#34

Rhythmic loops created in MAX/MSP built to "auto"generate loops from samples fed to it. In this case the sounds of ice in the glass. Additional percussion added as needed, but I did try to minimize the use sounds not directly captured during recording the ice.

I had Masaru Emoto’s research into audio effects on ice creation and really wanted to add a few samples of him speaking about the experiments, but couldn’t find what I was looking for.

Really fun project.

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#35

omg. the first weekend in January 2019; i know it was in some sense inevitable but equally, somehow, i never quite expected it - my relationship with time is… i dunno… both somehow arrested and faintly delirious, i guess. & yet in spite of - maybe beacuse of? - this i keep fiddling with sounds…

To the matter in hand: I got three glasses (an old Nutella jar, a larger tumbler sort of thing and a ahem liberated pint glass) out and filled one with water, the others with ice cubes and proceeded to record my faffing - pouring, shaking - for three and half minutes or so.

Before actually doing anything with the new sounds i - kinda self-indulgently - relistened to the previous six submissions i’ve made for this annual project; guess it’s a body of work at this point, huh? (!) Most years i’ve been trying to hold previous submissions in mind, either as inspirations or as, uh, anti-inspirations; something to respond to, anyhow. As i’ve been using so many effects in the past few years I felt i ought to make a point of using as few as possible this time; in the end beyond some compression and eq-ing i’ve used nothing. In addition, i made a point of not pitching samples up or down though i did allow myself to reverse playback a number of times for various sections and samples. So yeah, instead of processing the sound much, i’ve simply made an awkward cut and paste abstraction, with a bias towards reasonably seamless loops interspersed with sharp and definite splices. Some of the loops are tiny, in order to create buzzes and ersatz sines, others work more conventionally, if scarcely in any sense musically. I had this temptation to keep refining, condensing this piece - to a sort of seething, over-eventful, brittle mush but also wanted it to breathe or at least stop and start, pulse and jitter… this is, i guess, a sort of compromise between those two inclinations.

A really soothing afternoon in all; clicking about in various Audacity projects, shuffling, fiddling, reviewing… gonna head off and watch Tokyo Story now, something that’s not quite not a New Year tradition 'round these parts. Thanks again, always, to Marc & peace to all Junto folks. &, it occurs to me now, thanks to Kirk, who gave me the ice cube mold i’ve been using for at least five of these projects now.

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#36

Happy new year everyone!

This marks almost exactly one year since I joined the Junto! \o/

I also didn’t read the instructions carefully enough and recorded ice melting in a glass :smiley:

I recorded the initial field recording using a hydrophone into a glass of frozen water and pouring a bit of warm water to hasten the process. Then I processed the tracks using a combination of Adobe Audition and Ableton, layering nine tracks in total.

Lots of my processes also involve playing with time and asynchronicity, so I’ve layered the tracks in a way that it sounds more like multiple waves hitting and bumping into each other - sometimes lining up, sometimes not. I also wanted to explore the various intricacies of ‘melting’ and the richness of small, intimate ecosystems and moments - in this case, half a glass of frozen water and stretched-out field recordings.

Layer 1: Grinding ice, slowed 800%.
Layer 2: Grinding ice, slowed 1600% panned left + bass extender
Layer 3: Grinding ice, slowed 1600% panned right + bass extender
Layer 4: Air bubbles, with Around The Head panning effect
Layer 5: Air bubbles, with Brooklyn resonator + Minor Third Down delay + Around The Head panning effect
Layer 6: Air bubbles, with Great Buddha phaser effect + Replika delay
Layer 7: Air bubbles, with Rush delay + Space Syncopations frequency shifter + Wanderer filter delay
Layer 8: Air bubbles. with DTMF frequency shifter + Slow Churn phaser + Wanderer filter delay
Layer 9: Air bubbles, pitch-shifted + Frozen build-up reverb and bass extender.

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#37

Always look forward to this one…

Fortress of Solitude [disquiet0366]

Took some clinks of varying pitches out of the recording I made in 2013 and arranged into a “melody” of a few seconds. This was duplicated many times, at different pitches, and became a 1 minute ambient track. This in turn was multiplied, with some tracks being reversed, pitched down and given slight reverb. The resulting track was then treated in both The Mangle and ambient software and the two tracks then mixed and further treated with Audacity plugins.

