I've not had a lot of spare time recently but I didn't want to miss the tradition of playing around with ice cubes at the start of the year. As per all previous submissions I've stuck with the original recording I made the first time I entered the ice challenge.
I ran it through Borderlands on the iPad and experimented with other iPad apps. I found that when I loaded into Blocs Wave and slowed it done and fed it through an amp simulation you get a weird flangey, talk box type squawk which I thought was interesting if not that easy to listen to.
The drums and synth accompaniment were provided by Reaktor blocks
and the various elements were mushed together. Mixed on headphones with a hangover so apologies for any stray frequencies that have been missed by my deadened senses.
Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.
Background: Longtime participants in, and observers of, the Disquiet Junto series will recognize this single-sentence assignment — “Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it” — as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series back on the first Thursday of January 2012. Revisiting it at the start of each year since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. At the start of the seventh (!) year of the Disquiet Junto, it is a tradition. A weekly project series can come to overemphasize novelty, and it’s helpful to revisit old projects as much as it is to engage with new ones. Also, by its very nature, the Disquiet Junto suggests itself as a fast pace: a four-day production window, a regular if not weekly habit. It can be beneficial to step back and see things from a longer perspective.
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