Music For Glaciers

“Music For Glaciers” is created using two chaotic oscillators. These are played within a performance space in order to activate the room modes. Various psychoacoustic affects are created, most evident when the listener moves from place to place within the room. There are hence two important movements at play: the movement of the listener and the movement of the sound waves themselves.

Ok is a shield volcano in Iceland, northeast of Reykjavík, height 1198m. Okjökull was a glacier that covered this mountain, until it was declared dead by Oddur Sigurðsson in 2014. While there is still water on the site, it is what’s called “dead ice.” Like sound, like life itself, a glacier dies when it stops moving.

Performance

This was part of an MMPT Performance night, students and staff sharing the stage to showcase audiovisual works produced for the course Music, Media, and Performance Technology. The location was Pharmacia, Limerick.

I took photos of the other performers on the evening. View them on Flickr.