Geothermal Energy

eqSounds | Splice | 1.49 GB

简介

地球的核心之声：冰岛地热能源采样包

太阳就在脚下？地热能源的奥秘

地球的核心经常被称为我们脚下的太阳。在地下4000英里处，温度可以达到与太阳表面相同的温度。据估计，地球热量内容的0.1%可以满足人类200万年的总能源需求。利用这种能量昂贵且困难，但在冰岛这种板块交界处却并非如此。

冰岛的特殊地理:

这个采样包提出了两个问题：冰岛地热能源的声音是什么？作为物种，我们能做些什么更有效地利用这种可再生能源？

查尔斯·范·柯克和马克斯·贝劳沿着冰岛东北和西南部的断层线旅行，记录了地热能的物理表现：翻滚的泥锅、蒸腾的喷气孔和来自冰岛最新火山熔岩。他们还录制了冰岛最大的地热发电厂、由附近温泉供电的番茄温室和使用热沙埋藏祖传黑麦面包24小时的地热面包店的声音。除了数百个单次采样和拟音，查尔斯还使用这些现场录音制作了打击乐器和合成器，并创作了本包中的音乐。

我们的愿景:

我们希望这些声音能够激发人们讨论解决利用地热能所需的工程问题，从而减少我们对石油、天然气和煤炭的依赖。

特别感谢:

地热能源展览、Fridheimar 温室和 Laugarvatn Fontana 面包店。

原文

The molten core of the earth is often referred to as the sun beneath our feet. 4,000 miles down the temperatures can reach the same as those found on the surface of the sun. It is estimated that 0.1% of the heat content of Earth could supply humanity’s total energy needs for 2 million years. Harnessing this energy is expensive and difficult, but less so in Iceland where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.

This sample pack asks the questions: What are the sounds of geothermal energy in Iceland? What can we do as species to more effectively harness the power of this renewable energy in the future?

Charles Van Kirk and Max Belau traveled along the fault line in the northeast and southwest of Iceland to record physical manifestations of geothermal energy: bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles and lava rocks from Iceland’s youngest volcano. They also made recordings at Iceland’s largest geothermal power plant, at a tomato greenhouse that is powered by a nearby hot spring, and at a geothermal bakery where ancestral rye bread is buried in hot sand for 24 hours. In addition to the hundreds of one shots and foley, Charles built percussion kits and synthesizers using these field recordings and wrote the music contained in this pack.

Our hope is that these sounds inspire conversations about solving the engineering problems required to harvest geothermal energy in other parts of the world where it is less geologically advantageous to do so and to therefore reduce our collective dependency on oil, gas and coal.

Special thanks to the On Geothermal Energy Exhibition, Fridheimar Greenhouse and Laugarvatn Fontana Bakery.