what does a frozen lake sound like when the sun is setting?

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:03 am

like beautiful serene calm silence?
nope, it sounds like a goddamn space battle.

http://soundcloud.com/dartmouthian/ice-noises

had my field recorder in my camera bag when I was out taking pictures in the middle of a very large lake. right as the sun was going down, it got crazy. non stop cracking in the distance, with crazy laser noises, non stop. I have never experienced anything else like that before.

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:30 am

That's f'in cool. Geez, either that's a dopler element moving away from your spot or the crack opens and ends low. Kinda freq sweepy or like it's a resonant wire plucked. Wild

Komodovaran · Post by **Komodovaran** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:48 am

It sounds like a volcano

Forge. · Post by **Forge.** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:04 am

awesome

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:45 pm

knotkranky wrote:That's f'in cool. Geez, either that's a dopler element moving away from your spot or the crack opens and ends low. Kinda freq sweepy or like it's a resonant wire plucked. Wild

I suspect since it was such a big lake, that it has to do with the whole ice surface resonating like a drum. sometimes when you throw a rock on a lake that's thinly frozen over it sounds like that, but much quieter. the smaller lakes with ice that thick, when they crack, they just make a thud noise.

this lake is about a kilometer or 2 across, and 8 or 9 long, so there's a whole lot more room for a crack to resonate.

I would LOVE to get a microphone under the water! that would be crazy!

Forge. · Post by **Forge.** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:58 pm

it's just surreal to me that you are walking on frozen lakes.. our river just flooded from days of rain after a cyclone up north, and still it hasn't dipped below 30deg C

I have a fan on 24/7

Komodovaran · Post by **Komodovaran** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:59 pm

Forge. wrote:it's just surreal to me that you are walking on frozen lakes.. our river just flooded from days of rain after a cyclone up north, and still it hasn't dipped below 30deg C

I have a fan on 24/7

Well, your name is "Forge" and not "Chest Freezer".

Forge. · Post by **Forge.** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:07 pm

chest freezer almost sounds like some kind of porn super hero

102455 · Post by **102455** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:30 pm

Which lake was it? I wanna Google it and see what's producing that sound.

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:34 pm

stonee wrote:
knotkranky wrote:That's f'in cool. Geez, either that's a dopler element moving away from your spot or the crack opens and ends low. Kinda freq sweepy or like it's a resonant wire plucked. Wild
I suspect since it was such a big lake, that it has to do with the whole ice surface resonating like a drum. sometimes when you throw a rock on a lake that's thinly frozen over it sounds like that, but much quieter. the smaller lakes with ice that thick, when they crack, they just make a thud noise.

this lake is about a kilometer or 2 across, and 8 or 9 long, so there's a whole lot more room for a crack to resonate.

I would LOVE to get a microphone under the water! that would be crazy!

hmmm, I don't think it's that. The frequency would be well too low to hear it. Although the verb on the big cracks is prolly that. The resonances at least. Like a giant emt plate. It's the pitch element I'm onto. Without googling just yet, I bet it's the actual crack running down the ice, crazy fast for hundreds of meters in an instant. Like a crack in a pane of glass. I'm certain i'm hearing it down-pitch. I'm going to stick with the dopler thingy. A stereo contact pickup embedded in the ice would sound crazy cool.

ian_halsall · Post by **ian_halsall** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:38 pm

trapped wind

Forge. · Post by **Forge.** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:40 pm

stonee wrote:
I would LOVE to get a microphone under the water! that would be crazy!

there used to be a site where you could stream some mics under the antarctic ice - no idea what it was called now it was a few years ago - you could hear ice falling off and whales n shit..

simmerdown · Post by **simmerdown** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:11 am

sounds like it was freakin you out a bit too, 'ooooh man', lol

heard the laser noises many times on the lil lake behind my house here, always wondering it i'm about to go thru...its like the giant version of the squeek you sometimes get when you bite an icecube slowly

never heard the lowpitch rumbles before though, thats crazy

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:27 pm

CHANTS OF FROZEN LAKES

Field recording of an unusual natural phenomena : The sounds of a frozen lake singing

http://www.kalerne.net/joomla/index.php ... Itemid=115

footsy · Post by **footsy** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:06 pm

WHoooaaaabbbbooooooo buu buu whoaaaaaaaaaahoaaaaaaaaaaa buu buu

I do love those lazer like sounds. Nice record, you should make this downloadable so we can chop it up.

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