The journey into the world of listening continues: we are delighted that field recordist and artist Pablo Diserens will be presenting their latest album “ebbing ice lines” in our store on Wednesday 27 May from 7 pm. Alternating between listening and conversing, they will bring us into the recording and listening process behind the album, asking the question: “what happens if we shift our perspective and sense of scale to embody that of a glacier?”. Admission is free!
Released as a 2xLP in November 2025 in celebration of UNESCO’s International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, “ebbing ice lines” brings us into the geologies of the Low Arctic. Entirely assembled of field recordings of glaciers, drifting ice, volcanoes, avian vocalizations, and anthropogenic hums, the album sheds light on the minute sounds produced by these environments in Iceland, Finland and Norway. It invites us to think of landforms, especially glaciers, as entities in their own right, possessing a language made of extraordinarily rich ranges of sonic expressions, that draws us into an intimacy with bodies far greater than our own. The album intervenes in a context where warming climate is altering ecosystems and opening up naval and trade routes across long frozen seas, and Arctic tourism continues to increase exponentially. The title "ebbing ice lines" plays with the existing tree line terminology — the edge past which trees do not grow — to imagine lines receding in a warming climate, beyond which ice can no longer form. The result is a dronesque and texturally-rich journey through some of the world’s most fragile melting zones.
Pablo Diserens is a field recordist, artist, and the co-founder and curator of the publishing house forms of minutiae. Pablo is devoted to listening practices, non-human realities, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence. Rooted in ecological engagement and site-specificity, their work emphasizes listening as an act of presence and permeation for a radical planetary interrelation. Taking inspiration from the permeable skin of amphibians, Pablo approaches listening as a mode of becoming porous – a state in which the boundaries between self and world dissolve into a continuous, percolating exchange. In practice, Diserens plays with a wide array of microphones to listen to the minute, often little-known and inaudible, sounds of animals, geologies, and technologies. → www.pablodiserens.studio
