Discover how landscapes sound

ETH Podcast

Listening to glaciers

The creaking of the shimmering Morteratsch Glacier, the rumbling of ash-coloured dams, and the steady sloshing of water in grey-blue Zurich reservoirs… In the “Serendipity” seminar series of Chair of Landscape Architecture Christophe Girot, researchers and students leave the seminar room to explore how places sound and how they can be explored by ear. They do this using no more than a microphone and an analogue camera.

In this ETH Podcast, research assistant Ludwig Berger talks about adopting the sonic approach to landscape architecture, capturing sounds with students, and recording a selection on records. Ludwig also talks about the new publication entitled “Bodies of Water - A Swiss Landscape Trilogy”, a collection from collective sonic and photographic research spanning the years 2015–2021.

ETH Chair of Landscape Architecture Christophe Girot: https://girot.arch.ethz.ch/

Read more about the work of Ludwig Berger: http://ludwigberger.com/index.php/speakers/cargo/

More on the Bodies of Water trilogy: https://girot.arch.ethz.ch/uncategorized/bodies-of-water

Listen to the Chuchchepati Orchestra: https://www.chuchchepati.ch/en/chuchchepati/artists.html

Last, not least find out more about the ETH podcast producers Audiobande here.