Surface feeling

"The idea is that sounds make up the texture of a landscape. Because this field recording was labeled as an unidentified sound, my impression of it was more about the whole soundscape, as opposed to whatever animal was breathing or barking or scraping. The feeling of the noise became the focus. I included digging sound effects and home field recordings of rocks and sticks and other objects, processed with Ableton’s Granulator II and Grain Scanner plug-ins to create rhythms of physical sounds, the up-close grit. Over those rhythms I recorded flute processed through various reverb, delay, and pitch-shifting effects from an Eventide H9, to create harmony in the breathing, wind-like sounds, and also as light."

Unidentified Arctic sound reimagined by Nicolo Scolieri.

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.