Splice Soundscapes Permafrost WAV-FANTASTiC

《Soundscapes: Permafrost》是一款由 Splice 出品的实验型音效采样包，围绕气候变化中“永久冻土层”这一看不见的威胁展开声音创作。采样包由制作人 Charles Van Kirk、作曲家兼萨克斯演奏家 David Crowell，以及 Splice 的 Max Belau 共同打造，三人前往阿拉斯加实地录音，与当地科学家交流研究成果，并在德纳里国家公园周边采集大量真实环境音。本套音色包含丰富的野外录音、萨克斯现场表演素材，以及通过 Sensory Percussion 设计的打击乐器元素。这些声音在后期被深度处理、重采样，结合 Crowell 萨克斯的独特演奏方式，形成具有极高表现力的氛围音效与实验性音乐素材。它不仅是一款采样工具，更像是一部关于气候危机的声音纪录片。

采样包共包含 374 个音色素材，适合用于电影配乐、声音装置、电子氛围音乐或任何需要自然环境氛围与深层情绪表达的作品中。它既是一种艺术创作资源，也是一种对现实生态问题的声音表达。

Splice Soundscapes Permafrost WAV-FANTASTiC

FANTASTiC | 24 March 2025 | 634.47 MB

Some manifestations of climate change are easy to visualize: glaciers melting, rising sea levels, catastrophic storms. Permafrost is not one of those things; it is sometimes referred to as an “invisible threat.” Permafrost is any ground that remains frozen for at least 2 years. There are approximately 9 million square miles of area covered by permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere – nearly the size of the United States, China, and Canada combined. What happens when global temperatures rise and permafrost starts to thaw? It is estimated that permafrost holds nearly twice as much carbon frozen in the ground as exists in the atmosphere right now, so when it thaws it releases that carbon (among other gases). Carbon is a greenhouse gas that gets trapped in the atmosphere, leading to more global warming, creating a sort of vicious cycle. Hence, the invisible threat.

Producer Charles Van Kirk, instrumentalist / composer David Crowell and Splice’s Max Belau traveled to Alaska to try and sonify that invisible threat. They met with scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and interviewed them about permafrost research, they recorded extensive field recordings in and around Denali National Park, featuring saxophone performances by Crowell, an Alaska native. Once back in the studio, Van Kirk produced and mixed this sample pack, creating a Sensory Percussion instrument using the field recordings and doing extensive re-sampling and processing of Crowell’s saxophones. The end result is an extraordinary and experimental pack, Soundscapes: Permafrost.

What does it feel like to live on top of permafrost, knowing that the ground beneath your house’s foundation has a limited life span? To commute to work on roads that are warped by the thaw of the substrate? To look at rivers turned bright orange from iron leaching into the water from nearby permafrost? As you use these sounds, we invite you to imagine these scenarios that are happening now.

374 Samples