I started by asking the kids to select "five super tiny sounds". I resisted giving them any further instruction. They came up with: 

1) foaming hand-soap dispenser
2) water drip
3) pillow fluff
4) knitting needles
5) page turning.

This was surprisingly hard! The injunction not to modify the five sounds, and work only with rhythm made me really work. And constraining myself to the five sounds the kids came up with (even if not strictly "pin prick" sized) compounded the problem, as they didn't naturally form a cohesive set of sounds.

I opted to focus on "super tiny" in the rhythm: It grows just one note every two measures, starting from five notes, one per sound. It also accelerates by a tiny amount through to the end. I also decided that adjusting the volume per note was acceptable (but no amplitude modulation or envelope, save click reduction). I had to work from both ends: Composing the final rhythm, then reducing to just five notes for the start, and then mostly working backwards from the final point.

Composed in Ableton Live... no processing on the sounds or mix.

Concrète Clave (Disquiet 0215 - Tiny Rhythms)

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Concrète Clave (Disquiet 0215 - Tiny Rhythms)

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