Arçon de Nièze & Senglar _ViLong

sound art for disquiet0679.

I have quite a few of my sound sculptures outside in my garden at the moment. Mostly to create space in my cramped studio, but also to let them get exposed to some weather. Letting nature in, to change them and the way they sound, collecting rain water and going rusty. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday the weather has been sub-zero in the mornings so the sculptures got frozen. I picked a few and took them into the studio to record.

The main body of the track is an idea from a sound installation I did in 2024 called The Trickle. It used an apparent running water sound that was created by playing coins embedded in wood with animal bones. This seemed to fit with the idea of the frozen landscape thawing as the sun came up.

I put some of the sculptures on top of a radiator to melt the ice a bit and then swirled the ice and rain water around inside a sculpture with a tin on it, like ice cubes in a drink.

The sculpture with golden flowers got played with animal bones, just like the coins.

All recorded with contact mics and no effects. A bit of EQing.

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/

golden flowers of the thawing dawn (disquiet0679)

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/

Ice Forms (disquiet0679)

Disquiet Junto Project 0679: Ice Age
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

With my Zoom H5 I recorded some Ice Cubes falling into and moving inside a salad bowl made of glass. I made a lot of efforts to get most out of the sound, for example I placed the bowl on a clotheshorse, so that it can swing more freely … but at the end I didn't use these sounds. I applied a lot of diverse stretching and reverb to get some pads and made a Pigments granular patch with some sounds I liked most. What I had planned didn't work and I made a lot of unusable detours. Now it's mostly an improvisation over some kind of instable repetitive structure, and I like it. All sound is based on the ice cube glass recordings; you may assume there are water noises, but it's really (stretched) ice, maybe sometimes with some surrounding meltwater.

The recordings can be found on my Freesound page
https://freesound.org/search/?q=krakenkraft&f=&s=Date+added+%28newest+first%29

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/
Discussion: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0679-ice-age/70238

ICEDESCENCE [disquiet0679]

I used the same recording I made in 2013. Multiple edited copies were stretched, pitch-changed, put through different types of reverb, reversed, cut-up and re-edited, all using Audacity effects and plugins. The Vocoder and Phaser got a look in too. 

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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 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/


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

Glaciator [disquiet0679]

Piano sample: First and last notes from ‘Listen, Mayakowski’ by Axel Schmidt aka VOIDE
Released on the album ‘Milkwood’, less records, 2024
https://voide1.bandcamp.com/album/milkwood


sisyphos

An ice cube dropped into a glass - that is the starting point. Aside from the melancholic drone via a CS-80 emulation, all the sounds are derived from the original sample, with the processing being done via Arturia's Fragments and Motions plug ins. 

disquiet0679

[disquiet0679] icy fates

250105 - Sight Seeing on the Other Side

Day 31! Another year of Jamuaries! Thank you to everyone who has listened or commented, and thank you to all my fellow Jamuarians for all the inspiration. This is one of my favourite times of the year, and the main aspect which I love is the community that we foster. 

This song is about endings, but the message is a positive one: our journey will end, but tomorrow is always another day, and in the grand scheme, it is just as meaningful as any other day. 

I wander home,
I will wonder where you go, 
I want for home,

There's so much to be done,
But you can, you can
Remember when we watched the sun,
And it glows, oh it still glows,

So much I'd like to show you,
All our time has passed,
And I feel like I owe you,
I don't know what you'd ask,
And all the things left behind, it's okay,
And so the lights fade on another day,
There's no place we can stay forever,
We can learn that things don't stay the same.

Jamuary 31st 2025 The Sun Sets to Rise on Another Day

2025-03-31

space dust

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

Ice Forms (disquiet0679)

undermulden