…year to year, the air is growing swiftly warmer around the world. This is the impetus for forms of minutiae‘s Ice Series, produced in association with UNESCO & WMO’s Art for Glaciers Preservation. Now in its fourth (of five) installments, the series continues to underline both the beauty of glacial sounds and the threat of their extinction.
Cheryl E. Leonard has been involved in climate issues for years; much of this album stems from a residency in Svalbard in 2011. The difference between this and prior entries in the series is the human element; Leonard shares not only field recordings, but the percussion of found objects such as bones and driftwood, as well as samples and scrapes from saws, boats, beakers and more.
We can imagine David Rothenberg relating to…

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