Requiem for a Glacier

 

Requiem for a Glacier is an installation and sound performance work that memorializes BC’s Jumbo Glacier area, an ancient feature of the landscape leftover from the last ice age, now under immediate threat from global warming and resort development. The project appears in three forms: a) a site specific outdoor sound performance; b) an exhibition/ installation featuring audio/ video footage of the performance; and c) a multimedia indoor sound performance. The center piece, a four movement oratorio scored for orchestra and choir, converts information such as temperature records for the area into music notation and features a Latin translation of the BC government’s press release announcing the approval of a year-round resort community at the site that borders a nature conservancy.

Site Specific

Performance

Video Installation

Score

Audio

Publication

Photographic Works