Another entry in the acoustics of frozen water thread.

This time from a recording made by researchers studying seismic activity on Ekstroem ice shelf on Antarctica’s South Atlantic coast in 2002. Christian Müller, Vera Schlindwein, Alfons Eckstaller and Heinrich Miller registered acoustic activity from a nearby iceberg that when sped up, revealed audible changes in pitch and tone.

Ekstroem Iceberg (WAV, 23.6MB)

Marc Weidenbaum of disquiet sums the discovery up nicely.

Please don’t mistake this for a figment of casual animism. The point here isn’t to attribute sentience to an iceberg; at best in that regard it’s an exercise in enthusiastic anthropomorphism. The point is to revel in the rich sonic attributes of nature, attributes that we can only appreciated thanks to the mediation of technology.

post thread via Disquiet, The music of sound and ABC.au

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