Anyone know where i can find a transcript of this?? I wanna save it

Very beautiful text, and excelletn vocal delivery, the cello is also very beautiful. Altogether sublime.

Everything coheres and transports: the poetry, the string accompaniment, the production. Rapturous.

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From the Human Greed album Fortress Longing: The Internal Campaign for the Safe and Complete Return of the Sleeping Egyptian to the Desert.

Music and Text by Michael Begg
Features string arrangement and performance by Julia Kent
Reading by Tommy Aashildrod

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Lead track from Michael Begg's 2022 album, Moonlight and Sentiment

New Witness

“The whole ensemble work is the product of the data. The melodic lines, the harmonic content, the timbre, amplitude and mode arise from daily average data points for ice concentration and thickness, air temperature, pressure, precipitation and evaporation. The greatest insight here, for me, is that the data did not speak of wild fluctuations, and atonal ruptures to harmony or structure. The data spoke only of these fractional changes, a degree here, a metre there, that brings our survival into question. These compositions, therefore, seek to articulate a richly textured and complex balancing act. If we experience anxiety in listening to these pieces, it is the fear that something might actually occur to break the spell. Should these ambient works rupture, we end.” Michael Begg, 2021 

This recording arises from a commission from the OCEAN ARTic Partnership (People Ocean Planet, Blue Action, MASTs, Creative Informatics) established to bring creatives and marine climate scientists together to increase public engagement with marine data science. 

This work is the result of a collaboration with ocean modellers at the Alfred Wegener Institut. The work would have been impossible to realise without the research and data models created by Lukrecia Štulić, along with her colleagues Tido Semmler and Thomas Rackow. Thomas also provided field recordings.

Invocation

Sample of commissioned work, Sounding The Ice Factory, from the European Marine Board. 

Warm water intrusions may now likely be accelerating Antarctic ice loss with a consequential increase in global sea levels. Should the increasingly fragile ice shelf break away, it will be like a cork being taken from a bottle. The Antarctic ice sheet will quickly slide into open water. The collapse of Pine Island glacier alone is predicted to contribute to a 1.5 metre rise in global sea level. 

All of these elements are implied in the behaviour of the overall system; the temperature of water, the concentration of salt, the rate of current flow, the wind and its ability to transport ice formed in polynyas (openings in the sea ice cover), the rise and fall of the thermocline; the depth at which cold, salt rich surface water meets warmer, deeper water. The thermocline plays a pivotal role in determining the future state of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Thermocline

Sample of commissioned work, Sounding The Ice Factory, from the European Marine Board.

“The second largest Antarctic ice shelf by volume, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, is at the centre of an interplay crucial for the world’s climate. Here in the southern Weddell Sea, the wild cold winds from the continent persistently push sea ice away from the ice-shelf edge. The newly opened water surfaces, polynyas, cool rapidly and freeze, maintaining the ice factory. 
The sea salt is left out of the icy crystals in the ocean, making it denser. The water formed here is among the densest on Earth. It fuels global ocean circulation. It also carries heat below the ice shelf and melts it.
 We can represent and dive into the peculiarities of this system using a sea ice-ice shelf-ocean model. By giving a unique voice to each model element, Micheal has created music that helps grasp these marvellous dynamics more intuitively. 
 The southern Weddell Sea system is not immune to human-caused climate change. If we keep warming the climate, the ice factories will dampen, and the ice shelf melt will eventually increase drastically with catastrophic consequences for the sea-level rise. I believe this music has the power to engage reason and emotion on the way to a better future. At the time of this writing, we can still make a difference. ”
Lukrecia Štulić, Alfred Wegener Institut, Germany

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