Listening to natural soundscapes, it's quite often an effective way of calming the mind,

and the sound of birdsong to flowing water.

But believe it or not, the sound you're currently listening to is the glacial melting in Antarctica.

As much as it's an incredibly beautiful and relaxing sound, it's also a tragedy.

Last year, NASA reported that Antarctic sea ice had reached historic lows,

and this sound represents the physical sound of climate change.

Hello and welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service,

the program that investigates the world's most creative minds

as they make new work and share it with the world.

I'm Tom Rain, and in this episode,

we're exploring the depths of music and climate change with Madame Gandhi.

When icebergs are melting, what's actually happening is freshwater icebergs are melting into the rising levels of the seawater.

And so a lot of air bubbles get released.

And it's so beautiful because it's so fresh and abundant.

Imagine being really thirsty.

And then you just like, like cold, fresh water is just so appealing. I felt that when I listened to that

sound and it's also a tragic sound because it's literally the sound of our planet melting.

Born Kieran Gandhi, she's an American artist, activist and producer,

who originally started out as a percussionist for popular British artist MIA,

an American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation.

She holds a master's degree in music science technology at Stanford University and is on a mission to find innovative ways of using music to motivate and inspire people to care about climate change.

When we fall in love with sounds, when we feel good, when we rest because of the way Chikeda's sound at night in Costa Rica, when we rest because of the way there's true silence in Antarctica and we just hear waves and oceans and it's soothing. We all complain about anxiety

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