Video: Opinion | Crying glacier

If you look at this gigantic mass of ice, it is difficult to get a personal relationship with it. So we wanted to document this landscape to give us an idea of ​​what it sounds like in a glacier. There is also the sadness because you know that all these sounds are disappearing now. Melting is of course something natural for glaciers, but the problem is that nothing new comes back. The livelier the glacier seems, the more the glacier actually dies. All small air bubbles that are released are perhaps 100 or 1000 years old. And they make a small “plop” sound, and then they are gone forever. This project is an attempt to retain these very last sounds of the glacier. I like to see these sounds that I recorded as a form of language. And so for me these are stories that tells the ice. In our world we also remain silent from Bergen, from glaciers, from rivers, of animals. They are not part of the discussion, you know? Glaciers have really become the symbol of climate change. But when you look at what the discussion about glaciers is, they mainly talk about resources. Because of the idea of ​​voice we could also see it more as a kind of person. It can drastically change our way to perceive the world and form our actions. If everything goes wrong, the glaciers are no longer there in 100 years. And we can only imagine how this valley will sound here when it is no longer there. So it’s almost like the last call of the glacier in this valley. [SOUNDS FROM GLACIER]