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The Woman Who Listens to Glaciers
Acoustic ecologist Ines Moreau records the sounds of ice. Increasingly, she is recording its silence.
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A glacier is not quiet. It cracks, groans, sings, and — when meltwater runs through it — roars. Ines Moreau has been recording these sounds for fifteen years. ‘I started as a scientist,’ she says. ‘I have become, against my will, an archivist of things that are ending.’
We are drawn, as a journal, to the things that resist the feed: the slow, the durable, the quietly kept. This is one of them.
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