I took the three main sounds that made up the original ice recording I did in 2012, I cut them up, mashed them together, repeated them at varying pitches with varying amounts of reverb to get the ticking clock sound (including its repeated accidental hiccup) and dropped in a few examples of the pure sound of ice in a crystal glass.
A couple of shorter mashups and stretches were added.
A mashup of all the ice sounds was then processed three different ways in Paulstretch and laid under the previous mix.
Voila, with ice.
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The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with 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 January ever since has provided a fitting way to begin the new year. By now, it qualifies as 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.
More on the 731st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chill In — The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at https://disquiet.com/0731/.
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /
