An imaginary coldscape
Jan 13, 2023, 11:22 AM
"I composed my piece using samples of winter storms, ice cracking and windchimes, in addition to the original recording.
"I started from the idea of imagining the sound environment where the fin whale live.
The original recording gave me the idea to work with different frequencies, representing the different levels of an environment. In that way, the 20 hz pulse that the fin whale emit represent the deep ocean, and the air and the cold atmosphere is represented with higher frequencies, through wind recordings. With the sound of the ice, I created textures that are located in the middle levels.
"The fin whales produce a variety of short low frequency calls. The windchimes create a poetic response to those calls, imagining a harmonious way of coexistence with these beings of the deep sea."
Fin whale reimagined by Verónica Daniela Cerrotta.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
IMAGE: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
"I started from the idea of imagining the sound environment where the fin whale live.
The original recording gave me the idea to work with different frequencies, representing the different levels of an environment. In that way, the 20 hz pulse that the fin whale emit represent the deep ocean, and the air and the cold atmosphere is represented with higher frequencies, through wind recordings. With the sound of the ice, I created textures that are located in the middle levels.
"The fin whales produce a variety of short low frequency calls. The windchimes create a poetic response to those calls, imagining a harmonious way of coexistence with these beings of the deep sea."
Fin whale reimagined by Verónica Daniela Cerrotta.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
IMAGE: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons