Pain of others - Live at Jailor's Barrel 

They say that chasing trauma is the best drug around.

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers, 'found sounds,' and 'found sound' manipulation
David Seidel: [ n/a ]: sine wave generation and manipulation
Composed and Recorded ca. March 7 to 13, 2014.
sm5b [2023 REMASTER] [eM 01] [24WAV] [from iTunes].

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"(This finished piece is based upon an unfinished work that was intended to fulfill the requirements for the 114th March 7-10, 2014 Disquiet Junto project, 'disquiet0114-60Hz,' which -- to paraphrase for simplicity's sake -- was 'to compose a piece of music using only pre-recorded sine waves.' Below is my description of the process.)"

~ Michael

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"Prior to importing the sine wave chunks, I first fixed the tempo of my DAW to 60 BPM to reflect the frequency of the sine waves within. Therefore, with respect to the piece’s title, “Infrastructure” (named in deference to a phrase in Marc Weidenbaum’s liner notes in David Seidel’s release), I could introduce sonic elements at exact temporal multiples and divisions of the number, “60”—reflective of the frequency of those electrons flowing throughout my native United States [US].

Unsure as to whether I broke the rules or not, I layered the five chunks together, muted sections of chunks 1 and 5 in order to form a seamless bed at the instant of one minute, with beginning chunk 1 left raw and ending chunk 5 fed through a distortion and reverb.

I then chopped sections from each of the others. Those sections I had chopped up were multiplied and pitch-shifted several times to form a Bb-minor chord, a Db-diminished chord, and an F-major chord. Each ‘chord’, strained as it sounded, was fed into the same distortion bus as chunk 5, which sometimes overpowered the smaller chorded chunks due to its immense low frequency power; thus, some were barely audible.

After hours and days thinking of how to make this piece musical, I realized that all waveforms are made up of sine waves. Seeking a piano waveform and a vocal waveform, I experimented. I time-compressed several sections of the chunks and layered them, which resulted in several usable sounds distinguishable from the longer, droning chunk beds—a percussive, which I elongated by 11 measures, a ‘bleep’|‘blip’|‘bloop’, which I elongated by 4 measures, and a wind sound, which I elongated to 11 measures and then shortened yet again to 4 measures. I used these sounds to punctuate the chordal changes—the Bb-minor, the Db-diminished, and the F-major chords.

Even the reverb settings were dialed in to represent the infrastructure of the US, what with rectangular room spaces (skyscrapers) and reflective surfaces representative of concrete.

After the Disquiet Junto deadline had passed, I took up the project again added a multitude of synth lines, Rhodes-ey piano licks, and muted percussion tracks. I topped the piece off with subtle throat-singing samples from FreeSound.org:

storm#16.wav: http://www.freesound.org/people/djgriffin/sounds/22023/
tibetan chant 3.wav: http://www.freesound.org/people/djgriffin/sounds/15363/ "

~ Michael

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"More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:

http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz "

~ Marc Weidenbaum

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Infrastructure

"Infrastructure" [2014] [2023 REMASTER] [based on (disquiet0114-60Hz)] ~ Michael Ash Sharbaugh

These desperate times calls for desperate measures
My desperate mind seeks desperate pleasures
I cover up all this shame
Then erupt with all this pain and

This life is paralyzing
This life is paralyzing
And no one's here
I'm all alone and
This life is paralyzing me

Blinding lights blinds my eyes
Is it heaven judging my lies?
It's God's thumb pushing down
Putting me out in the ground

This life is paralyzing
This life is paralyzing
And no one's here
I'm all alone and
This life is paralyzing me

The more I bleed
The more I share
No one listens
And I don't care

This life is paralyzing
This life is paralyzing
And no one's here
I'm all alone and
This life is paralyzing me

Michael Cybulski - Vocals, Guitars, Bass
Mike Shannon - Vocals
Dmitry Strakhov - Guitar Solo
Glenn Welman - Drums

Written and produced by Michael Cybulski
Mastered by Widek

This Life is Paralyzing

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Sembler, Of The Cross To Rule Eternity

"Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von 'Unendliches Feuer' - Ein inspirierender Rap-Song über Entschlossenheit und Stärke.

Unendliches Feuer_Audio

Bitten by an uncommon Pipistrelle

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

what it costs to be there - 12:9:23, 10.07 PM

Pearl

songs used:
    psYcHo SwAGGeR - The Psycho is back 
        https://soundcloud.com/industwe-trust/tje-psycho-is-back
    psYcHo SwAGGeR soundcloud:
        https://soundcloud.com/industwe-trust

    DH - Free type beat 
        https://soundcloud.com/dh_production/2_5411291594731037496-mp3
    DH soundcloud:
        https://soundcloud.com/dh_production

PsYcHo SwAGGeR & DH - The Psycho Is Back (dj Baubau Remix)

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Ateriga [part 1]

Raw Black Metal / DSBM / Post black / Dungeon synth / Ambient
Inspired Kentaro Miura's:  "Berserk", and the Soulsborne series
Portland, OR, USA

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Master Burial