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2023
Electronics
- Program Notes
- “And the glaciers echoed” is inspired by Katie Paterson’s installation entitled “ Vatnajokull (the sound of) ”. She used a waterproof microphone that transmitted live sound from the Jökulsárlón lagoon in Iceland, which is the largest glacier in Europe. She made a link to encourage people to connect emotionally with melting glaciers. Climate change is having a dramatically damaging effect on glaciers, and the call made a connection to see it happening. Unfortunately, this call doesn't exist anymore due to the melted glaciers. This installation touched me a lot and interested me in researching how is the melting glaciers happening tremendously around the world. I can’t even imagine how bad of the following nationally disasters after melting glaciers. “In 2016, a four-thousand-foot previously frozen mountain slope in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve collapsed, unleashing a flood of rock and mud over nearly nine square mile of glaciers. The release was so massive it was equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake…” I felt astonished and suffocated by researched glaciers information. Thus, I want to mark the processing of melting glaciers by music. During my music, you could hear the scattered dripping sound, the cracking sound, the “echo” sound of glaciers (you could also see it as whale’s sound), the calving sound of glaciers, and the collapse sound, etc.
- Performer Credits
- Conner Viets