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I could listen to this endlessly.

Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon)
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, reflected from the moon’s surface via earth–moon–earth radio transmission. Read more and listen to Katie Paterson’s Earth-Moon-Earth piece here.

A player piano renders the familiar strains of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, but the melody contains errors, missing notes, incomplete phrases. Without a human hand to perform these mistakes, one can only surmise that the score has been somehow nibbled at, like a moth-eaten sweater. Indeed, the piano in Katie Paterson’s Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon) (2007) plays a tune that has undergone a series of absurd and poetic transformations. Beethoven’s notes (strictly speaking, their letter names) were translated into Morse code, then transmitted via radio to bounce off the surface of the moon. The returning signal was reconstituted as a musical score and the piano programmed accordingly. Though the tune is instantly recognizable, such transmutations, along with the player piano’s mechanized rendition, quash the sonata’s romantic nuances. The degradation has occurred in the void between earth and moon, but the enduring image is that of the missing notes abandoned on the moon’s surface, echoing through its craters and serenading unknown life forms. (via)