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Disquiet Junto Project 0153: Groove Lock

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: synthesizers and found sounds
Composed and Recorded ca. December 5 to 7, 2014.
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For this Disquiet Junto assignment, I was charged with the task of “record[ing] a short sound intended to be set on repeat.” Desirous of making use of the maximum time allotted for the assignment, I opted to make the ‘sound’ [loop] exactly nine seconds long. In order to bring a nine-second piece of 4/4 rhythm to a seamless, repeatable, and loopable four-bar close, it necessitated that the piece’s tempo be set to approximately 106.60 beats per minute.

To this rhythmic pace, I time-stretched and heavily effected an obscure one-bar sample containing honky-tonk piano, twangy guitar, and lazy drums that I have had for many years, and whose source escapes me. I then proceeded to layer three synthesizer parts beside the time-stretched sample, mindful to augment and complement the odd, ‘non-scalar harmonics’ hinted at within the original sample. Each of these parts was run through a distinct variation of a singular, deep, swelling reverb preset. Finally, a heavy, throbbing overdriven bass was added to push the piece along.

Seamlessly looping heavily delayed and reverberated sound sources proved very difficult; due to pre-delays, the sound usually begins ‘dry’ and ends ‘wet.’ Therefore, I actually recorded double the length—eight bars—of each track just in order to capture the resultant wet sound present by the beginning of the fifth bar. I then deleted the first four bars of each track and only used the fifth through eighth bars, shifting them to the beginning of each track.

More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project—“record a short sound intended to be set on repeat”—at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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Image associated with this project by Stuart R Brown:

http://flic.kr/p/mFQC3



"A Deepening Swell" [disquiet0153-groovelock]

using sounds by http://freesound.org/people/jorickhoofd -- bedaankt!

http://sccode.org/1-4Rs

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Disquiet Junto Project 0153: Groove Lock
The Assignment: Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat.

SoundCloud recently introduced the ability for a track to be looped on the website. That is, the listener can hit a button (details at disquiet.com/QVvCF) and the track will play over and over. This week’s project will make use of that feature. This week’s project will also, I should note, inform next week’s project. But you can do next week’s without doing this week’s, and vice-versa.

Step 1: Record a short, original piece of music/sound of between roughly 3 and 9 seconds intended to be set on repeat.

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 and 9 seconds long.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, December 4, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, December 8, 2014, as the deadline.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0153-groovelock” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project — “Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

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acousmaloop 2014 [disquiet0153-groovelock]

Since this might be used by others as a loop (or p'haps heard alone in auto repeat mode), let's start out with some shout outs to others somewhere in mind of what happened here:

Wanting to use cassette as a jumping off point includes plenty.  But very definitely Hal McGee for his cassette releases and creative use of cassette recording (micro- and otherwise):
http://www.haltapes.com/
https://halmcgee.bandcamp.com/

For even wanting to loop nowadays,  Brother James in general:
http://thereisspaceshipsoverdeeside.blogspot.com/

And moody alien's recent release, in the forest:
https://moodyalien.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-forest

For wanting to hear the vertical steady state of the union and disunion, Dave Seidel hereabouts:
http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz

That said.  Handheld Panasonic cassette recorder (found on trash day back in the '90s) was used to record my doggerel vocal whatnot.  That was played into the mic of a computer recording to Virtual ANS in a pixelated, vaguely sonographic form.  Wherein a piece of that which was increased in contrast was also reversed and played very   s l o w l y   without pitch change.  Trimmed in Audacity, that's what's playing here.

Regarding Virtual ANS:
http://warmplace.ru/soft/ans/

More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project — “Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums/
Image associated with this project by Stuart R Brown:
http://flic.kr/p/mFQC3


Unclearly So [disquiet0153-groovelock]

NOTE: this is intended to be played as a loop using the repeat function recently introduced by Soundcloud. 

Addendum: The looping issue I experienced seems to be an artifact of using Safari initially. Once played in Chrome, the repeat point seems somewhat more consistent. 

