When I was visiting lethargic_man in Newcastle about this time last year, we were walking in a park and heard a strange, high-pitched ringing sound. I was more or less convinced it was birdsong, but after we'd listened and watched for a while, we worked out that it was kids throwing chunks of ice at the frozen pond. The acoustics were seriously weird; lethargic_man reckoned that the sound transmitted through the air was interfering oddly with the sound transmitted through the ice and water beneath it.
I've never heard anything like that before, but this may well be because in this country, it's fairly rare for it to be cold enough for anything larger than a puddle to freeze over.
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Date: 2004-02-11 12:06 pm (UTC)When I was visiting
I've never heard anything like that before, but this may well be because in this country, it's fairly rare for it to be cold enough for anything larger than a puddle to freeze over.