This year for World Listening Day 2024 – The Weave of Time, I decided to concentrate on the sounds of water – vital for ecosystems , communities, farming, fishing, industry – for life.

I live in an area where it is prevalent, either as rain, coast, streams and rivers but even here there has been a shift towards windier wetter winters, drowned fields and torrents of rainfall. The seasons are being erased, morphing into just weather.

Firstly, I decided to create a reimagined soundpiece about the melting glaciers due to the earth warming. With rapid climate change, the glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising. The weave of time is unravelling.

I took an original 45 minute field recording of traffic and surrounding street ambience recorded by freekit on Freesound and reduced it down by selecting tiny samples of the whole recording.

By processing, manipulation and editing the samples, I created a sonic sketch of cracking melting glaciers that culminate in a loud wave of static, representing a large wave of water we are unable to stop.

You can find out more about my World Listening Day 2024 project, here.

Many thanks to freekit on Freesound for the use of the original soundfile and to Makri27 on Pixabay for the original video that I have digitally reworked and used under the Pixabay Content License.

Best listened through headphones but beware loud sounds.