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

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

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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 collage of recordings of melting ice. 

Recorded with a DIY hydrophone, through a Triton Audio BigAmp Piezo preamp, with a Tascam DR-100 MKIII digital recorder.



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Aquarian Audio H2D hydrophone on the shower cabin floor.  

Recorded with a Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp and Tascam DR-100 MK3 recorder.

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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.

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