Polar electro-ice
Jan 19, 2023, 11:45 AM
"What would happen if in the practice of listening to the sounds of the Polar Circle we identified the climatic changes that this territory is going through? The sound piece POLAR ELECTRO-ICE born from a reflection on the transformations that the Polar Circle undergoes through documentary and sound research. The sounds you will hear were taken from the Polar Sounds project and soundscapes in the Arctic, these were transformed through analog and digital processes to find a new form of territorial listening, a sonority that invites us to recognize that in the last 20 years the Polar Circle has been affected by global warming in a rush.
"The melting of the polar cap and the increase in snowfall are the axes of this piece, generating a dystopian sound, a prelude musicality to this global warming, the field recording was used in its natural form and with sound effects processes generating harmonic layers of sounds and their transformations. It is important that the meaning and effects of climate change be known, since what is currently being experienced in this territory will happen in the south in a few years and in the rest of the planet in the following years.
"It is recognized that there is a longer period of time when the sea is not frozen, generating an invasion of new animal species and a reduction in the population of lemmings, as well as the potential extinction of bears, seals, walruses and seabirds. It is predicted that by 2040 the ice of the Polar Circle will melt if global gas emissions continue."
Unidentified Arctic sound reimagined by Elena Castillo / Elentric.
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.
"The melting of the polar cap and the increase in snowfall are the axes of this piece, generating a dystopian sound, a prelude musicality to this global warming, the field recording was used in its natural form and with sound effects processes generating harmonic layers of sounds and their transformations. It is important that the meaning and effects of climate change be known, since what is currently being experienced in this territory will happen in the south in a few years and in the rest of the planet in the following years.
"It is recognized that there is a longer period of time when the sea is not frozen, generating an invasion of new animal species and a reduction in the population of lemmings, as well as the potential extinction of bears, seals, walruses and seabirds. It is predicted that by 2040 the ice of the Polar Circle will melt if global gas emissions continue."
Unidentified Arctic sound reimagined by Elena Castillo / Elentric.
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.