Paul D. Miller, the super-prolific musical polymath aka DJ Spooky, is a fan of science. Hell, he even published a monograph with MIT Press. But I never knew he was THIS much of a fan of science.
Check out the trailer for his forthcoming film project, Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite -- it's stuffed to the gills with nerdy factoids about ice, wave acoustics, glacier ecology, and the like.
More about the film:
Spooky took a trip to Antarctica last year and made field recordings of the ambient sounds. This "sound of ice" will be mixed and remixed live over a 70-minute montage of Antarctic-related Getty Images, creating a "multimedia portrait" of the continent and its themes.
So it's more of a performance-art thing than a movie per se, but it sounds pretty damn cool regardless.
He's previewing a work-in-progress version at the Sundance Film Festival next week. Are you going? Then you're cooler than us. Come on, Scientific American-- you sent us to CES, why not Sundance?
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