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Field recording based composition by Alëna Korolëva.
Recorded in Ontario, Canada in 2021.

This composition combines recordings made at different times of the year on Lake Ontario in order to track and trace the shifting climate. Sounds of thinning ice emerge from cracks spreading in a curving pattern. Winter guests from the Arctic arrive: long-tailed ducks call to each other. The piercing sounds of military jets provide a stark contrast to an ecosystem of co-operation and accommodation. Skipping stones turn the lake into a vibrating plate. Each impact creates a flexural/bending wave, radiating sound into the air, the short waves/high frequencies arriving first. These waves track the ice’s vanishing act, a harbinger of both the new season, and the seasons already lost, as climate shifts are written in the math of disappearance.

Howling winds carry the strident voices of barn swallows, diving close to the water then disappearing into the air. Frogs call out and synchronize bold hopes from the green spring. Canada Geese make a honking turn into summer, before new frogs start up again in rolling waves. Summer thunder rumbles across the horizon as a distant shimmer appear, a dream mirage of lightness, an ambient promise of restfulness. Light rain patters across a stretched fabric, awning, coat or umbrella, before a final growling bass note signals an end.

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from framework​​​:​​​seasonal :​​​:​​​: issue #12 :​​​:​​​: winter 2023, released February 8, 2023

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