Bayelva, Svalbard

In July 2025 the permanent listening station was established at the Bayelva Long-Term Observation site, near Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, where climate and the subsurface are monitored by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute since 1998, to provide data of the permafrost region as baseline for future changes. BayelvaMic is part of the ongoing multi-disciplinary research Common Grounds that was initiated by Julia Boike, Kerstin Ergenzinger and Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari from the Sono-Choreographic Collective and asks how a long-term collaboration between sonic practices and climate science can be translated into public experiences that communicate and offer embodied, sensorial connections to the fragile complexity of planetary systems. The collaboration is also part of the chair of Acoustic Ecologies at Bauhaus-University Weimar.

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