Great entry to a cool creative challenge... nice work.

What a great intro! Again, a wonderful piece!

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: prepared piano, synthesizer, and electronic percussion
Composed and Recorded ca. May 3, 2013.
DJ 2013MAY02 sm2 [16bit][LANDRlo].

In picking my two notes, I sat in my studio chair and blindly reached over to the keyboard of my synthesizer twice. The first time I reached I touched a G key; the second time, I struck two keys—an A and an A#|B. I had three notes. Thus, I kept the G [392 Hz], and then summed the frequencies in Hertz of the A and the A#|B and divided the result by two, which gave me 453.08 Hz for my second note. Since 453.08 Hz is not part of the usual Western tempered scale, I tuned my synthesizer to the frequency using a signal generator.

I recorded the first note—a G on a prepared piano—and butted it right up to the beginning of my ‘sequence.’ I then wanted to fill the minute, so I time-expanded it by over 600 percent—to exactly the end of the minute. I then copied it and pasted it to a location at around 30 seconds into the piece.

The second note was recorded from a synthesizer—a Korg DW-8000. As soon as the sequence began, I started playing a patch tuned to 453.08 Hz. I held down the note until 58 seconds had elapsed, leaving room for the reverb tail to fill the remaining two seconds.

I combined the notes as directed into one stereo track, leaving the prepared piano dry and adding reverb to the Korg synthesizer.

Careful to be sensitive to the piano’s subtle beats, I listened back to the prepared piano track and added my favorite drum sound—a 909 kick tuned all the way down. I then added a reverse tambourine to punctuate the kick drum, putting it through a random panning plug-in effect, “Orbit.” Next, I solo-ed the DW-8000 drone. The beats in the tone were plainly apparent, enabling me to easily add a bongo played with a drumstick to match them. I added the same reverb to this bongo as was used for the DW-8000 drone. I then bounced the percussion tracks down to one stereo track.

All drums and percussion were added in real time without the use of a sequencer.

I summed the two recorded stems, feeding them through a limiter. This is the result.


More on this 70th Disquiet Junto project, which involves creating a single piece of music from two tones and three beats, at:

http://disquiet.com/2013/05/02/disquiet0070-2tones3beats/

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

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

"Afternoon in the Woods" [disquiet0070-2tones3beats]

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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