This is a personal review of the year 2021 - consisting of twelve short musical sections, one per month. The sections were each cut from a RabMusicLab track released in the corresponding month. The tracks were chosen upon their personal or musical importance.

The picture is intended to show a symbol for the passage of time:
It is inspired by the "chronopteric birds" featured in the series of graphic novels "Azimut" by Wilfrid Lupano and Jean-Baptiste Andreae. According to the publisher this is an "incredible Terry Gilliam-esque fantasy tale" and has Time as one of its main subjects.
The photograph shows one of the metal water-spouting birds in the garden of Schwetzingen palace which remind me of these time-related animals in the graphic novel.

The list of tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/machinery
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/le-brouillard-du-desespoir
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/evening-contemplation
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/strange-weather
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/lost-and-found-feat-yaccn
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/pre-set-in-the-bay-of-plenty
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/the-devils-harp-of-glass
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/wilde-rosmarie
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/three-fifths-remain
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/vatn-is-vatn
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/bedtime-for-musical-bots
https://soundcloud.com/rabmusiclab/between-waves-and-stars

This track is following the Disquiet Junto Project 0522.

More on this 522nd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Just Backdated (The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments) – at: https://disquiet.com/0522/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0522-just-backdated/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Sonic Diary 2021 (Disquiet0522)

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

Ice Warp (disquiet0523)

My second time doing the ice cubes junto.
Never been happy with the first one, hope this one grows on me.
I used:
-the previous junto0262 plastic ice cubes recording
-some new real ice cubes on wine glasses with pitch shifted delay
-crystal bowls hit with soft mallets (from Soniccouture’s Glassworks
-an Albion Steamband brass pad
-original wav samples by Chris Watson from a bank called “Water & Ice”, samples evocatively called “Under The Ice, “Glass Low” and Ice Shards”

Created at home on the rainy cold morning of Friday January 7th 2022.

Photo by Susan Wilkinson

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@disquiet

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

this has happened before and will happen again
Ecclesiastes 1:9

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again (disquiet0523)

The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

10th Anniversary Diquiet Junto project. Congrats Marc! :)

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

Rattles & Melt (disquiet0523)

Mix of live recordings.

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/ 2

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

Ice Flow (disquiet0523)

My entry to Disquiet Junto Project 0523: Chill Communication.

More information at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/51567

Blurb about my entry at https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/51567/15

disquiet0523 Cuboid

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/

ice disquiet0523

My first foray into Disquietude.

Made using a Digitakt and Microfreak. 

With the exception of the pad sound, everything is arranged on the Digitakt using samples of ice in a cup (or a blender). I loved the bell-like quality of the glass when pitched way down, and built the track around that.

Disquiet0523 iceage

another gloomy January weekend brightened by faffing with the sounds of ice cubes; ten, this year, 'cause, i mean, how could i not? 

i re-listened to previous years submissions, partially to get my head in the game somewhat, partly to try and find aspects i hadn't concentrated on in the sound source. I've been guilty of using ancillary sounds a lot in the past i think - the clunk of the ice hitting the glass or the glass hitting the counter; the tear of the cube being taken from the tray - and figured i ought to be a little more circumspect this year, so made a point of only selecting the clinks and rattles of the cubes suspended in the drink [water] for this year.

I cut 30, small, percussive sections of clinking & set them away in a pattern in FruityLoops, a sort of gritty pulse punctuated with some lightly distorted samples and some pitched up or down a little. I mixed in a little assertive chatter made in Leafcutter John's Forestry and then made a couple of versions - one pitched down dramatically and one reversed and one as it was which i then chopped into something like a structure. I then made two copies of that file, played one forward, the other back & applied differing filters to both to try and bring out the... jittery cubist xylophone shambles of the whole thing.

Thanks again - always! - for the prompt, Marc! ^_^

XCSR [disquiet0523]

[disquiet0523] Yermak

Made from samples of ice in a glass for the Disquiet Junto Project no 0523
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0523-chill-communication/51567

Communication Chill-Down [disquiet0523]

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Ice Flow (disquiet0523)

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