As you might have noticed I haven’t updated the blog for a while as I’ve been busy lately working on a couple of projects leaving almost no time to go out sound hunting.
Anyway, here’s a sign of the oncoming spring; a drifting ice floe down at the marina in Limhamn recorded underwater with a hydrophone.
The thumping sounds you hear comes from the floe slowly nudging against a boulder in the breakwater.
Geek note: Aquarian H2a-XLR -> Sony PCM-D50 (using a XLR->3,5mm adapter)
Starting out tomorrow I’m going for a short hike in Blekinge over the weekend, hopefully this will give me the opportunity to get some nature recordings for a sound installation I’m working on as well as some stuff to post here.
Hey – you’ve got some cool sounds in this clip. The “thump” of the ice almost sounds like a burst of gas.
I’m looking forward to hearing new sounds from your hiking trip.
[...] Our final Found Sound of the week is a bit slower-paced, but still an incredible underwater ice recording from yesterday’s SoundClouder of the Day, inovember. It’s recorded with a hydrophone, and captures the unusual sound of thawing ice nudging against a boulder. Fascinating stuff, and you can get a lot more information in his blog post on the recording. [...]