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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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BBC Radio 3 - Morse and MusicThe BBC Proms concert on Monday, August 30, now on the web, featured a piece called PK, inspired by the telegraph station at Porthcurno. Local composer Graham Fitkin has been so intrigued by the history of the telegraph at Porthcurno, that he has used it as inspiration for his latest piece of music which was performed at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on August 30. The piece was composed following research at the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, and is entitled PK which is the code name given to the Porthcurno telegraph station, and uses morse code as a starting point. The telegraph used undersea cables to transmit morse code messages around the world, and at the height of its importance, in the late 19th century, Porthcurno, although extremely remote, had the largest and most important cable station in the world. Morse code, with its dots and dashes, was used for transmitting the messages as short and long pulses. Graham has used this code in the form of short and long notes, and the rhythm which stands for the letters P and K, .--. -.- is used throughout the work. The broadcast took place between 7pm and 9pm on August 30 and is available online this week at Click on Listen to Part 1. The 10 minute PK comes at the end of the first half about 36 minutes into the recording. Porthcurno telegraph Museum press release
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