The Winter Stars, by Rachel Beetz

The Winter Stars

by Rachel Beetz

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This 72-page booklet contains the photographs and weather information from each day of the moon cycle from 11 December 2015 to 9 January 2016. Each image was the inspiration from its corresponding track.

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1.	Stars + Aurora – 11 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
2.	Stars + Aurora – 12 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
3.	Partly Cloudy – 13 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
4.	Overcast 14 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
5.	Stars + Aurora – 15 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
6.	Overcast – 16 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
7.	Blizzard – 17 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
8.	Overcast 18 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
9.	Snow – 19 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
10.	Snow – 20 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
11.	Overcast – 21 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
12.	Overcast – 22 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
13.	Snow – 23 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
14.	Snow – 24 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
15.	Stars + Aurora – 25 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
16.	Stars – 26 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
17.	Overcast – 27 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
18.	Snow – 28 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
19.	Overcast + Windy – 29 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
20.	Blizzard – 30 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
21.	Rain – 31 December 2015 01:00:00	buy track
22.	Partly Cloudy – 1 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
23.	Stars – 2 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
24.	Stars + Aurora – 3 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
25.	Overcast – 4 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
26.	Snow – 5 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
27.	Overcast + Aurora – 6 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
28.	Snow – 7 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
29.	Overcast – 8 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track
30.	Stars – 9 January 2016 01:00:00	buy track

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The Winter Stars recreates the landscape of the darkest moon cycle of winter 2015-2016 in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. From December 11, 2015 to January 9, 2016, photographs were taken of the night sky revealing cosmic gestures invisible to the naked eye: star trails, clouds, snow trails, the aurora, all in different combinations.

These photographs were precisely translated into sound using flutes, field recordings, and electronic processing. Each image became a one-hour composition; a sonic transformation of the time needed to create a star trail photograph. The complete soundscape lasts 30 hours.

An international knitting circle created hundreds of “snowball stars.” Some knitters joined in public gatherings and others from their home, including new friends in Iceland, friends in southern California, and my mother in Illinois. The suspended snowball stars illuminate the dark exhibition space; they are simultaneously snow, stars, planets, and lights connecting every looped gesture into the cosmos.

These elements come together to create The Winter Stars; it is at once a sound and light installation, a long-form composition, a community gathering, and a collection of photographs.

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released December 20, 2019

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Rachel Beetz Los Angeles, California

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