One hour as sixty million years · Jonathan Coleclough
2007 · mp3 (192 kbps)

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1. One hour as sixty million years (60.00)

An hour-long segment of a piece based on data about global sea level changes over the past 248 million years. It includes sounds based on recordings by Michael Northam, and sounds supplied by Colin Potter.

The poem shown in the image above is by Geoff Sawers, 28 October 2002.

First broadcast 6 January 2003 on Resonance FM in London as part of the ‘One hour as...’ series curated by Ben Green.