~ Elemental Foley ~
a solar-powered live audio transmission streaming from the ‘End of the World’ glacier on Mount Ortles, Stelvio National Park, North-Italian Alps.
project webiste here
listen to the glacier here on the locusonus soundmap server
The glacier listens – from geological deep time to digital real time
What knowledges emerge when we listen to a glacier in real time?
How does it feel to become ecological witnesses to our rapidly shifting landscapes?
You are listening to a live audio broadcast from the “End of the World” glacier in Northern Italy’s Stelvio National Park. The solar-powered listening station, installed at ca. 2.600 metres above sea level on the Ortles mountain, has been transmitting since July 2025.
This stream is a living archive of the glacier’s cyclical sonic and material life, allowing us to witness meltwater rhythms, torrential sediment flows carving the ice, avalanches, animal life and the seasonal impacts of wind and weather stroking the microphones, in real time.
The live composition creates a portal between “here” and “there”, connecting us, as listeners, to more-than-human environments as they unfold over time. It is an act of remote presence, attuning us to the accelerating transformations of our planet through sound, technology and listening. By asking “Who is listening to whom?” and “What does the glacier hear?” the work proposes the glacier as a perceptive being within its own environment, inviting the listener to enter a process of ‘listening with’ the glacier.