Ice Ice Baby - Pixelgasm - theMuzzl3 -- disquiet0224-coldembrace

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This is a track that is made up entirely of sounds from refrigerators owned by members of Pixelgasm. This track was mixed, mastered, and produced by theMuzzl3. I kind of ran out of time during the mixing/mastering stages, so I'm not happy with the volume of it. Since I was already 10 minutes passed midnight when I uploaded it, I decided to do some minor adjustments to volume and re-upload, but it still needs work. I'm gonna remix/master it later for my final Pixelgasm mix of it. This track is one of two mixes made by members of Pixelgasm (the other mix was made by Spacey Blurr). It includes recordings of refrigerators and freezers owned by members of Pixelgasm, which is an online musical collaboration project headed by David Pixley theMuzz3, Spacey Blurr, Sergio Blue, and Mike Luv. Pixelgasm's soundcloud page has links to all of its contributing members' soundcloud pages -- found here: @Pixelgasm I quantized some of the recording to a fixed BPM, which was decided by what appeared to be the rhythm or BPM of one of the fridge's hums. I put sections of recordings of each fridge's hum into keyfinder to estimate the key of each fridge. I solo's hum from one of the fridge recordings and examined the EQ curve to verify what the fundamental key of the hum appeared to be. I use high que settings on bell-curves to boost frequencies that were associated with the fundamental key of the hum. I used high que settings on bell-curves to remove frequencies that appeared to be not associated with the fundamental key of the hum. I bounced that audio file down. I analyzed the hum sections of other recordings to verify what key they appeared to be in. I transposed them to match the key of the first fridge's hum, and applied the same EQ curves that applied to the first fridge. Organized loops of hum into 4 layers (1 for each person's fridge). Made & organized layers of loops from the percussion from audio files. Mixed 4 drone channels with 3 percussion layers. Reversed some of the layers of percussion. Side chained percussion layers to trigger compressions/gates in drone channels. Added modulation of effects to duplicated layer of loops. Triggered sidechains in non-modulation effects loops and in drone channels, for compressions/gates/filters. Added AUX Channel sent to itself for feedback & triggered it with percussion/effected channels for feedback. The AUX channel has the EQ's that were used in the beginning, and a filter. Here is a list of individuals from Pixelgasm which made recordings of their refrigerators/freezers for this track, as well as a brief description of the recording they made: Spacey Blurr: @SpaceyBlurr * *Zoom H1 Handy Portable Digital Recorder *Variety of sounds: inside and outside hum. Ice fail. Sergio Blue: @infinati * * *Hum (refrigerator motor) sound David Pixley: @theMuzzl3 * *Zoom H4N Handy Portable Digital Recorder *Variety of sounds: hum, variety of percussion from bumps/banging/playing with stuff in the fridge, ice machine, etc. Ethan Vandal: @EthanVandal *Refrigerator: Amana Energy Saver *GE Upright Deep Freeze 1971-72 *Recorded with a Samson C01 Studio Condenser. *Variety of sounds: hum, variety of percussion from bumps/banging/playing with stuff in the fridge, ice machine, etc. More on this 224th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Make music with the sound of a refrigerator as its foundation.”) at: disquiet.com/0224/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/ Join the Disquiet Junto at: soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/ Subscribe to project announcements here: tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/ Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at: disquiet.com/forums/ The image associated with this project is by Timothy Allen and is used thanks to a Creative Commons license: flic.kr/p/yQWAr/