When Glaciers Sing

Grade / Age

3 - 8 / 8 - 14

Duration

45 minutes

Explorer Classroom is a live, interactive online event featuring National Geographic Explorers.

Listen as environmental composer Konstantine Vlasis uses sound to better understand glaciers in Iceland!

Credit: Marcus Neudigate

Event Recording

Credit: Konstantine Vlasis, Marcus Neudigate, Dr. Kieran Baxter, and Dr. Þorvarður Árnason

About This Event

Explorer Konstantine Vlasis is an environmental composer and audio researcher who uses audio and music to learn how glaciers in Iceland are changing over time.

Featured Explorer

National Geographic Explorers are an international community of changemakers, who use the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world, while inspiring the next generation to do the same.

Explorer Since 2024

Konstantine Vlasis

Composer & Audio researcher

Konstantine Vlasis is an environmental composer, audio researcher, Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow, and Fulbright Arctic Research Fellow. His public talks and performances center on the ways that sound and listening mediate our experiences of changing landscapes, and how music can be a form of climate communication and environmental storytelling.

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