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#38

A short recording of ice going into glass, rattling, water being added is layered with recut and minimally processed versions of itself. Processing limited to speed changes and in a few cases reverse playback.

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#39

icecode (in alex?)

two Bb wine glasses, tray of ice cubes, plastic bucket
recorded on Olympus LS-P2
as well as glass sounds, sound of ice coming out of tray, into bucket etc

10 single sounds isolated as hits in Audacity and saved as short samples
10 slightly longer gestures isolated and saved also for possible looping/granulation

abandoned longer slices: got stuck trying to recode my granulator instead of making music! also, these sounds did not seem to work well with granulation

also abandonded sounds of tray and plastic bucket, too different

finally livecoded six polyrhythmic streams of different one-shot samples, varied with pitchshifting and occasional spectral freezing.

… a rush job, really, but has it’s moments

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#40

I took last year’s recording (“Cold Start Disquiet0314”) and ran it through my Empress Reverb box after finding settings that I liked.

Then I took a photo similar to last year’s, but instead of showing my iPad running Samplr (how I made last year’s recording), I showed the Empress Reverb. I also switched desks in the past year, selling my old industrial 80’s-era level-adjustable for a newer tempered glass top.

And here’s last year’s recording: Markrushton – Cold-start-disquiet0314

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#41

I recorded ice being tossed into a tall blue-glass tumbler that I’m especially fond of; I also had soda in the glass for some samples. I used super cheap piezo mics, including two that I made improvised hydrophones with, so some samples are directly on the glass and some are in the liquid. All sounds in the track are generated from these samples; most are stretched, pitched (up or down), resampled, etc. The track was constructed in Live 9 and processed with various plug-ins, including a sample scrambler I built in M4L.

@disquiet may correct me, but I believe this is the first piece I’ve completed on time (I’ve taken several swings at this ball, but missed previous deadlines). Mark one goal for the year 50% achieved!

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#42

This is my fourth track based on the first-project-of-the-year instructions. My inspiration came first from my desire to create something very different from the other three but using identical material, and second from my wish to explore what I can do with a looping instrument I created for the RTcmix toolkit (www.rtcmix.org).
All raw content comes from 19 time offsets within a single sound file of recorded ice noises. The looping instrument repeats the content starting at those offsets, with the loop lengths varying from a second or two down to a few milliseconds, and the length of the loops can change over time in programmed fashion. The music falls into sections, some overlapping, some not. Continuous buzzing textures (very short loops) alternate with more varied textures with longer loops. The original single-pitched ice sounds are transposed up and down a diatonic scale as well, so the combinations often have a bell-like quality. This piece was generated using a single large script used to control the RTcmix software toolkit.

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#43

I started by recording the sound of ice cubes dropped into 3 different glasses (ceramic, glass and plastic). I selected several of the sounds, assigned them to a drum kit in Ableton Live, and used that to create the percussion track. To go along with the ice cube samples, I chose several pitched instruments that felt cold and windy. My hope is that you imagine a chill wind blowing across an icy landscape while listening to this track.

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#44

Here’s mine: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/yeti-disquiet0366

Ice recording in Bitwig’s Sampler and Drum Machine, and in Kaivo.

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#45

First time respondent to Disquiet. Excited to be part.
I’m new to modular and this didn’t go the way I thought, but it was enjoyable to make and it is good to have a prompt to get me going in the new year.

For this, I recorded ice swirling in a glass for about 30 seconds. I brought that into my modular system with the Morphagene.
I then took the Morphagene output into Cold Mac to use as an envelope follower. I sent that envelope all over the place, most notably to the VCA for a Dixie II+ oscillator.
The envelope from Cold Mac is also modulating the wavefolder on a Tona oscillator, which is playing the low drone.
Lots of modulated echos coming from a Chronoblob.

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#46

Hey there. I’m really excited that I stumbled across this group / project on twitter a few days ago, I’m looking forward to being a part of and contributing to this community.

