#41

And… it starts again! Looking forward to what the year brings. Last year I took the provided recordings but this year I made my own (and then mixed the cubes with a cocktail). Straightforward chord progression, just mainly focussing on the sounds, recorded from a Microfreak, added various reverbs and some small tweaks. Nothing too fancy, just a bit of a warm-up.

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#42

I‘ve been doing these New Year Ice challenges for a few years and I suppose each year is a snapshot of whatever I was using at the time. This year, what with the Covid buggeration, meant I spent a lot of time building diy synths and modules to keep me sane(ish). I most recently built a Plinky synth, a simply lovely polyphonic digital synth and sampler which is controlled by a pressure sensitive touch plate. I fed it the original loop I used for the challenge in 2013 and used its outputs to trigger a DFAM and modulate fx. The decayed sax sound is the plinky oscillators fed through Monsoon

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#43


This is the first time I participate in the annual ice cubes challenge of the Disquiet Junto. I first recorded the sound of ice cubes falling into a glass in Audacity. Then I slowed the recording down 10 and 50 times. I made three versions of a 30 times slowed down recording: with pitch change, without pitch change and paulstretch. I also made a reversed version of the original recording.
I loaded all recordings in Nysthi’s Quad Simpler in VCV Rack. The original recording goes through a delay for a nice stereo rhythm. The three 30 times slowed down versions are combined to make a comfy bed for the basses and melodies to lie in. They are triggered every now and then bij the EOC-trigger of the 10 times slowed down version. The 50 times slowed down version makes for a really deep bass, but it also provides, through an envelope follower, CV for the pitch of a sawtooth that is filtered and the cut-off frequency is controlled by the reverse recording (also through an envelope follower). This is triggered by the EOC-trigger of the original recording, to get some nice synchronicity.
After pondering the relevant questions of how to start and how to stop, I came up with this.

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#44

After recording the ice and the glass, I began by attempting something with the Digitakt. Realized quite quickly that I wasn’t going to want much rhythm, and i wanted chords with the resonance of the glass. So I moved on to Ableton’s Sampler and it fell into place pretty quickly. I’ve been playing a lot with long notey phrases, and allowing the tails of the decays to reverse their way back into the ice hitting the glass was the unique feature I wanted here.
I took part in the first of these, eight years ago, and several afterward. It’s been some time. Pleased to hear these contributions. Thanks.

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#45

Hi everyone, this is my first post here and also my first Disquiet Junto submission!!

The process is very simple and straightforward: i sampled some ice in a glass with a contact mic going through an sp404sx. Then i play with these short loops sending them to the Norns Shield running the cranes script. Then I took the recording and slightly edited it on Audacity, nothing fancy. This is one of my first test with my new norns and my first try with this particular script. I want to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in this amazing disquiet junto project and to everyone in this community!!

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#46

This is my first Disquiet in a couple of years at least, and it’s the first time I’ve done the “phase transition” project. I recorded several different ice sounds in one of our holiday old-fashioned glasses pictured using a Zoom H5 with the included x-y mics. I then edited the samples and dumped them in Maschine where I completed the arrangement and added effects where needed.

My inspiration for this track was David Byrne’s description of Balinese gamelan music and the idea of ‘amateur art’ in his book “How Music Works”. This year marks the beginning of a sort of “depth year” for me where I’m hoping to embrace being an amateur musician and bring a sense of play back into my work, which has been largely stagnant to the point of nonexistent for a few years as I grappled with some big life changes.

Looking forward to y’all hearing it.

EDIT: Discovered a pretty severe mixing issue after I uploaded, edited the link to direct to the updated file.

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#47

Hi folks! Here’s a thing. I recorded a couple sounds–ice dropped in a glass, swirled, chunked (I’m not sure what “chunking” is, but ice was definitely chunked at some point). Picked one of the more “musical” ones, edited it down a bit for some nice percussive edge. Fiddled with the timing to make it sound kind of interesting. Then ran two copies of the sample with random pitch shift in stereo–hard left and right–but with the left one echoing right and the right one echoing left, but then the left echo bounces to the right one and vice versa. Anyway, there’s a lot of bouncing.

All this was done in ChucK and I ran it a few times with different playback rates on the sample (so you hear it shift up and down here). Fun! Here’s the code:

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#48

fantastic. Love the beat and the original sound is something else!

