Saturn and Jupiter Revisited

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Wetters, Brent
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Hörspiel; Glenn Gould; North; Radio; Documentary; Soundscape; Jupiter; Churchill
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5452; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5452

I composed Saturn and Jupiter as part of my Master’s degree thesis at Wesleyan University in 2003. It is an electro-acoustic and soundscape composition that responds to Glenn Gould’s 1967 radio documentary, The Idea of North. I made the source recordings while on a week-long trip to Churchill, Manit...