All sound © The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

“An unusually hot summer today will be considered a cold one within 60 years.”

HEAVY LOSS - one of the most used phrases to describe the finance crises of 2009. As a parallel to the turbulence in the finance world is the reactions towards the climate change. Our combined forces to change the down-going spiral of the development of the world is strengthened by the visible consequences as a result of mankind continuence to over consume the resources of the world. A major visible impact is the enormous loss of ice masses in Antarctica. Dramatic scenarios where ice breaks of from the mainland visualises the vast and non recallable event. Huge areas disappears every year when this ice breaks of , ice which will never be recreated unless the earth relives an other ice-age. The disappearance of ice exposes new areas which used to be covered by ice all year around.  Nations searching for new ways of exploiting earth clam the areas in hope of finding hidden treasures such as oil and nature-gas. HEAVY LOSS - holes in various dimension - drilled into the wall. Inside the wall one can hear a live concert of the PALAOA project, underwater sound recorded by two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf, Antarctica. A live farewell concert from below the Antarctic ice sheet - one of earth´s last non exploited places. Sound © AWI for Polar and Marine Research.