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ice-breaking .wav

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CCCanary

March 12th, 2015

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Soundscapes > Synthetic / Artificial
Alaska, United States
Bird's Bop

we put mics down almost inside glaciers from a smallish boat and listened. This and the sounds following are field recordings from Glacier Bay, Alaska

When you hear the loud crashing, that's when the glacier is dropping tons of ice off itself and into the bay It's called calving

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Alaska
calving-is-breaking-ice
cold
glacier
ice-rubbing-against-ice
loud-crash-calving

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

1:52.519

File size

2.1 MB

Sample rate

10000.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Mono

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CMeeson

6 years, 9 months ago

CC Can you please check your messages I sent you a request, super appreciative or your response, thanks Cath 8767yy

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SolotOn

8 years ago

thank you for the great sound

CMeeson

9 years ago

<3 awesome field recordings I do hope you continue, I came looking for specifics and these have inspired me with new work ideas

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Bentuman

10 years, 4 months ago

Thanks, I used this sound in a theatre show with 19th century slides about the Arctic expeditions of that period. It worked great!

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CCCanary

10 years, 4 months ago

Dear sklawlor,

the last 37 seconds of which file?
I do think I've explained and over explained what the sounds are. A loud obnoxious sound for quite a while is the glacier breaking off pieces of itself. There are rubbing sounds which are two pieces of glacier rubbing up against each other. All those bubbling and gurgling sounds are deep in the the glacier being picked up by a mic on a cord.
I don't care if you process the sound. Have fun.

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