Disquiet Junto Project 0471: Phase Transition

[alanza]

This is my second time doing the ice project. I asked for a microphone for Christmas, so this was a fun opportunity to use it. Originally I tried putting the clink of the ice cubes into Simpler to make an instrument and played something with it, but wasn’t happy with that I ended up with. Instead I threw the full samples into MLR and recorded a little jam with them. Then I went back and improvised a melody over the top of the MLR session.

[mzero]

@symplesound - that was great, and welcome to the Junto
@gis_sweden - that made me crack up! excellent!
@Bick_Brannigan - excellent entry and welcome to the Junto.
@Comoving_Observer - I like how there are some many distinct sections and welcome to the Junto, too!

[ray_cobley]

Live multiple channel recordings without additions or enhancements.

[sevenism]

my partner wanted me to record her jumping in an icy field the other week; i thought this was similar enough to the brief, and a nice synchronicity.

got some tonal elements from repeatedly adding reverb then paulstretch
played in vital
then back into audacity with low quality tempo stretch

[mdh]

I don’t really have the means of recording new samples this time around, so I decided to re-use the samples I recorded 2 years ago for the first ever disquiet I did. Back then I loaded them into my Digitakt to create something rhythmic & with a bit of structure.

This time I’m away from all my usual gear for the time being so I decided to try something ITB with Ableton. So, this is just 3 samples manipulated in various ways and basically drowned in effects to try to create a bit of a soundscape.

[PopGoblin]

@symplesound : Was this done only with the single cube and lead glass? Impressive!
@Glitcher : There was several great rhythms hidden in the ice there
@mzero : Great Idea - great video!

[apanmusic]

Imported the recording into multiple instances of Logic’s quick sampler.

[hightowersdeepwells]

Another enjoyable Junto. Knocked this one together quickly whilst my daughter was napping. Blocks of ice hitting my whisky glass recorded to my phone, then chopped up & loaded into Norns & sequenced via Takt. Once I had a loop I liked, this was then stored on an sd card, looped on radio music, then formed the backbone of a modular patch, which I recorded a live take of.

[Glitcher]

@gis_sweden made me smile. Thanks

@mzero Great sounds, gave me GAS for better glassware and more and bigger ice cubes.

@name_constant even more GAS for better glassware and great track

@ Comoving_observer nice tones and bell type sounds, Welcome to the Junto.

@melondruie lovely Artic soundscape

[janglesoul]

It seemed important to get in on the first Junto this year! I did a quick resample of my ice cubes. First stretching repitching it down in multiple octaves. Then using the sounds to build some basic groove. Tried to create a pad-instrument but it didn’t work out. Also used some Ableton Grain Delay-preset called bubbles.

Cheating: I used two different glasses. A percussive whisky tumbler and a chimy wine glass. At 00:42 You can even here me chewing an ice cube.

[erika.nesse]

Ice sounds nicer when it’s melted for a while. I layered different speeds to create a windchime-like effect.

[erika.nesse]

Love the bell-like noises and beat.

[Leonard_Bowman]

Always nice to start at the (new) beginning.

I recorded my ice using my new-ish Zoom H4n, then made some patches with it in Vital.
• The opening chords are made using the flange filter as a resonator.
• The percussive lead plays the sounds of the ice pouring into the sink, pitched down through reverb and a delay that’s randomly modulated with each new note.
• The kick comes from that same sample, heavily filtered and compressed.
• The supersaw pad and the bass use it as a wavetable. Arguably the least inspired way of using the sample but it sounded good enough for me.
• I also loaded my recording into Sitala to slice it up as a drum part, which forms the backbone of the rhythm.

All things considered this wasn’t a very inspired piece but I wanted to push through and make something anyway. Here I am now.

oh, and it’s tuned in 16edo because I wanted to step out of my usual meantone zone. It mostly stays in the Gorgo[11] scale.

[jks]

Another January evening, another recording of ice rattling in glasses [i made Al a Gin & Tonic this year, v. pro social].

From the second year on*, i’ve been trying to make these in some sort of conversation with each other, even as i try to make a point of heightening their differences; last year’s was an extended, highly processed drone so this this years should be cleaner, more percussive…

with that in mind, i chopped small sections out of the recording of the ice cubes [& bevarage] and set them to rattle away in a more or less randomised pattern at 108bpm. I tried to chip away at it, make sure ithad some sort of swing but it wasn’t obviously repetative, you know? Once i had a framework i liked, I processed it further in audiomulch - making a couple grittier/degraded versions and putting it through a ludicrous disteneded granualtion thing i’ve been working with for something else.

With four versions rendered i then set about chopping them about, making them kind of fit together as an inconsistently consistent ~beat. & here we are.

*this is my ninth one of these; ~40 minutes or so. That’s… kind of sort of an album [!]

[rhein]

First time submitting a track here though I’ve been watching for awhile.

I recorded some ice with my tascam dx-07 and chopped it up to use as a type of percussion.
Added my juno-6 arp and some prophet 5 with various eurorack noise.
Also added the sound from an ASMR video I found on youtube where the person talks about the benefits of ice.
It’s been a long time since I made something that I wasn’t trying to make for an album, that was fun and refreshing… like ice.

[zoundsabar]

I recorded this track with a square glass vase and two Geofóns suction cupped onto it, and also the X/Y mic that came with the Zoom H6. I cut the resulting LR sounds from the Zoom mic into a lot of varying pieces and made some bass booms from the Geofón ice hits.

The results are assembled on a 4/4 120 bpm tempo grid in Pro Tools. I added some Valhalla Delay, here and there and a bit of Adaptiverb on the outro. Fabfilter Pro-Q 3 and Pro-C 2 on mastering duties.

I almost never do anything rhythmic, so this is kind of a first attempt at creating a fun beat, while featuring some of the typical ice in glass sounds I captured. Also the first time I’ve used the Geofóns. The cable handling noise is big, so moving the glass vase was not good on those mics, but helped get some nice movement on the X/Y mic.

[BorisBelawiz]

My first Disquiet Junto! Was very excited and inspired about this assignment. Every element in this song is made from three samples of ice cubes in a glass that I recorded on my phone. I put the samples in Ableton and with Simpler and sound design editing (Effects, panning, sample manipulation etc.) I created around 10 drum elements and 3 melodic elements from these samples. Plus I spread the raw samples into the track, with very light pan editing. I put the rhythms down quite quickly, because I wanted to make this track as fast as possible. Hope you enjoy!

[BorisBelawiz]

This track put a smile on my face. Well done, sir

[fakeg3nius]

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.

[Noimspartacus]

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