This isn't today's post - just a link to a photo that I came across online. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts invited Martin Parr to take photos of winter in Minnesota and this was one of the images he made. Click on it to enlarge it.
http://www2.artsmia.org/blogs/new-pictures/2012/04/13/new-pictures-6-martin-parr-opening-soon/usa-minnesota-minneapolis-winter-games-ice-fishing-2012/
I have a soft spot for Minnesota, having spent six weeks there in summer 2009. Never been there in winter, though.
He looks like a hunter.
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to hijack your title and show everyone this. Andreas Bick uses hydrophones to capture underwater sounds. The first link is to a recording of ice breaking and it sounds like Star Wars blasters. What I like about this is that he is fishing for sound and the sound of the thin ice sheets breaking and reverberating (this physical vibrating is obviously quite common in solids) is familiar to us because of a successful sci-fi movie series. The sound guy for Star Wars, Ben Burtt, made the blaster sound by whacking an antenna guy wire with a wrench and amplifying it. For me the hydrophone being suspended in the water is part of what we discussed with guys from the fishing group about what you think is going on underwater and what actually is. Though because the underwater world is so alien to us, employing one of our five senses to understand it creates strange sounds. I am thinking more here of the last link to the sound of algae in a lake and what it sounds like to dive to the bottom of the swimming pool and hear sounds from above the water.
ReplyDeletehttp://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/dispersion-of-sound-waves-in-ice-sheets/
http://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/sounds-like-star-wars-blasters/
http://filmsound.org/starwars/#burtt
http://silentlistening.wordpress.com/category/field-recordings/