FANTASTiC | 24 March 2025 | 634.47 MB
气候变化的一些表现很容易想象：冰川融化、海平面上升、灾难性风暴。永久冻土不是其中之一；它有时被称为“无形的威胁”。永久冻土层是指冻结至少2年的土地。在北半球，大约有900万平方英里的地区被永久冻土层覆盖——几乎是美国、中国和加拿大面积的总和。当全球气温上升，永久冻土开始融化时会发生什么？据估计，永久冻土中冻结在地下的碳含量几乎是目前大气中碳含量的两倍，所以当它融化时，它会释放出碳（以及其他气体）。碳是一种被困在大气中的温室气体，导致全球变暖加剧，形成一种恶性循环。因此，无形的威胁。
制作人Charles Van Kirk，乐器演奏家/作曲家David Crowell和Splice的Max Belau前往阿拉斯加，试图发出这种无形的威胁。他们会见了阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学的科学家，并就永久冻土研究采访了他们，他们在德纳里国家公园及其周边地区录制了大量的现场录音，其中包括阿拉斯加本地人克罗威尔的萨克斯管表演。回到工作室后，Van Kirk制作并混合了这个样本包，使用现场录音创建了一个感官打击乐器，并对Crowell的萨克斯管进行了广泛的重新采样和处理。最终的结果是一个非凡的和实验性的包，音景：永久冻土。
住在永久冻土上，知道房子地基下的土地寿命有限，是什么感觉？在因路基融化而弯曲的道路上上下班？看看那些从附近的永久冻土中浸出铁而变成亮橙色的河流？当你使用这些声音时，我们邀请你想象这些正在发生的场景。
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Some manifestations of climate change are easy to visualize: glaciers melting, rising sea levels, catastrophic storms. Permafrost is not one of those things; it is sometimes referred to as an “invisible threat.” Permafrost is any ground that remains frozen for at least 2 years. There are approximately 9 million square miles of area covered by permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere – nearly the size of the United States, China, and Canada combined. What happens when global temperatures rise and permafrost starts to thaw? It is estimated that permafrost holds nearly twice as much carbon frozen in the ground as exists in the atmosphere right now, so when it thaws it releases that carbon (among other gases). Carbon is a greenhouse gas that gets trapped in the atmosphere, leading to more global warming, creating a sort of vicious cycle. Hence, the invisible threat.
Producer Charles Van Kirk, instrumentalist / composer David Crowell and Splice’s Max Belau traveled to Alaska to try and sonify that invisible threat. They met with scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and interviewed them about permafrost research, they recorded extensive field recordings in and around Denali National Park, featuring saxophone performances by Crowell, an Alaska native. Once back in the studio, Van Kirk produced and mixed this sample pack, creating a Sensory Percussion instrument using the field recordings and doing extensive re-sampling and processing of Crowell’s saxophones. The end result is an extraordinary and experimental pack, Soundscapes: Permafrost.
What does it feel like to live on top of permafrost, knowing that the ground beneath your house’s foundation has a limited life span? To commute to work on roads that are warped by the thaw of the substrate? To look at rivers turned bright orange from iron leaching into the water from nearby permafrost? As you use these sounds, we invite you to imagine these scenarios that are happening now.
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