Preserving the soundscapes of the Earth’s coldest places

A new project takes recordings from the Arctic and Antarctic — whales, cracking ice and everything in between — and turns them over to musicians. We talk to Stuart Fowkes, a sound artist who curates a global database of sounds called Cities and Memory; and Geraint Rhys Whittaker, an artist-researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.