This is a bit of a disappointment for me as I adore vinyl lock groove recordings. I would have loved to produce a loop that could be consistently looped on Soundcloud. But the repeat function seems barely useable, and it is definitely NOT operating as a loop should with gapless playback. So, I tried to create a loop that leant itself to the random periodicity between playbacks on Soundcloud. In my testing, gaps anywhere from one to ten seconds seem to occur. I found such gaps really detracting when listening to other's loops (though the material in the loops was great) so I decided to build some moments of silence into my loop hoping that this would mask the inconsistencies of playback on this platform. I don't think it actually works though. I recontextualized a portion from my most recent composition: https://soundcloud.com/337is/love-abounding-neurorack-sketch-2

Where all sounds were created and processed using EEG data. See www.sound-machines.it/index.php/bi1brainterface/ for more details on the amazing device I used. All outputs of the BI1brainterface were routed to the Shapeshifter, Optomix, and Spring Reverb as control CVs. 

Additional information on this project:

Disquiet Junto Project 0153: Groove Lock
The Assignment: Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat.

SoundCloud recently introduced the ability for a track to be looped on the website. That is, the listener can hit a button (details at disquiet.com/QVvCF) and the track will play over and over. This week’s project will make use of that feature. This week’s project will also, I should note, inform next week’s project. But you can do next week’s without doing this week’s, and vice-versa.

Step 1: Record a short, original piece of music/sound of between roughly 3 and 9 seconds intended to be set on repeat.

Step 2: Upload the finished track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.

Step 3: Listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.

Length: Your finished work should be between roughly 3 and 9 seconds long.

Deadline: This assignment was made in the evening, California time, on Thursday, December 4, with 11:59pm on the following Monday, December 8, 2014, as the deadline.

Upload: Please when posting your track on SoundCloud, only upload one track for this assignment, and include a description of your process in planning, composing, and recording it. This description is an essential element of the communicative process inherent in the Disquiet Junto.

Title/Tag: When adding your track to the Disquiet Junto group on Soundcloud.com, please include the term “disquiet0153-groovelock” in the title of your track, and as a tag for your track.

Download: It is preferable that your track is set as downloadable, and that it allows for attributed remixing (i.e., a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution).

Linking: When posting the track, please be sure to include this information:

More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project — “Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/
Image associated with this project by Stuart R Brown:

http://flic.kr/p/mFQC3

Love, Abounding (Chopped & Skrewed Loopt Edit) [disquiet0153-groovelock]

For this project I decided to go back to where I started and compose this 7 second piece in the manner of the first Junto project I took part in:
disquiet0056-matteroftime ( https://soundcloud.com/peter-tigges/ocean-of-time-disquiet0056 )
This time I created all sounds out of a single -rapidly looping- keyboard stroke and some digital effects.
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More on this 153rd Disquiet Junto project — “Record a short sound intended to be set on repeat” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/12/04/disquiet0153-groovelock/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Image associated with this project by Stuart R Brown:

http://flic.kr/p/mFQC3

What does 273.15 K taste like? [disquiet0153-Groovelock]

DARK WAVE | SPACEROCK | VAPORTRAP | TRIP-HOP
AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Since 1985, Philadelphia-born Michael has composed and released hundreds of audio recordings, and published dozens of [erotic] poems.

His 'sonic-sojourn' began suddenly when he was just a teen -- feet splashing rhythmically through puddles leftover by a seaside rainstorm. Having just parted ways with the then-love-of-his-life, Michael composed his first ballad [and first song] ever -- "Tina." He rushed to his beach-side home to record his visceral 'awakening' on a tiny micro-cassette recorder, and vowed -- from that day on -- to create art for the rest of his life.

He began zealously amassing used music equipment, and had built a modest home recording studio by age seventeen, all the while crafting simple pop, ambient, and experimental works that HE had wanted to listen to -- that HE had wanted to hear, affectionately emulating the works of his then-idols, Duran Duran and Brian Eno.

Now, decades later, he has relocated to a small village outside Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to voraciously attend to his dream as a young, heartbroken boy -- to create and release music that he, himself, wants to hear.

Although no longer sequestered to pop and ambient musics, Michael's signature sound has merged the two, having integrated the R&B, hiphop, and psychedelia he has grown to love as a older gent -- having absorbed the edgy rhythms and dreamy soul of the southern United States (Atlanta and Miami).

Michael still puts forth ample amounts af ambient musics, but his recent 'sound' hovers elsewhere -- somewhere amidst the genres of vaportrap, spacerock, and trip-hop.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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