Been sick for a few days. Here I'm back, still feeling a bit foggy though ...
I saw this at Toronto's Power Plant group exhibition Universal Code in 2009. Katie Paterson's Earth-Moon-Earth is still one of my most favourite art installations of all time. Here's Paterson in her own words about the very clever yet moving work:
Katie Paterson's brilliant work Earth-Moon-Earth, shown here at Toronto's Power Plant in 2009, was an imperfect variation of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The musical score was sent, via radio transmission in the form of Morse code, from earth, reflected from the surface of the moon, and then received back on earth. Since the moon reflected only part of the information back – some was absorbed in its shadows - fragmented signals were returned to earth. The gaps and absences in the re-translated score became intervals and rests. The melancholic new "moon–altered" score was played on a self-playing grand piano.
