Katabasis

"The process of calving initially suggest a violent phase, but -as one of the meanings of the term - it surely gives birth to other things. We certainly know that Anthropocene, global warming and all these consequences are a painful phase, but I think that we could not miss the chance to positively engage ourselves in creation of something new.

"From a sonic point of view, the composition takes shape entirely from the sample: it's been processed with a modular synthesiser, granuralized and became a sort of microsound feedback tone which reminds me sub water sounds/ whale chants.
So all the harmonic and melodic sounds derive from this. The title suggests that there is  necessary descent phase to become something else."

Collapsing shelf ice reimagined by Alessio.

Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.