I can hear some nice echoes of Tangerine Dream around, is it possible?

I really like how you have instilled an ice like fragility into your mix. Nice one!

Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice
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.

Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice

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.

More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

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-0575-on-ice/

Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice

I always look forward to the beginning of the year when this project comes around.  This year I used this piece as a study for a much larger work - specifically using it as a way to experiment with a complex scripting language I have built on top of the RTcmix (www.rtcmix.org) scripting language, MinC.
My scripts allow me to create algorithmic musical patterns in a large number of dimensions:  volume, pitch, sample selection, tempo, placement in a simulated room-space etc.  Each dimension can be moved about in via an algorithmic plug-in, for example, random choice, sequential access, fixed value, etc.
The Psychedelic Ice Machine uses three sets of ice sound samples I have recorded over the years.  The score loops, creating an ever-changing set of patterns.  The relationship between these is sometimes clear and sometimes obscured.

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More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

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The Psychedelic Ice Machine

The Psychedelic Ice Machine [disquiet0575]

I always do the "ice" junto,  This is my 12th.

Cold Facts was made from ice recordings loaded into the iOS program Samplr with various pitch and loop options selected, and then run through my boxes.  

This year's boxes are the Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork+ (set on 1 to 2), an Empress Echosystem (green Tape with various knob settings), and an Empress Reverb (green Ghost with various knob settings).  That's my rig.  Everything fits perfectly in a laptop bag.

Find out more about me at https://www.markrushton.com

I'm a 100% independent recording artist who has been publishing original music in the ambient, electronic, and avant-garde genres, as well as environmental field recordings.  

I have over 2800 recordings distributed worldwide under more than 20 band names and pseudonyms, including my own name.  Member of ASCAP since 2002.  I've produced and hosted the Ambient Rushton Podcast since 2004.  Songtrust is my worldwide administrator for mechanical and publishing royalty collection.  Airtable manages my catalog.  I use DISCO.AC for sync library and licensing submissions.

Making music should be fun.  That's why I keep doing it.

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More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

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

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Cold Facts (disquiet 0575)

Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice
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.

Track notes:

Happy new year all! 

For this year's ice challenge, I put about ten ice cubes in a large  wine glass and filled it with water. I placed an Aquarian hydrophone into it and routed it into my little modular skiff, using an ohcd LFO,  DLD(stereo delay) and Morphagene module.

Recently I'd been playing around with Karpus-Strong delay effects on the DLD, which is in essence 'resonance feedback', which is useful for generating plucked string sort of sounds from an incoming signal.

One of the things I like about experimenting with resonance feedback is how very transient and discrete sounds can become powerful (and unpredictable) impulses when used in conjunction with the effect.

With an ultra-short delay and high feedback threshold set on the stereo delay module, I rattled the ice in the glass and recorded the very end of the tail of the rattle to the Morphagene and used a couple of LFOs to control the CV of the sample's grain and morphology. 

Because the sample captures the tail-end of the rattle, there's only a little movement interspersed with very discrete crackles, squeaks and pops.  

For recording this track, the dry/wet of the Morphagene was set to 50/50 so that the ongoing 'quiet' action within the glass is heard in conjunction with the granulated sample. At a couple of points, this develops dramatically, with some incidental ice movement, followed by a large crack. The final part involved me turning the Morphagene mix to 100% wet and attempting to break the sample apart, so that only vague traces of the original sample recording can be heard.

[Disquiet_Junto_0575] Ice Murmur

This is my submission to Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
It is also my recording for the 5th day of Jamuary.

I recorded the ice cube using my recently purchased Zoom H1n recorder. In Ableton Live, I turned the recording into a drum kit using the Slice to New MIDI Track function (splitting up the recording into equal segments instead of splitting at the transients).

Meanwhile, I took a MIDI file I had made earlier(a recording of a folk song I had written 11 years ago that was fed into the WIDI Audio to MIDI plugin), doubled its tempo and used the Canonize function in XX to create a second track that duplicates the original but with a delayed start and a higher MIDI pitch.

Finally, I placed the two MIDI tracks in Ableton Live, one panned left and one panned right, both playing the ice cube drum kit. I duplicated each of these tracks and applied Dieter Zobels Resovative IV Reaktor ensemble, a resonator effect that creates the strumming sound. Ableton's reverb was applied to everything.

More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project – On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0575-on-ice/

Jamuary is an annual challenge in which participants aim to make music every day in January, posting the results online. For more information, go to jamuary.org/

Glacial Strum [disquiet0575]

Enhanced recorded sounds of ice cubes in a glass, edited with Audacity.

More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project – On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Metallic Ice (disquiet0575)

This is the track I made for the Disquiet Junto Challenge themed 'On Ice' - the sound of ice in a glass and making something with it...

