A note from Angela Rawlings:
"A glacier's music takes practice to hear. It is so gentle, so familiar, almost as though it comes from inside yourself. Listening for the glacier's music invites you to listen with your whole body. You listen to the temperature. You listen to the colors. you listen to the many forms that water and wind take as they play together.
"The wind plays the glacier as an instrument, the scrabble of fresh snowfall hushing an almost imperceptible whisper. The snow may become compacted to form the newest layer of glacier ice in the future, if the climate conditions allow. In this way, we hear the ghostly whispers of glaciers' future when we listen to snow falling on a glacier. ..."
"It is so important that we practice listening to ourselves, to each other, and to the ecosystems and their inhabitants who sustain us. It is especially important to consider how we listen in this time of climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
"Due to global warming, glaciologists now predict that Snaefellsjökull will become extinct in the next fifteen to twenty years. This is a remarkable 'cultural' loss: the glacier is a visible landmark from the capital of Reykjavik [Iceland]."
