Airspace: Antarctic Sound Transmission

• Main Author: Polli, Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2009
• Subjects: radio; Antarctica; soundscape; sonification; audification; climate; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Antarctic; Antarctic Sound; Arctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/83r992f6

This paper investigates how sound transmission can contribute to the public understanding of climate change within the context of the Poles. How have such transmission-based projects developed specifically in the Arctic and Antarctic, and how do these works create alternative pathways in order to help audiences better understand climate change? The author has created the media project Sonic Antarctica from a personal experience of the Antarctic. The work combines soundscape recordings and sonifications with radio-style audio interview excerpts. This work will be examined in the context of the other sound transmission science and art works.