(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

Empire of Lights, searing guitar, pounding drums, soaring vocals, thunderous bass.

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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In 2007 at age 63 Montrealer Peter Wheeler bought his first guitar. He then went to amazon.com and purchased a book called “How To Play The Guitar for Dummies”. Since then he hasn’t looked back. 

Sometimes serious - sometimes humorous Wheeler’s music seeks to re-capture the Classic Vibes  from the 70’s & 80’s. To best describe his music imagine Bob Dylan & The Doors meet The Clash & Leonard Cohen at the Hotel California & share a bottle of wine with Tarantino. Peter Wheeler is a poet - focusing all his energies into creating musical canvases to express his personal vision of the world surrounding him. 

For several years Peter was part of the local bar scene in the Greater Montreal area.  He performed as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for The Rock Roulette Band. His experiences giving live performances and continually improving his guitar playing has truly shown that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

In 2020 Peter teamed up with Johnny Vienneau, a multi- talented musician and Producer from Montreal and recorded his first album of cover songs called "Self Portrait".  https://soundcloud.com/peter-wheeler/sets/self-portrait-1

Prior to embarking on his musical odyssey Peter's main passion was painting having had several major exhibitions and loyal patrons. https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.46081025804&type=3    

Today Peter continues to pursue his passion for The Arts by doing portraits of friends, family and people he greatly admires. In 2021 he became a re-born again environmentalist and his songwriting is now focused on increasing awareness of the climatic challenge facing the planet.

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Composer, Singer/Songwriter of ethereal folk, dreamy ambient and chilled out electronica .

I first started posting my music on Soundcloud in late 2012. 

I've found it to be a very inspiring and supportive community of music creators. 

I have also made friends with great people and collaborated with some really talented artists on here.

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Discography

Grace  2020
Eudaemonia  2019
David Stephenson 2018
I Become Disaster 2017
High Lonesome 2011
Stereo Side Two  2010
It's All In Your Head 2001

 "David is a great post-protopunk-singer/songwriter-with a dash of industrial-upper-Midwest-infused-drum-machined-mayhem-but-with-soul."  DJ Paul Critz, KFUG Radio. 

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