Eldad Tsabary takes part of this CD with his
piece Creatures of the Ice.
Creatures of the Ice
duration : 4'45
Elektramusic Electroacoustic
Music Volume 02 CD - track 02
Creatures of the Ice is a stylistic
departure from the works of Canadian Acoustic-Ecology
and Soundscape Composition pioneers such as
R. Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp, Barry
Truax, and Andra McCartney in that it moves
away even farther from reality than what Katherine
Norman calls "Real-World Music ".
While the latter allows abstract and imaginative
sounds to enhance the experience of certain
aspects of reality, this piece could be described,
perhaps, as an Acoustic Tall-Tale in which an
absolutely fantastic story incorporated into
the truthful bit.
The work employs a recording of Shards of ice
rubbing against each other in the Artic Ocean
at Tasiujaq, Nunavut by Katharina Soukup (the
truthful bit), using a tiny microphone placed
underneath the ice in the colony of ice-ants,
who work arduously all winter long cracking
ice, flying around and arguing about productivity
issues. Frequently the argument gets heated,
voices are raised and shards of ice are being
tossed all over in a counterclockwise motion
(like the spin of the Artic Circle. Honestly
! " Have confidence in what I say, and
pay honour to the tales of Munchhausen. "
