La mer gelée (the frozen sea)

"For my composition La Mer Gelée (The Frozen Sea), I used a field recording from a frozen beach (Munkkiniemi Beach) in Helsinki, Finland. I was immediately drawn to the the idea of sound coming from ice crystals that literally touch the sea. My head filled with ideas for reimagining these frozen sounds into music. 

"I was focused on glitching sounds, using fragments of electronic and minimal acoustic tones along side the original field recording. I was seeking to find the beauty of a frozen world within a microsound environment. Not mechanical, but an organic world containing interferences and errors that reveal harmonic undertones from the natural world. Enjoy!"

Finnish frozen beach reimagined by Jeff Dungfelder.