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#49

Is it that time of year again?

I remixed/remangled/reimagined a previous ice-originated piece, one that had already been through numerous incarnations, all based on my original ice recording in 2013 (I think).

Interestingly, you can still hear moments of tinkling iciness buried in the noise…

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#50

I do really enjoy this yearly project. Recorded the sound of ice in three different materials of cups. The ceramic and metal providing the more melodic elements and plastic seems to do well for the kick and snare. Overall I took a pretty straight forward approach composing entirely in Caustic and shooting for an 80’s pop vibe except with ice.

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#51


First time I participate in the annual ice cubes challenge…

Ice cubes fall into a glass.
Recorded with a Tascam DR-100MKII + built-in mics Uni.
The Tascam is placed vertically on the glass, in contact.

A Pure data patch lets you hear the recording transposed to 3 voices and brings out their harmonic components by spreading out them over time.
At the beginning we hear the untransposed sound.

This is the same Pure data patch as for:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/3stones-disquiet0441

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#52

Contact mic and dynamic mic recordings of ice cubes in a glass loaded into several instances of Ableton Simpler then affected by Sinevibes Albedo, Eventide Crystals and AudioThing Frostbite 2.

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#53

As I started joining in with these last September, this is my first time with the ice prompt. I made a recording on my phone, and decided to use Emission Control to throw a load of granular processing onto my ice. This felt especially appropriate as it was through participating in lines that I discovered Emission Control, and discussions here also helped push me to figure out upgrading my old-ass laptop to run things like this, and to start using a midi controller to more intuitively ‘play’ various sound softwares.

I recorded five minutes or so of a large ice cube in a glass (over the bath, so I could pour water out occasionally to change the pitch), loaded the results into Emission Control, and recorded about 15 minutes of fader-riding improvisation. Then, in Reaper, I chopped that up into sections, picked the bits I liked best, and layered / stitched them together into a 3 minute piece, with a louder start and a softer end. No other elements were used, but the results still sound quite a long way away from ice in a glass to my mind!

Thanks to all, and especially to Marc @disquiet for keeping this going all this time, it’s been a very positive addition to my routine.

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#54

This is my first Junto in quite some time, and my second ice cube track (the last one was in 2018)

My wife recorded the ice cube samples this time around on an iPhone–I put them on my iPad and into Poly 2 and Spacecraft Granular Synth, with effects added from Koala FX. Final sequencing and mixing in Ableton Live. Hope to participate a bit more often in 2021!

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#55

Thanks! I’m hoping to participate more - and for my contributions, I’ll include the Ableton file whenever possible. College prof here, so I’m happy to share my experience with the community. Be well :slight_smile:

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#56

@Comoving_Observer - I enjoyed the way you mixed fairly heavily processed sounds of ice alongside natural recordings: the contrast is quite compelling.
@alanza - I enjoyed the subtle processing and, in particular, how you made a pitched sound out of the ice and managed to keep from playing a conventional, dense melody.
@apanmusic - The harmony and arp alongside the bass drum had a hint of ice but felt transformed; it had a “lofi hip-hop” vibe that I enjoyed.

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#57

I recorded a short sample of ice cubes in a glass and made a kind of drum kit from it by duplicating, stretching and pitchshifting parts of the sample in Audacity. I got snare sounds, hihat and a kind of tom sound from it. Then loaded everything in Caustic. The melody is played using the same sample by looping a very short segment of it (single cycle waveform) and playing it using PCMSynth. I added lots of reverb and even a Vinyl simulator. Here is the result:

Wecome to all the new Junto members!

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#58

Phase Transition (Ice In a Glass 2021) disquiet0471
A very short duet for piano and the sound of ice in a glass.

Created with RTC library and Straylight. Recorded and edited in Audacity.

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#59

I wasn’t sure I’d have time to do this, but I found a couple of hours to dash something off.

ymeynard · Five Frozen Angels [disquiet0471]

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#60

Thanks as always Marc and all who participate.

Recorded ice into the Audioshare app on iPhone > Organelle (FX13 patch)> Bastl Dude mixer > Tascam DR-40 recorder

Also Bastl Kastle Drum > Bastl Dude mixer > Tascam DR-40 recorder

Art from some comics I drew in sketchbooks

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