#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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#61

Best of the New Year to all the Junto! Here’s my shaken ice piece. Simple looping and arpeggiated samples of the field (kitchen) recording form the percussive background. I play some keys and guitar over that. All done in Logic.

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#62

I wanted to keep this simple so I limited myself to a single recorded instance of ice rattling in a glass (4 cubes in a Duralex tempered Picardie glass, recorded with an SM57) and made a piece in Ableton Live using a minimum of extra effects or plug-ins.

I tried to develop a composition by repitching and chopping up the recording in various ways and distributing them throughout the piece using various simple principles (equally spaced, at different intervals). Things got messier and more intuitive as the piece developed.
I also made a few tracks that were more drone-like, largely done using a (no longer) free “granular reverb” plug-in I got over the holidays called Things-Texture.
I tried to use EQ and saturation to make the drones more musical but I could only get so far with it.

My first contribution here after threatening our good host for several years.

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#63

A thought occurred to me as I was playing around with recordings of ice I made with two glasses and two microphones using a Tascam DR680. Art is the environment (e.g., me) simulating the environment, via the environment, in a way that changes the environment.

This art/simulation results from messing around with samples in loops, and then doodling on top of them with sounds I either heard in the recordings or felt inclined to add. It is incomplete, so I look forward to revisiting it over the coming years.

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#64

Had a lot more fun than I expected dropping, stirring, splashing and shaking. Felt like a kid splashing around! All sounds from what’s shown in the video. Love the sonic possibilities from these materials. I think these samples will get used again! :grinning: More info about this on creaturesonce.com/ice-beat

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#65

Salut! Allow me to throw my little mazel tov cocktail into the mix here! Wasn’t sure I was going to make it, but this seemed like an important one, so … no time for recording, I used @bassling’s file from last year – thanks, Jason! Did some initial edits with Audacity, stretching and reversing and so on, then started with a pad made from a paulstretched bit in Logic. Didn’t like where that was going, so I threw this S&H effect from Fracture on it, played a little pitch shifted melody and sent that to a granular filter delay on one knob, and a filtered chord on another. Another track of fairly straight ice rattles was added with a smear and sttuter effect. It was at this point I noticed that previewing audio in the library was cutting into the 2 playing tracks in an odd, glitchy way, so I grabbed a take of that with Audio Hijack and this turned out to be the key to the call and answer, stop and start feel of the track, which I was quite happy with. The same pad from before with some eq and subharmonics created the stuttered bass to balance out the frequencies. About 3 hours worth of happy accidents over multiple passes, carelessly improvised. This is not really how I like to work, but circumstances have conspired against me. With more time I’d have liked to add pitch shifters to the S&H and bass and do some key changes that way, but will save it for another day. Here’s to a propitious 2021!

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