Peter Green | Glacier Call Box Design

The “Glacier Call Box” design came from a love of cassettes, field recordings, and a very lucky public school science supply auction. We converted these Fisher Scientific EMD 1000s into cassette players with simple user interfaces. Preserving the housings, we wanted the call boxes to feel like something you might find in a base camp or remote mountain area at a ranger station. Using 3D printing, $3 floating picture frames, $11 Walkmen and Adafruit magic inside the box— visitors to Brittle Geometries are able to listen to field recordings from Khumbu Glacier and Langjokull Glacier.

Biography:

Pete Green (he/him) received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 2001. He leads the thermal and high-performance-computing section in the aerospace and mechanical engineering group at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. During the pandemic Pete has become a DIY sound electronics enthusiast – building a full Lyra8 synthesizer and from scratch amplifiers for piezo sensors, guitars and lighting displays.