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Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby’s cancer diagnosis added urgency to his project, as part of musical collective Mining, to turn weather and sea data into music
By Graeme Green
The West Pole Beacon off the UK’s south coast records weather and sea data
PJ Davy
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Mining
The Leaf Label
Every time Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby speaks, he has to hold down a button on a device in his neck, which stops air coming out of a hole in his throat. He explains the opening-closing mechanism before he reinserts the white plastic disc. It is a heat and moisture exchanger, implanted to allow him to retain moisture in his lungs.
“I’ve had cancer three times in the last four-and-a-half years,” he says, his voice now generated by a tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis embedded in the back…
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