Musician and sound artist Kalle Aldis Laar has been exploring the sounds of glaciers for many years, resulting in the art project "Calling The Glacier," first presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale and since then presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide. The art project is still active and offers the opportunity to call the Vernagtferner Glacier in the Ötztal Valley and hear it melting directly. A microphone at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences' measuring station there transmits the sound of the flowing water. When the Falter newspaper again drew attention to the project in a newsletter last year, the telephone line promptly crashed due to overload (https://www.falter.at/maily/20240126/call-me).

For the project's 10th anniversary, Laar and Klement met at the Vernagtferner glacier and decided to jointly develop a music project dedicated to their exploration of climate change and, in particular, the demise of glaciers. Due to scheduling constraints, "Glacier Calling" could only be started last year and will be presented in 2025, the Year of the Glacier.