Good morning!
Did you grow some fins during this night?
Anyway, after having spent so much time almost underwater, we zoom out and observe how water is forming landscapes.
Rivers erode whole mountains, they create wonderful meandering landscapes and finally, they flow out into a delta …. Some of the waters are stored in glaciers - an element in our landscape that is vanishing with every day that passes. A traveler in the past has come across very different sceneries than a traveler today …
Speaking of today, right now, we have a very special guest with us - a time traveler - and he will tell us of some water and ice worlds that are long gone.
Alan Alpenfelt is a Swiss artist who works with sounds. At the Sonohr festival, he invites us to travel through time with his project Binaural Views of Switzerland. Alan is following the footsteps of William England in 1863. England made a photographic journey where he created a lot of stereo photographs. Alan is revisiting the exact same places again in 2020 - and the changes in the landscape are dramatic - especially in places where glaciers were the main element of interest for 19th century travelers.
The Rhone glacier for example stored a huge amount of water in 1863 - but well, where is the glacier now?
In our podcast, we talked to Alan and asked him about the watery stops of Mr. William England and about how sounds can track the changes in time. You can listen to the interview in this week’s podcast No. 1!
And here is what we are going to do today: Imagine traveling back in time. Go and look around how the landscape around your water body evolved … What do you hear? What sounds can you find in the past? And how does the present sound?
Create and imagine the sounds of a waterscape through time.
Please share your sound and an image / video with us:
Post a film / recording (around 1 minute in length) with an image on Instagram using the #waterscapetraveler #ambientradiogoessonohr #ambientradio #sonohr (like this, we find your work!) OR:
Upload your sounds on Google drive. Please give your track the following title: yourname_day9. Like this we find your work for the weekly remix! OR:
Alternatively, drop an audiofile into our Telegram chat!
We are looking forward to hear your meanders and flows of time! To get you in the right mood, maybe G.F. Händels Wassermusik might be a good choice?
With ripples and waves we wave!
See you tomorrow! The Ambient Radio Crew