INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES explores how sound tells the climate story of the future. It sounds like a bird’s song, and you can't take your ears off it. But it's not – it’s just the popping bubbles of a melting glacier.
A group of musicians equipped with sensitive microphones and headphones set out on an exploration. They head to places in the Czech and Icelandic countryside, either marred by industry or untouched by man, to discover and understand the sound of catastrophe – the sound of ongoing climate change – which, in and of itself, can be far more beautiful, and more imaginative, than what it heralds.
While sight allows phenomena and things to be encompassed in a static state and in a certain entirety, hearing allows us to understand how the sounds affect and clash with their surroundings. Sound is the consequence of an event that happened in the past and points towards a future now being decided, one that may potentially be inevitable and destructive for us. It cannot yet be seen in the invisible landscapes, but – if we listen carefully – it is already there.
A group of musicians equipped with sensitive microphones and headphones set out on an exploration. They head to places in the Czech and Icelandic countryside, either marred by industry or untouched by man, to discover and understand the sound of catastrophe – the sound of ongoing climate change – which, in and of itself, can be far more beautiful, and more imaginative, than what it heralds.
While sight allows phenomena and things to be encompassed in a static state and in a certain entirety, hearing allows us to understand how the sounds affect and clash with their surroundings. Sound is the consequence of an event that happened in the past and points towards a future now being decided, one that may potentially be inevitable and destructive for us. It cannot yet be seen in the invisible landscapes, but – if we listen carefully – it is already there.
