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Disquiet Junto Project 0471: Phase Transition

"Boxes" is my tenth yearly Disquiet Junto recording of ice in a glass and making something of it.

This year, I used some ice from my driveway in a small glass.  The rattling was recorded by my old Zoom H2, run through my new Empress Echosystem on some setting, and then sent over to my Empress Reverb for further processing, and out to my Tascam DR-05.

I was rattling it in one hand and "live tweaking" settings with the other.  I don't know what selections I was using on either box for this recording.  I made quite a few short variations, but I liked this one the most as it starts out super muted and ends with a recognizable sound.

The Empress boxes are outstanding.  I've had the Reverb for a little over two years and can't imagine making sounds without it.  I'll never sell it.  I got the Echosystem recently, and the two together are something else.  

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:  https://disquiet.com/0471/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:  https://disquiet.com/junto/

Boxes (disquiet0471)

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0471/

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Image associated with this project is by Caroline, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/HQLpR 1

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Phase Transition (disquiet0471)

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0471/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Orange Man Circles The Drain (disquiet0471)

This is made from snippets of a one minute sample of ice in a glass. Though some effects are applied all sounds are included as sampled (with minor EQ in mix) and represent the original material fairly faithfully. The result is purely rhythmic and textural rather than containing any melody or harmony.
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More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

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https://disquiet.com/junto/

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My submission for
Disquiet Junto Project 0471: Phase Transition
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

Darling (disquiet0471)

flashing stamen

halF assignmenT [disquiet0471]

for Disquiet Junto Project 0471: Phase Transition
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

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

Process: First I was amazed that the first Disquiet Junto project should be already 9 years ago! :O feels like, maybe 3 years.

I still got the recordings of the very first ice cube in a glass project in a folder, however I decided to record new samples, employing stereo microphones and a contact microphone. For the glass I used a large pharmacy flask. This leads to different source recordings but also I decided to use the ice-glass recordings only, created an interesting rhythmic loop and decorated it with stretched and otherwise manipulated sample snippets from the recordings. enjoy & happy new year!

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Jog on new ice [disquiet0471]

Written as part of my first Disquiet Junto project

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Crushed Ice (disquiet0471)

disquiet0471 ice tune

Live multiple channel recordings without additions or enhancements.

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

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Image associated with this project is by Caroline, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Ice To Water (disquiet0471)

Made as part of the disquiet 0471 - making a piece out of just samples of ice cubes which I recorded 2 years ago in Amsterdam. I don't know what those ice cubes are up to these days, I suspect they gave up and melted.

Patch notes: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/40183/27?u=mdh

Phase Transition - Disquiet0471

Made for Disquiet Junto Project 0471: Phase Transition
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

That Ice Cube Beat [disquiet0471]

This track was produced by taking a recording of ice in a glass and repeating it at different speeds in Audacity. 

Based on the following prompt from the Disquiet Junto:

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

More about Disquiet Junto 471: https://disquiet.com/2021/01/07/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/

Ice Chimes (disquiet0471)

made for Disquiet0471 - Phase Transition.
Made using a recording of ice cubes in a small glass of water captured by my Zoom H4n. This was played back in a number of ways, many using Vital.
Then I recorded some spoken word to build the atmosphere a little more. The lyrics are intentionally unclear so I won't list them here.

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Twigs

On a Frozen Lake

disquiet0471 - On A Frozen Lake

Another January evening, another recording of ice rattling in glasses [i made Al a Gin & Tonic this year, v. pro social].

From the second year on, i've been trying to make these in some sort of conversation with each other, even as i try to make a point of heightening their differences; last year's was an extended, highly processed drone so this this years should be cleaner, more percussive...

with that in mind, i chopped small sections out of the recording of the ice cubes [& bevarage] and set them to rattle away in a more or less randomised pattern at 108bpm. I tried to chip away at it, make sure ithad some sort of swing but it wasn't obviously repetative, you know? Once i had a framework i liked, I processed it further in audiomulch - making a couple grittier/degraded versions and putting it through a ludicrous disteneded granualtion thing i've been working with for something else.

With four versions rendered i then set about chopping them about, making them kind of fit together as an inconsistently consistent ~beat. & here we are.

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More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

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https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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https://flic.kr/p/HQLpR 1

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ixcsr [disquiet0471]

Auditory Passage - disquiet0471

I recorded this track with a square glass vase and two Geofóns suction cupped onto it, and also the X/Y mic that came with the Zoom H6. I cut the resulting LR sounds from the Zoom mic into a lot of varying pieces and made some bass booms from the Geofón ice hits.

The results are assembled on a 4/4 120 bpm tempo grid in Pro Tools. I added some Valhalla Delay, here and there and a bit of Adaptiverb on the outro. Fabfilter Pro-Q 3 and Pro-C 2 on mastering duties.

I almost never do anything rhythmic, so this is kind of a first attempt at creating a fun beat, while featuring some of the typical ice in glass sounds I captured. Also the first time I've used the Geofóns. The cable handling noise is big, so moving the glass vase was not good on those mics, but helped get some nice movement on the X/Y mic.

Ice Drum Circle disquiet0471

Every element in this song is made from three samples of ice cubes in a glass that I recorded on my phone. I put the samples in Ableton and with Simpler and sound design editing (Effects, panning, sample manipulation etc.) I created around 10 drum elements and 3 melodic elements from these samples. Plus I spread the raw samples into the track, with very light pan editing. I put the rhythms down quite quickly, because I wanted to make this track as fast as possible. Hope you enjoy!

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

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(Ice)Cream #disquiet0471

[disquiet0471] Tides Of Winter

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.