Kalle Laar // Germany
Calling the Glacier
Call me:
Vernagtferner (A) +49 89 3791 4058
Pasterze (A) +49 89 3741 4602
www.callingtheglacier.org
Sound artist Kalle Laar has set up the first direct telecommunications hook-up with European glaciers. Microphones placed in the landscape of glaciers provide users with an up-close-and-personal auditory experience: the actual sounds—hissing, streaming, creaking, grunting and groaning—made by these melting ice-giants. This lingering glacial process of erosion will be transmitted directly in real time to cellphones.
In cooperation with Vodafone Group R&D and the Commission for Glaciology of the
Calling the Glacier nominated for the Prix Green 2008
www.soundmuseum.com
www.kunstoderunfall.de
Agua Benita : René Francisco // Cuba
Calling the Glacier : Kalle Laar // Germany
Endangered Waterfalls : Rúrí // Iceland
Former Farmland : Wapke Feenstra // Netherlands
City Concepts for Istanbul: Silvia Erdem // Turkey
Intrigue E : Silver & Hanne Rivrud // Norway
