I took my discarded attempt from the last Disquiet prompt and was able to make something out of it, so this is very much about starting and finishing things.
I recorded myself dropping an ice cube into a glass and sliced it up. I noticed every iteration of the ice-cube drop had certain repeating “gestures:” a big inhale from me, the squeaking of the ice-cube tray as I loosened the pieces, and then the inevitable clink in the glass.
For the first iteration of about 30 seconds, I rearranged the audio to be a sort of loose cannon - the first ice-cube drop is layered with the second ice-cube drop, layered so that the clinks happen at the same time, but the other, non-intentional sounds (the breathing, the squeaking) will happen at different times.
The second iteration, each entrance of the clink is repeated until all four are playing simultaneously. I also added a loop underneath it that feels like a beat (but is actually looped ice-cube sounds). A drumkit version of that loop also begins to sneak in here.
The third iteration is like the second, except the drumkit is much more prominent.
That took about 1 minute and 30 seconds, which wasn’t long enough, so I copied and pasted everything (repetition is the artist’s friend!). However, this time the drumkit slowly fades out, so in that sense the piece may feel like a palindrome.
Then I panned it hard left, as per the instructions.
