The sound of melting glaciers is disturbingly similar to the psychedelic tunes that made Jim Morrison¡¯s The Doors one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all times.
That was my first thought as I listened to recordings of the Kongsvegen glacier in Svalbard captured by Ugo Nanni, a researcher from the University of Oslo who records glacier sounds using a seismometer. He then post-processes the frequencies to make the sounds audible.
Interestingly, Nanni¡¯s research plays into Morrison¡¯s 1969 prediction that in the future music would be made by ¡°one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronic setups.¡± What Morrison probably never imagined was that music and machines would be used to make climate change research.
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