05/06/2026
One of the worldโs most ambitious public art projects would not have been possible without the ingenuity of a Warrnambool-raised artist.
The Clock of the Long Now, which is currently under construction, is designed to keep accurate time for 10,000 years.
The mechanical clock is over 60 metres tall and built within a hole drilled into a mountain in a remote part of Texas. At noon each day, 10 clock bells will play a unique melody thatโs never repeated over the 10,000 year lifespan of the clock.
Music industry icon Brian Eno designed a musical scale for the bells that made sense of the resonance of the confined space in the mountain, but that scale needed bells smaller than typical European church bells at each pitch if they were to fit into the clock mechanism.
No one was even certain if it was physically possible to create them.
And thatโs where Dr Anton Hasell comes in!
READ MORE: www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au/artists-work-echo-through-time
Dr Hasellโs path from Warrnambool to becoming an internationally recognised bell designer, sculptor and public artist has been anything but conventional, and he will share that story as part of the ArtsACTION project on ๐
๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ.
It's free to attend, but please RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/anton_hasell
