Snow Flying On Ice, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
thick lumbering lake
bristles at the crackling sound
snow flying on ice
Lake Ice Booming – 1min
Recorded by Audio Producer/Editor/Mixer, Curt Olson at Track Seventeen
More sounds of Winter at: The Sound of Snow and Ice – Various Artists at Gruenrekorder
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, February 24th, 2008
-related to post, haiku (one-a-day)
The ice has been very loud this year. We had an ice crash in the ice near a UW dorm; the building shook so hard, they pulled the fire alarms!
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I love everything about this, QM. The sounds, the photo, and the haiku.
You captured the way the snow flies across the ice brilliantly.
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hey, thanks, barbara and Robin. Sounds scary about the ice crash near the UW dorm. I’m amazed at how loud the sound of ice popping is, too.
I actually found these recordings the first night our roof popped so loud, we thought it was caving in. Liz went outside with the flashlight to see if everything was okay while I searched the Internet for info on ice dams.
We later saw a show on it on TV. And in the case of roofs, it’s actually the sound of the damp wood in the frame that is expanding and contracting that makes those loud roof pops!
I loved these winter recordings links. I wanted to add a quote from the Lake Ice Booming from Curt Olson:
It reminded me that there are whole groups of people that go out with all kinds of microphones and capture the sounds of nature. There are sites where they talk about what kind of microphones are best, how they do it. Amazing, really.
I took a sound class at MCAD (during my film and video classes) and we would do the same thing. It’s incredibly difficult to do. But I’m so glad that there are those who are taking it on. Because nature is disappearing so fast, particularly birds, that to have those recordings will be a great gift.
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BTW, here are a couple of other links with more Nature sound recordings and about the rigs and equipment they create to do it:
Track Seventeen stereo soundscapes: Excerpts from Ambient Field Recordings (LINK)
Track Seventeen: Brief Discussion of Stereo Microphone Arrays for Ambient Field Recording (LINK)
And The Sound of Snow and Ice – Various Artists at Gruenrekorder link in the post provides a whole array of sound artists from all over the world. Audio art. Quite cool.
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What a surreal photograph,
the soft light across the snow. It could be anywhere, another country, another world.
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QM, Wonderful photo & haiku! I was also going to call it surreal, as amuirin did. When you look at it, since there are no other reference points, you could imagine it as mountain tops, or a lake that had frozen over when the water was choppy, or
whipped cream under a microscope!? I love it! Am curious as to exactly what you were looking at.
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The photo looks like something on the Arctic or another planet. Really desolate and cold. Great capture, QM.
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I agree with Bonesy: The image is almost alien.
Stunning, CM.
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oliverowl, Stevo, amuirin, yb, thanks. It does look strangely otherworldly. I was out in the middle of a lake. It was really windy, around sunset, on a cold clear day. I’m facing the sun that is starting to set. But I am kneeling close to the ice, shooting down and across the ice, making sure to crop out the horizon (which would be the reference point for everyone).
I do have other shots (many!) with the horizon and sun and moonrise from that day. I have loaded them into Flickr as a new Set but have not had time yet to get them ready for public viewing. Once I release those, I’ll come back and leave a note here. You’ll be able to gather a reference point from there.
But isn’t it fun to not have one? To think that I might be standing in the High or Low Arctic or on the Moon. 8)
Actually, that’s kind of what it felt like that day. It was beautifully surreal. And capturing the snow, the way it was whisking across the ice, was a great challenge. I wish I had the sound to go with it, the real sound of the snow. (Liz was able to capture some of that on video.) The closest I could get was underneath the lake – the movement of Ice!
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