Very otherworldly. Space creatures lament

very good, this twist at 0:52 is what will make of this song an interstellar hit! good little track really.

I love all the gently implied rhythms, great stuff :) 

Really great! You should do a whole album like this!

I love your write-ups as much as your music, Michael. Thoughtful and impressive creations, on all levels. :)

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers and sequencer programming, drums and drum machine programming, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. February 21, 2019.
sm3 [2023 REMASTER] [DOLBY Thunder at 23p] [__AIF].

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"As per 'Copernican,' Jonathon Keats' and Marc Weidenbaum's disquiet junto [ https://soundcloud.com/disquiet ] experimental assignment this week, "record a piece of music intended for an alien species," I opted to not spend a lot of time on the project; I opted for two to three hours, thereby removing Myself from 'romancing,' 'massaging,' and 'logisticizing' this work into a 'Western-Earth-music,' dead-end corner, thereby dismissing the call of the assignment.

I -- in My most experimental mindsets -- have always explored the time constituent of musics; that is, I have always been interested and mystified by hearing the harmonic structures, rhythms, and secret surprises that await one when music is slowed down on a tape-based recording and, albeit with sonic artifacts, time-expanded grossly.

It's inspiring to hear what lay just 'in-between the cracks' of a familiar, or unfamiliar, recording; hence, I began by creating a random short phrase of 'music' from a synth, layering it, and time-expanding it by 230%.

From there, I just flowed: I added, and subtracted, and judged, and hated on over 60% of what I laid down; it was either too 'Earth-musical,' or expected, or ubiquitous, Earth-music-wise. [LOL!!!]

I wanted to imagine, and record, what a sentient and aesthetic, alien species would consider an orchestral-trap piece of music.

As for the technical aspects of the process, I exaggerated EQ boosts and cuts, imagining that aliens' hearing apparatus might be unique from ours; I veered away from Earthly musical scales, and even-numbered time-signatures.

I did, however, realize (or, rather, assume ... [mistake?!]) that an alien species would experience the dimension of time similarly to us humans.

I named the piece after a favourite electronic music pioneer, Milton Babbitt, whom I met after His performance at Swarthmore University in the state of Pennsylvania, United States of America, in the early '90s.

Here is the result: "Babbitt ['Copernican']" ..."

~ Michael

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"More on this 373rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Copernican Music / The Assignment: Record a piece of music intended for an alien species — at:

https://disquiet.com/0373/

This week’s project was made as a proposition by the artist Jonathon Keats.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0373-copernican-music/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is from one of Keats’ own instruments related to his Copernican artwork, a gravitational radio. Photo credit: Dora Tsui. "

~ Marc Weidenbaum

Babbitt (Copernican)

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"Babbitt ['Copernican']" [ disquiet0373 ] [2023 REMASTER] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh

POP | 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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