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e208 clara schryer - science as story
Season 5 Episode 208
- My interest in science is quite poetic. The things that I find the most interesting about science are when it can be woven into a story that makes sense and I think that's kind of artistic in a way: you take the scientific knowledge and make it into a more abstract kind of poetic thing.
Note: I'll be back during the winter of 2025 with season 6 on the theme of 'art and culture in times of crisis and collapse'. Also, this episode was published on October 23, 2024 : our daughter Clara Schryer's 23rd birthday. Bonne fête chère Clara!
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(arctic soundscapes: Clara and Noa Caspi talking about drones + daily check in with Resolute + candle ice breaking + plane arriving)
This is the final episode of the fifth season of the conscient podcast.
(arctic soundscapes: Clara trying to imitate Claude’s style of simplesoundscapes recording while searching for candle ice)
This season began on February 21, 2024 with e154 featuring my son Riel’s research on ethics in science:
- I don't think there's going to be any serious response to the climate crisis until real catastrophes start happening. That tends to be how it works. And once you start seeing that, then you'll start seeing very serious action being put in place. Although, we'll see at that point, if it's too late or not.
(arctic soundscapes: Clara and Noa talking about recording technology)
This last episode features field recordings that Noa Caspi and Clara recorded during a 2-month field research project at the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory on Melville Island in Nunavut during the summer of 2024.
You’ll hear Clara talk about some of her favorite sounds, including the unique vibrations of ‘candle ice’:
- I get to the field in early June, and on the lake, there's two to 3 meters of ice and that only melts. Like, the lake is ice free for like, maybe a couple weeks max, sometimes not even at all, depending on the year and how much ice there was and the temperature and stuff. But this really thick ice as it melts, and I don't know exactly how, but it forms into these kinds of candles.
(arctic soundscapes : Clara and Noa talking about candle ice + Clara walking around in moss)
In between soundscapes from the arctic, you’ll hear Clara talk about the rapid changes in the Arctic and some of the challenges of envisioning a new future and how art might help us imagine possibilities amidst uncertainty.
(arctic soundscapes : bird song, wind)
- Northerners are facing a new world a lot faster than the rest of us are and I'm not sure what to say other than figuring out how to... What's the wording: creating the conditions for the new world… (for other… other possible worlds to emerge – Claude) Imagining what that new possible world could look like is tricky. (And that's what art does - Claude). That's what art does.
(arctic soundscapes : Clara and Noa talking about recording in the field)
My conversation with Clara reminded me that scientific knowledge can be transformed into poetic narratives and that we benefit from both scientific and artistic creative work.
One might even speculate that they are more or less the same thing.
(arctic soundscapes : walking on the tundra)
And at any rate.
All of this requires a lot of listening.
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Sections of the episode (generated by AI and reviewed by Claude Schryer)
Welcome
In this introductory chapter, Clara joins Claude marking the season finale. They discuss the unique perspective of younger generations on pressing issues and the intersection of art and
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