Svalr.
OD
OD is Alex O‘Donovan whose SITE is the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
Living between structured and textural forms, Svalr is a collection of sonic reflections and impressions from a field recording expedition to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Built from the sounds of glaciers, fjords, wildlife and human structures, OD’s debut explores the synchronous harmonies of an isolated, extreme and rugged landscape. Each track on Svalr is representative of a day of environmental recordings, which play back as a sensory, field journal of Svalbard’s changing climates and unconventional acoustics.
On Svalr, OD reaches beyond traditional ambient recording to magnify the subperceptual. The sound offers a new perspective on a fragile landscape and sensitive ecology, and the human connection and disconnection across the land that, despite its remoteness, critically absorbs the global impact of humans in the Anthropocene.
