“Rapid ice melt has been profoundly shaping the alpine region in recent years. It has become an omnipresent and tangible phenomenon, and an iconic symbol of ongoing climate change. Over the past three years, the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot and architecture students of ETH Zurich have been documenting the melting landscapes of the Morteratsch Glacier region, using underwater and self made contact microphones, as well as large- and medium- format analog photography. The sounds of the moving ice mass contrast with the eerie silence of the black and white pictures. The selection of works in this publication turn the evanescent beauty of the glacier into a strong sensory experience; they thus become meaningful witnesses of the rapid changes to come in the alpine landscape.” – Christophe Girot

SIDE A — Winter
1. Freezing: Piezo microphones freezing into the glacier.
Collective student recording | Winter 2016
2. Accumulation: Hydrophones buried in deep snow while snowing.
Vasiliki Papadimitriou and Stephan Mauser | Winter 2017
3. Drone: Hydrophones inside glacier near river.
Aleksander Kongshaug and Marie Jacobsen | Winter 2017
4. Wind: Microphone frozen into glacier during a snowstorm.
Weilun Chen and Masahiro Gokita | Winter 2017
5. Bubbles: Piezo microphones on ice above water exit.
Benjamin Graber, Laura Schu?tz and Lloyd Broda | Winter 2016
6. Milk: Hydrophones on ice above stream.
Oliver Walter and Philipp Bosshart | Winter 2017

SIDE B — Summer
1. River: Omnimicrophone at glacier river.
Nadia Gaiarin | Summer 2016
2. Pond I: Hydrophones in melt pond.
Seonju Kim | Summer 2016
3. Pond II: Hydrophones in melt pond.
Seonju Kim | Summer 2016
4. Crevasse: Piezo microphones inside ice of a crevasse.
Nadia Gaiarin and Sonja Widmer | Summer 2016
5. Sand: Hydrophones under rock on sand river bed.
Collective student recording | Summer 2016
6. Ablation: Hydrophones in large melt pond.
Sonja Widmer | Summer 2016

All sounds recorded at Morteratsch Glacier

© Chair of Christophe Girot
Institute of Landscape Architecture ILA
Network City and Landscape NSL
Departement of Architecture, ETH Zurich
www.girot.arch.ethz.ch