Robert Romano                                                                              About 150 words

11/26/16

Intd: Science Writing

Listening to Antarctica

When I watched the Skype presentation with Professor Glenn McClure, my view of Antarctica was completely changed. I saw Antarctica as only a block of ice that was way too cold for humans to inhabit, but Professor McClure is using Antarctica to live his passion which is music. He is taking the sounds of Antarctica like the crunching of the snow and the noise of the ice and composing these noises into melodies. A goal of Professor McClure’s is to write music from these sounds and eventually share this music with the public.

Professor McClure is having an amazing experience at Antarctica, but he also mentions many hardships that can be deadly. One thing that McClure talks about is how when one is navigating, GPS is an essential tool. One can easily get lost in the identical world of Antarctica and McClure describes Antarctica as a “terrible beauty.”