Fuggin' love Lovecraft, and this story is one of my favourites

beautiful sinister atmosphere, real thriller soundtrack

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

Welcome to a new year of Disquiet Junto communal music projects. This week’s project is as follows. It’s the same project we’ve begun each year with since the very first Junto project, way back in January 2012. The project is, per tradition, just this one step:

Step 1: Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.

Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment — “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it” — as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series back on the first Thursday of January 2012. Revisiting it at the start of each January ever since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. By now, it qualifies as a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a regular if not weekly habit. It can be beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.

Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0679

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age

Keep The Faith

This summer I camped next to a tranquil lake set deep in woodland. 

The guitar is my Takamine Acoustic. I played it through my PC and used Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 for the effects. Bit of an experiment, really. I'm impressed with Guitar Rig and would use it more, but my computer struggles to use it alongside Cubase!

Raindrops on a moonlit pond

Oblivion

So happy to make music again and share it on soundcloud, after my lung surgery and I can still play wind instruments, like here on this new track, xaphoon.

Luna On The Horizon Blade

Marco Lucchi - harmonic cello 

playing with
https://soundcloud.com/paul-beaudoin/a-dwelling-place-for-2-manual

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"Voll verdienst, doch dichterisch, wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde"

F. Hoelderlin

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4 dicembre 2024

Dichterisch

This track makes use of sounds 'stolen' from an upcoming Paintbrush ASMR YouTube video ... Enjoy! ☺️

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/ ... As is often the case, please forgive my slightly loose interpretation of the brief ...!

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Paul Amlehn - Libretto, re-definition of the verb "to sing," quantum vocal performance, electronic vocal augmentation, composition, editing, mixing, production
Sonya Petrov - Voice
Emma Smith - Voice
Isabella Conti - Voice
Charlotte Abbot - Voice
Louise Bourgeois - "Pregnant Woman" gouache and colored pencil on paper

Libretto:

"I'm swimming in the window.
God, let her in.
I'm swimming in the widow.
God, let me come in
To this flesh
System
Upside down.

Women 
Are the only 
Way in.

I'm scared, maman.
I'm so scared.

I'm swimming in you.

Listen now."

I'm Swimming In You

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/

Disquiet Junto  | Ice Age - disquiet0679

Lupo Ice Prophet Disquiet0679

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto Assignment.

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/

250102 [disquiet0679]

13th year of Disquiet Ice.  For 2025, I used the ice recording for #53 back in 2013.  I put 6 of them in Samplr on the iPad with various settings and coordinates.  Ran it through my effects rig:  "Green Tape" on the Echosystem, "Green Ghost" on the Empress Reverb, and either Mosaic or Tunnel on the Microcosm.  I can't remember.  Join my mailing list at https://www.markrushton.com

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/

Frozen Effervescence (disquiet0679)

A response to Disquiet Junto prompt 0679, which was an invitation to record a glass with an ice cube and make something of it. 

I had several competing ideas for this week's response, but nothing that jumped out as The Idea. So I decided to start with the ice. I submerged a waterproof contact mic in about an inch of water in a drinking glass, then recorded the fall of ice cubes from a dispenser into the glass. I made multiple recordings to avoid having to loop samples in the piece. 

I noticed that due to the the ice machine's inner workings, the fall of the cubes from the dispenser felt like the cadence of walking through heavy snow and ice— then the idea was born. 

For those who are not Lovecraft fans, "At the Mountains of Madness" tells the story of Antarctic explorers who uncover the remains of an ancient alien civilization— with some horrifying remnants left behind. This became the inspiration. I built the song in multiple acts, following the intrepid seekers as they explore the ruins rising from the snow and ice, ending in a frantic and deadly encounter, and finally silence-- save for the howling wind and the strange, unearthly whistles and pipings echoing amongst the icy peaks.

Features synthesizers, synthetic instruments, ice samples, and field recordings from a shortwave radio. The blowing wind sample is from the BBC sound archive. Cover photo courtesy of NASA.

More on the 679th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Ice Age — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0679/

At the Mountains of Madness (disquiet0679)

Death Dream

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure.

DARK AMBIENT - TITANOTHERIDAE

Vacuum

Man, yo, man. YO, man. Man yo. Yo yo. Why's it always gotta be 12, man...

Whom 2

I create original electronic, postpunk, and experiential music from my studio in Chicago. The Hard Times described my work as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting." Prolific.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

At the Mountains of Madness (disquiet0679)

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