Chandelier Tinkle

How it's made

Source

crystal pendants touching in a draft; filtered 1.5 ms contact bursts accompany bending-mode impulse responses, summed as damped sinusoidal mode pairs with rounded contact attacks.

Body

seven fixed pendant sizes, lowest modes 1.65-2.85 kHz; inharmonic ratios 1, 1.47, 2.09, 2.83. Each mode has a weak partner 1.3-3.1 Hz away for slow shimmer, not a musical chord.

Envelope

0.8-1.8 ms rounded attacks; fundamental T60 1.4-3.2 s, upper modes 0.4-1.9 s. Higher modes lose energy sooner. Occasional weaker contacts follow after 90-210 ms.

Events

irregular collisions average 0.35-1.8 per second; slow draft wander makes clusters and gaps. No audible wind bed: the draft is represented by changing collision probability and strength.

Variation

seeded pendant selection, collision strength, contact hardness and stereo position; frequencies stay fixed per pendant. Size scales modes; ring controls damping; draft controls activity.

Presets

still air leaves isolated fine contacts; open window adds clusters; large drops ring lower and longer; short prisms give small, bright, quickly damped contacts. Dry stereo, no room reverb.

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