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Close your eyes.

Listen.

Must there be a visual element to sound?

What is a musical instrument?

The Ice-O-Matic electric ice crusher is a sound making device, along with the rest of them. But the intention if ICEBREAKER is not instrumentation, composition, or presentation. It's about creating and experience through listening. The Ice-O-Matic was used as a starting point to record and manipulate sounds wihich were then fed through 8 speakers placed in a circle facing the center of a dark room. You are in the center. There is a chair and some cushions but you are free to walk around and do as you please. The room is more than dark. It is black. You can't see your hand in front of your face. Whether you close your eyes or not doesn't really matter. The sounds originationg from the Ice-O-Matic begin to engulf you. They come from various points in space and move around you, through you, over you, past you, within you. You hear many things and they might be very differen from what I hear or what the next person hears. You may detect the sounds of ice being crushed or the humming and rattling of the motor along with outside noises but you will hear a lot of other things to. And they might remind you of memories or inspire fanatsies. Or you might just get bored. And that's tokay too.