see some fragments. Recorded this. He used to work with politics, but then his party won and he thought that was that. Yesterday he had seen the northern lights from the bridge, he showed me a photo. Viktor took a photo of my recorder. I went down with the Gondola around 22.00, and just at that moment from the gondola, I saw something in the distance.
06/03/24, Storsteinen (17.43-21.00) It was very cold. Waited indoors. Then went back down. Went to the bus stop. Waited for the bus. Two elderly ladies approached me while I was waiting for the bus. They asked me if I saw the northern lights that were a bit further of.