If you pay attention to science news, you might be concerned by recent reports from both The United Nations and the U.S. Federal Government warning of the effects of climate change. Skeptics abound, however, and there seems to be little political will to make large-scale changes to the way we live. That's why, in part, the National Science Foundation is sending artists and musicians to far-flung places all over the planet. That's how composer Glenn McClure found himself sleeping in a tent in Antarctica. “It was fascinating,” he says. “We were tenting on the Ross Ice Shelf, which is a kilometer thick and about the size of France.” McClure was there as a kind of translator in 2016, to look, listen, and write music in response to the place. There wasn't much to see, he says. No birds. No rocks. No plants. The horizon simply blended into the sky, and he found it disorienting, like being on an ocean of white. But it was noisy, he says, full of sounds like wind and the crunch of different
12/14/18 • 5 min
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