Cities and Memory - Polar Sounds

Karhide · 2023-02-06T09:33:00.186Z

This is a new project that has launched today from Cites and Memory in collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

Cities & Memory | Field Recordings, Sound Map, Sound Art

Polar Sounds - reimagining the sounds of the Arctic and Antarctic

Polar Sounds is a project to reimagine, remix and recontextualise the sounds of some of the world's remotest regions.

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

I’ve contributed one of the remixes as well as building the audio player on the Cities and Memory site

Karhide · 2023-02-06T15:19:07.373Z

There was an article about it on the BBC

BBC News

The Antarctic and Arctic sounds rarely heard before

The poles are not known for being noisy but a project reveals their weird and wonderful sounds.

LyingDalai · 2023-02-06T16:12:01.356Z

And here is the bandcamp album

garf · 2023-02-06T16:17:53.088Z

Karhide:

I’ve contributed one of the remixes as well as building the audio player on the Cities and Memory site

i thought your player was broken for a minute there - but you just happened to link to an almost infrasonic whale song

Karhide · 2023-02-06T16:49:35.297Z

Don’t say that we had an issue this morning with the hosting for the MP3 rejecting because of too many requests. I had to quickly put in a workaround