Created for the Junto [disquiet0003-glass] project. I wanted to get as much texture as I could out of the glasses themselves and use delays to build those textures up.

(s)Warm [disquiet0003-glass]

This field recording was made from the window of my apartment here on the south side of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. I live across the street from an elementary school and as soon as the weather gets remotely warm enough, the ice cream trucks come circling for their prey. When they touch down they like to idle beneath my windows assaulting me with their air and noise pollution. It's not uncommon for them to block the street when they stop, resulting in a line of furiously honking cars trapped behind them.

My aim here was to capture the feeling of being trapped in my hot, stuffy apartment amid this maddening, cacophonous hell. (I think I might've strayed from the 'light touch' strategy a bit.)

Accompanying the field recording are my first acoustic guitar (with broken tuning peg which holds tension, but can't be tuned upward), a few synths, a little reverb, and a tiny chunk of additional ice-cream-truck-field-recording layered in at the end.

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