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