Paul Walde

If we’ve turned away others, who will take us in?

New research in the northern part of Greenland finds temperatures are already 2.7 degrees warmer than they were in the 20th century.

New research suggests that the Earth will lose about half of its glaciers, even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming — the world's global warming goal.

As the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, composer and artist Paul Walde crafts a striking homage to a melting glacier.

As the sun turns red and a haze covers the blue sky, it is clear that climate change is only getting worse. Eight years later, Paul Walde’s sound performance and video installation Requiem for a Glacier is as important as ever. Made in 2013 in response to the Jumbo

Galerie des arts visuels de l’Université Laval Québec 27 novembre— 21 décembre 2014   Le 27 juillet 2013, Paul Walde réunit un petit groupe de volontaires et d’activistes afin d’interpréter la performance sonore Requiem for a Glacier sur le site des glaciers Jumbo en Colombie-Britannique,...

“You can recognize the patterns,” he said. “Any sound can start operating like music once you start hearing it in a certain context.”

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This profile and Q&A is a continuation of our series on the Awi’nakola: Tree of Life project. Paul Walde is an interdisciplinary artist and professor at the University of Victoria. Often using sound and music composition in performance works that take place in the natural environment, Walde has been engaged with addressing environmental issues for more than 25 years. Walde’s best-known work, Requiem for a Glacier, involved bringing a 55-piece choir and orchestra to perform live on the Farnham Glacier in the Purcell Mountains in part to bring attention to the then proposed—now shelved—Jumbo Glacier Resort development project, as well as climate change. The resulting multichannel sound and video installation has been shown all over the world and continues to be exhibited to this day.  His recent and current exhibitions include Alaska Variations at Indexical; HYPER-POSSIBLE: The 3rd Coventry Biennial at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum; Ecologies: Song for the Earth at Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal; and Weeks Feel Like Days, Months Feel Like Years at the Anchorage Museum. We caught up with Walde after our week with the Awi’nakola: Tree of Life team in Kwakwaka’wakw Territory, where he spent the majority of his days working on his future project, Forestorium. The proposed project is an operatic site-specific performance and subsequent video installation focused on a remaining unprotected old growth forest on Vancouver Island. We discussed with him his role in the Awi’nakola Project, how art and culture can be instrumental in social and environmental movements, and how he became involved in

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Paul Walde is an intermedia artist, composer, and curator. Walde’s work suggests unexpected interconnections between landscape, identity, and technology. Paul Walde is an intermedia artist, composer, and curator. Walde’s work suggests unexpected interconnections between landscape, identity, and technology. Recent exhibitions of his work include: The View from Up Here at the Anchorage Museum (2016), Nature’s Handmade at Museum London (2015) and All Together Now at the University of Toronto Art Centre (2014). Walde is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (BFA) and New York University (MA). In 2012 he relocated to Victoria, British Columbia, where he is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Department Chair at the University of Victoria. Walde is a founding member of Audio Lodge, a Canadian sound art collective and EMU Experimental Music Unit a Victoria-based sound ensemble. The Fall 2016 Art Now Speakers' Series is organized and curated by Professor Susan Edelstein as a component of ongoing academic offerings in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. The Series is generously supported by The Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

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Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. While the world’s leaders are meeting at COP27 to discuss climate change, Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting. The world’s coastlines face catastrophic consequences. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell went to see it with his own eyes. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Walde is an intermedia artist based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Listen to this episode from How to Save a Planet on Spotify. “We’re all doomed.” If you’ve ever thought this to yourself while looking down at the remnants of your paper straw floating in your plastic coffee cup (just me?), you may be experiencing climate anxiety. Climate feelings, like anxiety and grief, are on the rise all over the world. And researcher Britt Wray started feeling them herself when she was newly married and started thinking about having children. So she started to study these feelings to learn more about the roots of her climate anxiety, how common it was, and why learning to cope with it is an important step towards taking climate action.Guest: Britt WrayCalls to Action If you’re looking for climate related mental health treatment, the Climate Psychology Alliance has a directory of climate-aware therapists in North America and the UK If you’re looking to connect with others over climate anxiety, check out some Climate Cafe directories here and here, or search “my city + climate cafe” to find one near you. If you want to host your own Climate Cafe, here’s a discussion guide. The Good Grief Network and Climate Awakening also host virtual ways to connect. If you want to try some of the mindfulness techniques that Britt mentioned as a way of stretching your window of tolerance, check out the Free Mindfulness Project and Headspace If you want to check out Britt’s work on climate anxiety, you can subscribe to her substack Gen Dread or check out her book Generation Dread Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram.This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by Anna Ladd. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz, Daniel Ackerman, Hannah Chinn, and Meg Driscoll. Our supervising producers are Katelyn Bogucki and Matt Shilts. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Our fact checker for this episode was Stephanie Abramson.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Listen to this episode from The Science of Everything Podcast on Spotify. Concluding our series on geographic landforms, here I discuss glaciers, including their global distribution, formation, movement, and various glacial formations such as moraines, drumlins, and fjords. I also examine the role of ice in shaping periglacial landscapes, including the effects of permafrost and other frost action processes. I conclude with a brief discussion of groundwater, aquifers, and the hydrological cycle. If you enjoyed the podcast please consider supporting the show by making a PayPal donation or becoming a Patreon supporter. https://www.patreon.com/jamesfodor https://www.paypal.me/ScienceofEverything