
eqSounds | Splice | 822 MB
简介
气候变化的一些表现形式很容易被人们直观地感受到:冰川融化、海平面上升、灾难性的风暴。然而,永久冻土层却并非如此;它有时被称为“看不见的威胁”。永久冻土层是指任何持续冰冻至少两年的地面。在北半球,大约有 900 万平方英里的区域被永久冻土层覆盖——几乎相当于美国、中国和加拿大的总和。当全球气温升高,永久冻土层开始融化时,会发生什么?据估计,永久冻土层中冻结的碳含量几乎是目前大气中碳含量的两倍,因此当它融化时,会释放出这些碳(以及其他气体)。碳是一种温室气体,会被困在大气中,导致全球变暖加剧,从而形成一种恶性循环。因此,这是一种看不见的威胁。
制作人 Charles Van Kirk、乐器演奏家/作曲家 David Crowell 和 Splice 的 Max Belau 前往阿拉斯加,试图将这种看不见的威胁进行声音化。他们与阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学的科学家会面,并就永久冻土层研究采访了他们,他们在德纳里国家公园及其周边地区进行了大量的现场录音,其中包括阿拉斯加当地人 Crowell 的萨克斯管演奏。回到录音室后,Van Kirk 制作并混音了这个采样包,使用现场录音创建了一个 Sensory Percussion 乐器,并对 Crowell 的萨克斯管进行了大量的重新采样和处理。最终成果是一个非凡的实验性采样包,“Soundscapes: Permafrost”。
生活在永久冻土层之上,知道你房屋地基下的地面寿命有限,是什么感觉?在因基底融化而变形的道路上通勤上班,是什么感觉?看着因附近永久冻土层中的铁渗入水中而变成鲜橙色的河流,是什么感觉?当您使用这些声音时,我们邀请您想象这些现在正在发生的场景。
原文
Some manifestations of climate change are easy to visualize: glaciers melting, rising sea levels, catastrophic storms. Permafrost is not one of those things; it is sometimes referred to as an "invisible threat." Permafrost is any ground that remains frozen for at least 2 years. There are approximately 9 million square miles of area covered by permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere - nearly the size of the United States, China, and Canada combined. What happens when global temperatures rise and permafrost starts to thaw? It is estimated that permafrost holds nearly twice as much carbon frozen in the ground as exists in the atmosphere right now, so when it thaws it releases that carbon (among other gases). Carbon is a greenhouse gas that gets trapped in the atmosphere, leading to more global warming, creating a sort of vicious cycle. Hence, the invisible threat.
Producer Charles Van Kirk, instrumentalist / composer David Crowell and Splice's Max Belau traveled to Alaska to try and sonify that invisible threat. They met with scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and interviewed them about permafrost research, they recorded extensive field recordings in and around Denali National Park, featuring saxophone performances by Crowell, an Alaska native. Once back in the studio, Van Kirk produced and mixed this sample pack, creating a Sensory Percussion instrument using the field recordings and doing extensive re-sampling and processing of Crowell's saxophones. The end result is an extraordinary and experimental pack, Soundscapes: Permafrost.
What does it feel like to live on top of permafrost, knowing that the ground beneath your house's foundation has a limited life span? To commute to work on roads that are warped by the thaw of the substrate? To look at rivers turned bright orange from iron leaching into the water from nearby permafrost? As you use these sounds, we invite you to imagine these scenarios that are happening now.
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