British artist installs phone link to dying glacier

Reuters ^ | Fri Jun 8, 2007 | Avril Ormsby

[Daffynition]

If she keeps melting that glacial water and refreezing it ...it would become a colossal oscillating redundancy.

[Winniesboy]

I don't share the rather puritan responses to this on this thread. This is actually a rather neat idea - not particularly profound, but nice. I've spent a good deal of time on and around glaciers, and it's true the sounds they make are extraordinary, quite unlike anything else. I don't see why this shouldn't be shared: and enjoying this doesn't mean you're buying into any quasi-political sub-text, any more than enjoying those "whale music" records means you're buying into an anthropomorphic myth about whales. You can just enjoy it for what it is.

[aruanan]

British artist installs phone link to dying glacier

Glaciers don't die because they're not alive. They only recede, advance, or stay somewhere in between. The use of "dying" and "icy ocean grave" is an example of anthropomorphism.

[Nailbiter]

Can you spare $50, to listen to a dying Glacier

[JLAF]

You can listen to it at this link. They recorded 60 seconds of it.

http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=8659197#8659197

[Daffynition]

Thank you!

I've heard the glaciers' song and hiked them too, yep ... that's what they sound like.