The Sound Pavilion provides an acoustic environment to the “music by and for glaciers”, that is being composed by Landolt through field recordings, algorithm processing and performances in Alpine glacier caves and seracs, crevasses, and glacial lakes.

Morteratsch-, Zinal- and Rhône glacier have been visited both in summer and winter to perceive the different sonic environment. Glacial caves are unpredictable entities because they appear during melting processes until winter freezes their current form, only to possibly disappear in spring again. Early hours on the glacier allowed Landolt to capture unique sounds of the cracking ice melting with the sunrise.

By entering the pavilion the visitor is confronted with the sound of both real time scale melting of ice and the rearrangement of this events in which time is manipulated through sound.

Encounter Iced Sound 2.0 is a collaboration between Swiss composer Ramon Landolt and Zürich-based architect Caterina Viguera. The sonic pavilion has been built by Andreas Lindegger (Bildhauerwerkstatt). This is a new version of Encounter Iced Sound, developed in 2023 by Ramon Landolt in collaboration with rotative studio (C. Viguera and A. Sonnemans)