IDEA
I started with stretching, pitching, auto tuning, reversing and reverb-ing (shimmer!) the hell out of the 'icy' recordings. Letting the famous PaulX-stretch plugin work its magic it gave me a surprisingly decent pad sound. I decided to improvise some parts over it, and that was pretty much it. In terms of mood, I tried not to think too much of Vangelis' Antarctica, so I chose something more uptempo.

COMPO
I started with Dminor7 and tried some chord combinations. I'm not exactly sure which mode of Dm I was actually playing, but I wanted it not to sound 'too sweet'. Since the disquit is kind of a playground for ideas and techniques, I didn't mind using some weird echo-y stuff as the basis for the percussive part, topped off with an 808 kick, snare and crash.

GEAR
DAW: Samplitude X3
VST: Arturia Jupiter-8 + Mellotron, NI Kontakt instrument, PaulXstretch, stock plugins
HARDWARE: Arturia The Laboratory, Icon AIO6

IMAGE
I used a stockphoto that I edited for the cover image.

2023

Icy World [disquiet0575]

My contribution to Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice.

A recording of an ice cube tipped between a glass and vase spliced and arranged in Ableton Live.

More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project – On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

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-0575-on-ice/

disquiet0575 On Ice

electric bass
fender rhodes
wahwah guitar
clavinet
drum program

February Rabbit's Groove (disquiet0578)

An electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Whispered Turmoil (naviarhaiku493)

day dragging on

naviarhaiku497 – The gate shuts
The gate shuts
with a loud groan
The temple sleeps

(Tr. Alex Fyffe)

Hōsai graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied law. He got off to a good start but decided to give up his home, family, and business to jump from one militant religion of Japan to the other.

Just like Taneda Santoka, Hōsai abandoned the traditional verse form of his time and mostly looked at the austere confines of his life for inspiration.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

 

Deadline: 19th July 2023

Haiku by Hosai Ozaki https://allpoetry.com/Hosai-Ozaki

Picture by Julia Karl https://unsplash.com/photos/DzPZD5atXPc

The Gate Shuts/ The Temple Sleeps (naviarhaiku497)

2023-11-23

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In Leisurely Ways

Circuits of the Soul 417 Hz. [Dark Nature Concept]

Another Day in Paradise
   •   Artista: Phil Collins
   •   Álbum: …But Seriously (1989)
   •   Género: Soft rock / Pop rock
   •   Duración: 4:48 (versión álbum)
   •   Productores: Phil Collins y Hugh Padgham
   •   Instrumentación destacada: sintetizadores atmosféricos, caja de ritmos, guitarra de David Crosby en coros.
   •   Premios: Ganó el Grammy a Grabación del Año (1991) y un MTV Video Music Award por Mejor Video de un Artista Masculino.

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📜 Contexto Histórico
   •   Lanzada en octubre de 1989, fue el último gran éxito de la década de los 80 en alcanzar el nº 1 en el Billboard Hot 100 (diciembre 1989 – enero 1990).
   •   Se mantuvo 4 semanas en el nº 1 en EE.UU. y lideró rankings en múltiples países (Reino Unido, Alemania, Canadá).
   •   Fue el primer sencillo del álbum …But Seriously, que marcó un giro más serio en la carrera de Collins, alejándose del pop ligero hacia temáticas sociales.
   •   El videoclip, dirigido por Jim Yukich, mostraba imágenes urbanas con escenas de personas en situación de calle, reforzando el mensaje social.

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🧑‍🎤 Biografía y Significado

Phil Collins (n. 1951, Londres), ya famoso como baterista y cantante de Genesis y como solista en los 80, compuso esta canción inspirado por la creciente crisis de personas sin hogar en Londres y EE.UU. en los años 80.

El tema describe a un hombre que, al ver a una mujer pidiendo ayuda en la calle, elige ignorarla y seguir su camino. El mensaje central es la indiferencia social hacia los más vulnerables:
   •   “Es solo otro día en el paraíso” es una ironía amarga, denunciando cómo se normaliza la desigualdad.
   •   Fue la primera canción de Collins en abordar de forma tan explícita un problema social.

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🌍 Impacto y Legado
   •   Se convirtió en una de las canciones más reconocibles de Phil Collins y un himno de conciencia social en la música pop.
   •   Fue versionada por varios artistas, entre ellos Brandy y Ray J (2001), cuya interpretación también alcanzó gran popularidad.
   •   Hoy sigue siendo considerada una de las canciones más importantes en el repertorio de Collins, y suele abrir debates sobre el papel de la música pop en la crítica social.

Phil Collins logra con una letra simple y repetitiva transmitir una idea demoledora: la indiferencia es tan violenta como la pobreza misma. La canción no busca contar una historia extensa, sino retratar un instante que expone un problema universal.

Another day in paradise

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.

treast is instrumental atmospheric electronica, featuring synths, guitars and bass, virtual instruments, sounds and noises. No loops or samples.

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