The sound of the century
Andrea Polli, on her blog from an artist residency in Antarctia, posted an incredible sonified siesmometer recording of “Iceberg B15A” breaking up. The resulting sound poetically begins resembling a windswept desolate icescape, with sonar-like pings and deep submarine booms. Later it features moments of monumental tearing almost becoming a semi-organic, alien scream and later again, skittish gaseous sounds like dry ice on a hotplate…
You have to listen to it. This sound is an allegory of our times.
Andrea writes:
Dr. Douglas MacAyeal, Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago sent me this moving sound file, as he describes:
“…that’s the sound of Iceberg B15A ‘breaking up’ (off Cape Adare, 27 October, 2005)…it’s really a seismometer record that’s been ’sped up’ by a factor of 1000 to make it audible.”Author Website: http://www.andreapolli.com
Author Bio: Andrea Polli is a New York based artist whose work explores global systems.
The sound is linked into the media player below, from the original source at: http://90degrees.shashafeng.com/sound/B15As_exit_open.mp3
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