-> Only Glaciers Know

Soundwalk
, 2024
Tools: Field recorder & microphones, Reaper audio editing, HTML/css/Javascript, Github


https://onlyglaciersknow.com/
(Phone access is suggested.)


Details:

It is,
a story about water,
and a love letter to Icelandic nature.




...

A local told me about the first glacier that died in Iceland, named 'Ok,' when I was in Husafell. It was declared dead in 2014 as it was no longer big enough to support itself and move. A funeral was held for it a year after.

He drove me up a mountain and pointed to the mountain top where OK was. What I saw was a grey mountain covered with scattered patches of white.

Somehow I thought of the dead whale lying on a shallow beach that I encountered in northern Iceland.

Its dark gray skin, exposed above the water, was worn, reminding me of volcanic rock.

It looked like a tiny island from afar.


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