Inner climate

"The field recording of colliding icebergs sounded naturally rhythmic in places so I used it as a loop to begin the composition. This is overlaid with a piano phrase and an obscured audio track of someone describing their views on climate change in which they say they are not worried about it and that they are hopeful. This audio is directly followed by an upbeat musical section which quickly gives way to a more thunderous section that combines piano, bass, and drum phrases, the looped iceberg collision, and audio of a person struggling to breathe.

"The central idea of this track is that human voices and opinions about nature, weather, and climate change will ultimately be obscured by the phenomena themselves."
 
Colliding icebergs reimagined by Patrick Mark Duffy.

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.