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Addition​/​Reduction (disquiet0053​-​ice2013)

from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2013 by Mark Rushton

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This week’s project is as follows:

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 as the very first Disquiet Junto project, the same one that launched the series on the first Thursday of 2012. Revisiting it a year later provides a fitting way to begin the new year.

Description of my process in planning, composing, and recording Addition/Reduction (disquiet0053-ice2013):

I wanted to make this very fast. I didn't have much time to devote to the Junto this weekend, what with all the sports on TV, obligations, chores, etc.

Not including uploading and writing the description, I completed everything in about 30 minutes.

I knew I was going to use the Samplr app for iPad for the composition, so I could record one WAV file, about 20 seconds in length. This file was added to Samplr and multiplied across the six available sections for a project. Then I played around with the various settings until I had 6 different interesting sounds.

The recording was a simple addition/reduction of the mix. I added the six sections together over the course of the first minute, then slowly reduced the individual sections.

It took a little longer than expected because Samplr crashed once after some graphics started overlapping, something that hasn't happened before, but I saved the project before it fully crashed and nothing was lost.

The first half of the piece is intensely rhythmic. The last half morphs into a shuffling, kind-of-ska beat.

More on this 53rd Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2013/01/03/disquiet0053-ice2013/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

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from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2013, released April 27, 2014

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I make way too much electronic music. Mostly ambient, some beat-driven.

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