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This is What a Melting Glacier Sounds Like
2013-02-07 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: If a glacier melts in the Arctic and theres no one around, does it make a sound? Jonathan Perl thinks it does. The City College of New York musicologist was asked by climatologist Marco Tedesco to translate data records on Greenlands melting ice into sound. The result is a series of sonifications, on display through next week at CCNYs POLARSEEDS exhibit, that combine quantitative data with music to create an audio snapshot of climate change. Steady, long-term changes that are invisible to the...
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