麻豆社

Crying glaciers, vicious snaps of sea ice, squeals and crashes of ice calvings and fizzling growls of icebergs drifting鈥�Verity Sharp delves into the ways artists have been coaxing a synthesis of voices from the Arctic landscape in a bid to share stories of environmental loss from the most rapidly-warming region on Earth.

Joining Verity Sharp is Pablo Diserens, a field recordist, musician and artist, who makes work 'in solidarity with a wounded planet, inviting people to attune to the present in an attempt at rethinking caring strategies and our relationship with the world and its biotic communities'. They are also a co-founder of record label and publishing house, forms-of-minutia, who over this year, have been celebrating the United Nation鈥檚 decision to declare 2025 the International Year of Glaciers鈥� Preservation, via numerous releases from sound artists working across the Arctic, recording the sounds of journeys through melting zones, listening and recording the complex vocabulary of a landscape in retreat.

Besides exploring stories behind the making of these records, reflecting on what they鈥檝e learned from the year of releases, Pablo offers Verity a sonic history of the ways people have been thinking about and tapping into the acoustic multiplicity of ice and documenting landscape and loss.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3