SD28 Living Ice

DESCRIPTION: 

• In Living Ice, get a collection of naturally moving ice. Hear visceral cracks and syrupy gurgles. Hear laser-like chirps shooting and deep musical tones reverberating. Hear long ambiences of owls hooting in counterpoint with singing ice and ice dragons swimming beneath the frozen surface.
  
• This library offers you the sounds of a natural wonder only heard in perfect wintertime conditions. It was amazing to camp at the edge of this lake, hearing these amazing natural sounds as I drifted off to sleep. I hope you enjoy them too. Thanks for listening. 

KEY FEATURES:

• Laser-like chirps and resonant booms
• Massive cracks
• Rich crackles
• Syrupy gurgles and glugs
• Singing musical tones
• Lakeside persceptive
• Out on the ice perspective – mics were placed 30 meters out onto the lake and left overnight.
• 52 stereo WAVs with isolate ice sounds for sound design
• 8 ambiences for otherworldly textures

RECORDING STORIES: 

• In order to find living ice, you're generally looking for thin ice without snow on top. 
• Next, you need a temperature swing that oscillated above and below freezing during day and night. 
• If ice is naturally making sounds, it's caused by freezing, melting, or wind. This usually happens when the sun first hits the ice at dawn, just after sunset, or during a windstorm. 
• The ice I found was cracking every few seconds, so I was scared to walk out on it more than a few meters. But I wanted to record from out in the middle of the lake! What to do? 
• My solution as to tape my microphones to a DIY mount of tree branches, put my recorder in a dry bag, tie the dry bad to a long piece of rope, and slide the whole contraption out on the ice. It wasn't pretty, but worked incredibly well. I was able to slide the rig about 30 meters out onto the ice and was able to capture cracks, groans, booms, and laser-like chirps right under the mics!

FILE LIST:

• Click "View larger version" in the bottom right corner of the File List below to open in a new tab for easier viewing. This works best on a desktop computer. 
• View spectrograms for each track, search, and filter in the Airtable spreadsheet. 

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