The sonically evoked spaces of post-rock in an era of climate reality
While the transmediality of the early Icelandic literature is palpable in contemporary Icelandic art and music, this chapter highlights how the resultant vast, textured landforms of Iceland are mirrored not only within the praxis of Sigur Rós’ post-rock but also in its sonic sentiments of isolation...
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ftunivwaikato:oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/16164 2023-12-17T10:32:03+01:00 The sonically evoked spaces of post-rock in an era of climate reality Schott, Gareth R. Fosbraey, G 2022-12-30 https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16164 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230847-13 en eng Routledge Coastal Environments in Popular Song: Lost Horizons 9781032137957 https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16164 doi:10.4324/9781003230847-13 This is an author’s accepted version of a chapter published in the book: Coastal Environments in Popular Song. © 2022 Informa UK Limited. Chapter in Book 2022 ftunivwaikato https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230847-13 2023-11-21T18:26:04Z While the transmediality of the early Icelandic literature is palpable in contemporary Icelandic art and music, this chapter highlights how the resultant vast, textured landforms of Iceland are mirrored not only within the praxis of Sigur Rós’ post-rock but also in its sonic sentiments of isolation (paired with exterior threats, instability and change) representative of a culture bounded by water. Today, rapid “ocean acidification” due to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ocean as a result of human actions is predicted to have a profound impact on the surrounding marine ecosystem. Sigur Ros’ ambient, haunting and affective compositions exist in the context of a broader artistic construction of “landscape as nation” in postcolonial Iceland. That is, the inclination for Icelandic cultural production to draw on the distinctive and natural features of the landscape – as a “land of fire and ice [ominous volcanos and stunning glaciers], cascading waterfalls, black sand beaches and vast, volcanic plains”. Book Part Iceland Ocean acidification The University of Waikato: Research Commons Post Rock ENVELOPE(-37.983,-37.983,-54.017,-54.017) 150 171 New York |
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While the transmediality of the early Icelandic literature is palpable in contemporary Icelandic art and music, this chapter highlights how the resultant vast, textured landforms of Iceland are mirrored not only within the praxis of Sigur Rós’ post-rock but also in its sonic sentiments of isolation (paired with exterior threats, instability and change) representative of a culture bounded by water. Today, rapid “ocean acidification” due to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ocean as a result of human actions is predicted to have a profound impact on the surrounding marine ecosystem. Sigur Ros’ ambient, haunting and affective compositions exist in the context of a broader artistic construction of “landscape as nation” in postcolonial Iceland. That is, the inclination for Icelandic cultural production to draw on the distinctive and natural features of the landscape – as a “land of fire and ice [ominous volcanos and stunning glaciers], cascading waterfalls, black sand beaches and vast, volcanic plains”. |
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