These fantastic sounds instantly create images in my mind. Excellent !

Autonomy

the shimmering haze
above
the wet stone

haiku by Fukuda Chiyo-ni http://haikukan.city.hakusan.ishikawa.jp/english/about/index.html

picture by Olga Thelavart https://unsplash.com/@olga_o

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

harming himself

halF shimmerinG [naviarhaiku398]

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals [?!] and 'vocalistic electronic manipulation'
Composed and Recorded ca. August 20, 2021.
sm2 [edit] [32AIF].

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"Whew! Just completed this project, and, boy ... am I pooped; most disquiet projects/experiments 'write themselves,' but this one was exhausting: due to the absolutely open-ended nature of Marc's prompt, I had nowhere to begin; I just had to 'go with it.'

I quickly laid down some vocal sounds into the DAW and then imported them into a software tool I don't normally use: Roni's 'Amazing Slow Downer.' [It's fab and smooth-quality!] I only had recorded a minute or two of vocalizations, so I slowed them down drastically -- some to 20% of their original speed. I also pitched them up and down so as to make my personal voice unrecognizable. Then I imported them back into my DAW and started composing.

It feels as if I have never been so deliberate with the placement of sound files and volume edits: I spent four hours formulating a 'three-part rhythm' out of the amorphous vocalized sections I had.

I orchestrated them painstakingly, and then 'effected' them -- some on-the-fly, since I naturally had blooming intentions in mind for both the sounds, themselves, and the overall piece, as I composed it.

Here it is: 'Knell.' I chose the name for the dark and eerie nature of the piece."

~ Michael

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"More on this 503rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Sing Song (The Assignment: Record a song using only your voice transformed beyond recognition) — at: https://disquiet.com/0503/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0503-sing-song/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

The image associated with this project is by John, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/2hMq7fw

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/"

~Marc Weidenbaum

Knell

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"Knell" [disquiet0503] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh

A distribution of parameters [prt 1]

Disquiet Junto Project 0504: Transform Formula
The Assignment: Take a sound, change it, and contrast that with the original.

More on this 504th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Transform Formula (The Assignment: Take a sound, change it, and contrast that with the original) — at: https://disquiet.com/0504/

This week’s project was proposed by the musician Hainbach: https://www.hainbachmusik.com/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0504-tranform-formula/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Transformer Pole (disquiet0504)

An old "live-in-the-studio" improvisation (circa 2012) 
by
miguel yanover: soprano saxophone
daniel diaz: bowed upright bass, treatments

rediscovered and reworked for this haiku:

⠀
cicadas⠀
the stillness⠀
begins⠀
⠀
poem by andrea cecon

photo by jack b.



@yanomito
@naviar-records

Stillness (naviarhaiku400)

This track, Halloween inspired, samples the deeper and darker side of my modular synth (for the initiated: E352's, Plaits and Beads are prominent modules).  I've added effects, some spitfire drums, a bit of EQ and dynamics "in the box" afterwards.

This track is a response to the weekly disquiet junto.

More on this 513th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Ghost OST (The Assignment: Play that spooky music) — at: https://disquiet.com/0513/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

disquiet0513 - offside

Bakgrownd Sownz #3

A track for Naviar Record's Haiku Challenge; 7 days in which to create a track inspired by the haiku posted. This track uses Olafur Arnalds Stratus piano, combined with a more conventional piano part playing the melody.

Like A Letter Read Many Times (naviarhaiku424)

Morgaze [part 2]

ewww

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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