Expiring | Wailing glacier – The New York Times

If you look at this giant mass of ice, it’s hard to get a personal relationship with it. So we want to document this scene to give us an idea of ​​what is like inside a glacier. There is also sadness because you know that all these sounds are now lost. Of course, digesting is something naturally for glaciers, but the problem with no recent return. The more alive of the glacier as, especially the glacier will actually die. All small air bubbles released may be 100 or 1,000 years old. And they make a small “plop” sound, and then they’re gone forever. This project is an attempt to preserve the final glacier sounds. I want to see these sounds I record as a form of language. And so for me, it’s stories spoken on the ice. In our world, we also silenced these voices in the mountains, in the glaciers, in the streams, of animals. They’re not about the discussion, you know? The glaciers have become, in fact, the symbol of climate change. But when you see how the discussion is about the glaciers, they speak more than resources. By the idea of ​​voice, we can also see it as a kind of person. This can change our way of knowing the world and shape our actions. If everything is bad, the glaciers are no longer in 100 years. And we can imagine what this valley is here as if it’s not yet. So it is almost like the last glacier shout in this valley. (Sound from glacier)