Plastic Ice Cubes - disquiet0262 by Daniel Diaz

published on 2017-01-06T16:31:20Z

Plastic Ice Cubes - disquiet0262 Track created on January 6th 2017for the Disquiet Junto 0262 project: Ice Music. Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it. This is not an inspiring theme/challenge for me, that’s why I decided to go for it. I recorded some ice cubes on a big wine glass, after playing back that raw recording the challenge was even less inspiring, if possible. After listening to the early birds AudioObscura Noimspartacus and Bassling I’ve found their efforts much inspiring (thanks guys) so here’s mine (first ice cube audio experience for me) My wife bought some plastic ice cubes. Yes she did. Guess most of you know they exists, but I was surprised. She has a point, you know, when you add ice cubes to a not-fairly-cool drink you need some time for the ice to operate it’s magic and by then you have water in your drink. I don’t like that, so these little plastic friends are ice cold with no pollution on your beloved drink. But they sound awful. You’ll hear a track of the plastic (in the photo BTW) rattled inside the glass, another track of the same coloured cubes dropping on a glass of water, and then the same procedures with normal ice cubes. I wanted this to sound like some classy dandy stirring his ice-cube drenched cocktail but it sounds like some space rain drops on a rusty railroad.. Recipe: I pitched down the rattling tracks, pasted the ice-cube-drops to NI FM8 synth and used a plastic-rattling-cubes track as a carrier for an instance of Waves Morphoder plugin, Played back the whole thing through convolution reverbs. And that’s it. You can add a zest of lemon and enjoy. On the rocks. More on this 262nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Ice Code: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it”: http://disquiet.com/0262/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/junto/1 Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/1 Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/ice-music-years-first-project-disquiet-junto-0262/5990 There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.