Here’s my Ice Breaker:

All of the percussion in this track except for the kick(ish) sound that comes in halfway through is ice in a glass. I gave myself the additional limitation of 5 hours total to complete the track (done in 2 sessions).

My process:

I recorded 3 ice cubes rattling in a glass. I did one 60 second pass with just the ice cubes, and then another 60 seconds with the ice cubes swimming in Jameson irish whiskey. I then chopped up the recordings to remove all the individual hits I liked and made a series of percussion loops in Ableton with them. Oh, and drank the whiskey (of course). Once I had a basic percussion loop of ice cubes going, I turned on my machines and got to work. The rest of the sounds in this track were synthesized and performed on a Novation Peak synthesizer except for the aforementioned kick-like sound, which comes from my Moog DFAM which was being CV clocked from my Pro 2.

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#47

First I recorded samples of ice clinking and then put them into a Morphagene and chopped them up, but I didn’t like what I was getting.

Then I took a tuned sample, made it a sampler in Ableton, and started setting La Neige Danse (The Snow is Dancing) by Debussy. I kind of like where that was going, and I may finish it tomorrow.

Then I decided I was thinking too hard, brought 5-6 glasses and bowls to my desk, and fed the sounds of ice falling into them into Avalanche Run. I wish I’d set up a little better…I was holding the mic in one hand while I dropped ice into glasses and poured it from one to the other, then occasionally reached over to tweak the pedal. The whole thing was finished in about the time it took to record it plus 3 minutes to export it.

I don’t love this, but effects and live manipulation of acoustic sound is a thread I think I want to follow this year, so I’m happy with it in that sense.

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#48

Hello everyone and happy new year!

This is my first contribution to the Junto Project and I really look forward to contributing regularly!

From Beneath The Ice

My piece was composed of field recordings I made of Ice impacting on a glass, ice slowly melting inside of the glass (recordings made from inside the glass and around the bottom of it) and finally swirling the ice as it gradually melted into water.

The processing was acheieved by timestretching the samples and utilizing reverbs to help create the drones, delays for percussive sounds and finally distortions (because I come from a drone background and can’t kick old habits!)

This piece if actually the first piece ive made for a couple of years now and I certainly felt out of my comfort zone and rusty as heck! But, looking forward, as I said to contributing regularly and getting back into the swing of things and hopefully meet a tonne of you in the chat!

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#50

Black Ice

Contact mic taped to glass, shaken ice exciting Mutable Rings via Mutable Ears.

Effects courtesy of KOMA Field Kit FX.

All one take, no edits, just a bit of EQ in Ableton Live.

Enjoy!

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#51

Hi guys.
I’m running a bit late. :slight_smile:
I’ve spent all afternoon recording ice cubes, dropped in tibetan bowl and in glass jar. Selected loops to use and did a polyrythmic drum pattern-4-7-8 with them. Bpm is at 33.Some loops were routed to vst granular synth-vstgranny and recorded.
Did use lavish amounts of delays, reverbs and tape hiss/noise. Also did use vst Regresif on fx bus, to distort audio from granular synth.
At the end, since project was about ice, could not resist inserting “ice ice baby”. :slight_smile:


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#52

Hello,

Another first post and first time contributor here! I had some issues with my equipment so this didn’t turn out quite as I expected but I wanted to contribute in some way so here it is

I recorded 2 cubes swirled around a brandy glass then turned this into an instrument using iPulsaret on my iPad. I then recorded an improvisation. I had constructed a few other layers to add but ran into some problems so what I present here is the first and only take.
Thanks for listening and I look forward to trying to take part in as many of these as I can from now on!

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#53

This version is ashort multi tracked collage of chinking and sloshing with gradually incresing effects.

nice to revisit this project again.

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#54

HiYa all! I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to work this one in but here ya go. I hope you enjoy.I used a sample I collected of ice falling into a cup from an ice machine. I took 3 instances of the sample and placed them into individual tracks. I added EQ with the high removed from 1 and the low removed from 1 with additional processing. I then grouped 2 of them together and captured a loop of the group that was blended with a loop of the 3rd track. These were then routed to my Roli to jam thru. I then applied some final effects to a few sections of the track.

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