General video · Level B2 - Part 1

Did you know that ice can sing

Have you ever heard this sound before? It's my absolute favorite sound.

Level: B2 · 27 sentences

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  1. Have you ever heard this sound before?
  2. It's my absolute favorite sound.
  3. And it's been fascinating me for many years now.
  4. But I had never heard about it before until I moved to this remote place by the lake.
  5. I didn't know that the ice can create the most magical and otherworldly sounds.
  6. It excites my spirit.
  7. And during the last years, I have spent many winter nights by the lake
  8. Listening and recording the sounds of the singing ice.
  9. These sounds can best be heard in the beginning of the winter
  10. just as the lake has frozen to ice.
  11. As the surface of the ice gets thicker
  12. it creates a strong tension in the ice until it cracks.
  13. And as the cracks move fast over the ice,
  14. it creates these strong vibrations and sounds that can be heard many miles away.
  15. The sounds of the ice is different every winter
  16. depending on how fast the ice grows and how much snow is covering the surface.
  17. The colder, the louder sounds.
  18. Being out on the ice when it sings the most is a very special experience.
  19. If the ice cracks close to you,
  20. you can feel like a wall of vibration from the sounds, almost knocking you down.
  21. It's very powerful.
  22. And I have to admit that it feels a bit spooky to walk down to the ice in the nights
  23. changing batteries in my sound recorder while being surrounded by these loud, strange sounds.
  24. It's like the sound of an ancient spirit awakening under the ice, roaring out in the night.
  25. And, the ice does not only makes this magical music,
  26. it also creates a masterpiece on the ice.
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