The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

A travel writer shares how a trip to Antarctica helped him see that continent through the eyes of the early polar explorers. Then a reporter focused on climate change and conservation explains how some North American tree species are migrating to survive the planet's rising temperatures. And two Italy-based tour guides take us to the resort lakes of northern Italy, where the glamour extends beyond the natural scenery.

For more information on Travel with Rick Steves — including episode descriptions, program archives and related details — visit www.ricksteves.com.

673a Visiting Antarctica; The Journeys of Trees; Italy's Northern Lakes

Travel down South for your next holiday with DJ TurFFy to 'The Ice' - otherwise known as Antarctica! As the Northern Hemisphere heads for an extended Summer period, the Great White South remains relatively cool with beyond freezing conditions!
Not many people this far south but plenty of penguins of course, perhaps with a taste for fish and Hard Trance!

Ice Capped

Plants Get Sweeter When They “Hear” Bees. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Headlines:

There will be more storms than normal this hurricane season. Will the National Weather Service be ready?

A new study says that plants can “hear” pollinators nearby and will make their nectar sweeter in response.

How penguins could help slow warming in Antarctica.

Shrinking Nemo? Clownfish are adapting to marine heatwaves by getting shorter.

This Week in Water for May 25, 2025

On the dark, secluded underside of our planet, we find its most alien continent, Antarctica. A frozen desert larger than Europe, lying atop a sheet containing more than 90% of the world’s ice. But buried beneath this frosty surface, lie fossils and relics from an age where Antarctica was wildly different- covered not by ice, but by forests of trees. 

Today, we will relive that story as we unravel the continent’s rich history; how it transformed from an oasis of life, into the largest desert on the planet, Antarctica. 

SOUNDTRACK:

“No One is Ready for What’s Coming” - CO.AG Music 
https://youtu.be/SzYGu7uaUu4?si=3aompjTfRKecaWzv 

“If you love me” - CO.AG Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq1FJ_S73tg

“This Machine Managed to Trick Time” - CO.AG Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxQtQJ8wiyQ

“Delay Time” - CO.AG Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVunbxm1MI

“Frozen in Darkness, the Shadowed Halls Underscore” - StoryBlocks Media
‘Futuristic Alien Videogame Music” - StoryBlocks Media
“Frozen City, Mysterious Fantasy Orchestra” - StoryBlocks Media
“Mysterious Darkness, Reveal Fear” - StoryBlocks Media

“Incredulity” by Scott Buckley (Creative Commons 4.0 International License):
Song: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/incredulity/
Artist: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

Antarctica: Earth's Most Alien Continent

On the dark, secluded underside of our planet, we find its most alien continent, Antarctica. A frozen desert larger than Europe, lying atop a sheet containing more than 90% of the world’s ice. But buried beneath this frosty surface, lie fossils and relics from an age where Antarctica was wildly different- covered not by ice, but by forests of trees. 

Today, we will relive that story as we unravel the continent’s rich history; how it transformed from an oasis of life, into the largest desert on the planet, Antarctica.

Antarctica: Earth's Most Alien Continent [No Soundtrack]

Soulja Boy - Antarctica (Icewall)

Listen to the full track here: https://soundcloud.com/fectoper/a-taylor-column
The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column - part 1

A Taylor column - part 2

Remix of "Clouds As Witnesses" by $uicideBoy$ 

ANTARCTICA

Hi! I'm Sam, from SEA on YouTube.
On this account you can find soundtrack-only versions of my recent videos.
Hope you like what you see, thanks for stopping by!

A Games Design graduate with a great taste in writing and listening to Hard Trance music. Inspired by many artists from the 90s' and 00's.

Rick Steves, best-selling guidebook author and star of public television’s most-watched travel show, also hosts a fun, hour-long, radio talk show "Travel with Rick Steves" featuring lively conversations about travel, cultures, people, and how worldwide travel can broaden our perspective.

My bio does not matter at all.
Just listen. 
Be the sound. Be music.
Just be.

To be alive is to be lost. I pray we someday find ourselves and die peacefully in our sleep.

Soulja Boy aka Big Draco
CEO Of SODMG Brand
http://www.souljaboy.net
Soulja Boy Tellem App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soulja-boy-tellem/id6739795851

H2O Radio is journalism about water. We follow water wherever it leads us and report on what we find. We interview experts— from engineers and scientists to legislators and politicians in order to get the facts. But we also talk to ordinary folks to ask how water issues affect their lives. Why? Because we're all in this together. This is a conversation about water and our collective water future.

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