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Arctic Ice Field

Cold wind across a desolate ice field, with distant booming fractures and crystalline stress creaks.

kind
texture
length
15 s
downloads
1
id
K4CRK9GA21

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Arctic Ice Field”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Arctic Ice Field”, default preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get K4CRK9GA21@1 -o arctic-ice-field.wav

How it's made

Source
turbulent air over bare ice; independent pink and white noise form a wide, leafless wind bed.
Body
ice-sheet flexure rings at 48-240 Hz in inharmonic modes with 0.5-3 s decays; distant fractures combine a softened 12 ms onset, a spreading noise tail and delayed, darker structural arrivals.
Envelope
wind breathes over 5-30 s and brightens with gusts; major cracks recur at irregular 5-15 s intervals, with 1.8-3.8 s tails. No cavern reverb: the low tails belong to the ice itself.
Events
stick-slip ice creaks last 0.4-1.6 s, with curved 480-2200 Hz bands and weaker upper bands; their smooth attacks and low-pass filtering avoid glass-shatter clicks and piercing pure tones.
Variation
seeded timing, strength, modal detuning, glide direction and pan vary independently. Wind controls air pressure, fractures control crack rate and weight, creaks control surface activity, and thickness lowers and lengthens plate modes. Presets span stillness, pressure, gale and thin ice.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
wind0 – 10.5—Wind exposure
fractures0 – 10.5—Fracture activity
creaks0 – 10.45—Crystal creaks
thickness0 – 10.7—Ice thickness
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('K4CRK9GA21@1')

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