The material for this piece was made by shaking and swirling a glass of ice under an SM-57 while manipulating pitch-shifter and delay pedals (the latter set to a reverse-echo mode). I gradually ramped up the pedal modulation as I went and alternated between perturbing the ice more and less harshly, at one point adding some boiling water to the glass to produce some new sounds. I loaded the recording into Ableton’s Simpler instrument in order to arrange the more interesting snippets and to play with a contrast between the physical rhythm of moving the ice versus the imposed rhythm of retriggered samples.
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