Before They Melt [disquiet0345] by Yasha

Submission to: Disquiet Junto Project 0345: Sample Time
Assignment: Make your own drum machine sounds, do something with them, and share them. For more information, go to: https://disquiet.com/0345/

For drums, I like various metallic or mechanical clicks, clangs, thwacks and whirs. For this assignment, I used Audacity to create a set of similar sounds by chopping up a recording of an ice cube being shaken in a water glass (made for another Disquiet Junto challenge which I never completed). For effects, I mostly altered pitch and/or duration of the ice cube samples, with a instance or two of filtering and reversing.

I ended up with a kit of 16 drums, to which I gave onomatopoetic names: Shik, Klep, Ghip, Urik, Harg, Kup, Gwik, Tjuk, Rishk, Hurik, Kurup, Pligig, Kurikubob, Sjuwik, Kibubit, and Prrup.

The following song has three sections, each with a drum part, a vocal part (featuring Klevgrand Jussi and samples from the Camel Alchemy Dream Voices soundset), and an accordion part (using samples from the Detunized Bellows Live Pack).