A cross posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog.
I like this project very much.
It's beautifully put together, and provides a different dimension to the country.
The creator has interviewed people for the project.
Here's one exchange:
Kaśka Paluch:What does Iceland sound like to you? If you had to choose just one sound that defines it?
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir:
Wind. Definitely wind. I live by the ocean, and wind is the constant background noise. And the sound of waves too, though that depends a lot on the wind. But those two things—wind and the ocean—define the soundscape here for me.
Kaśka Paluch is a musicologist, music journalist, sound artist, and educator, and the creator of Noise From Iceland—the first-ever sound map of Iceland. Originally from Zakopane, Poland, she studied musicology at Jagiellonian University and has published in Onet.pl, Tygodnik Powszechny, Noisey, LAIF, and Presto.
Click the blue circles to hear the recorded sounds e.g. Solheimajökull.
The sound was recorded at the glacier's face. The lake was just defrosting, and the crushed pieces of ice bumping against each other made a sound like wind chimes.
I might try recording some of my own sounds on my next visit. This is a project which you could ask students to complete while in the country.
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