From trippy mushroom synths to the stressed-out "pops" of thirsty plants, recording the music of nature has long been fascinating and moving. A new recording of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps, however, goes over the line right into devastation. Recorded by French sound artist Ludwig Berger at the rapidly-retreating Morteratsch glacier in the upper part of the Swiss Alps, the "Crying Glacier" project is, essentially, exactly what the name suggests: the documentation of an ancient structure's last breaths. In a short documentary of the same name that was produced by the Danish studio El Flamingo and plugged by […]