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.
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