The lyrics are excellent. And the guitar does what it has to do to fill the spaces around the vocal.

method: based on an already fully-fledged foundation by the sonic genius Mark of the re-evolution café orchestra; my additions were made with a crave and a vo1; eventually bomastically adorned by Jeff, the maestro; several stages of remixing at several places
narration: war takes its toll
credits: musical foundation: re-evolution café orchestra  https://soundcloud.com/re-evolution_cafe; text and reading: sonic structures and silent stretches; condiments, flavours and icings on the cake: stonerjazz https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679

poem / copyright jo richter:

he had thrown shells
through bedroom windows
watched debris rain down
on strollers and dogs

his patriot self
got lost in the trenches
he watched himself die
survive and fight on

STAINED-GLASS PROPOSAL
RE-WATCHED ON A SMARTPHONE
MONOLITH LONGING
AS THE BATTERY DRAINS

she watched the news
frontlines too static
left to fetch water
thirsting for hope

she tried to comfort
a spark without flame
when little remains
you pick up what's left

A TOWNHOUSE WEDDING
FIVE DOZEN BRIDES
A DAY BEFORE LEAVING
A TENDER WHITE LIE

warfare has lingered
lining live ghosts
acting and watching
in camouflage clothes

ghosts

ghosts - WITH  Re-evolution Café Orchestra AND stonerjazz

Album DISTANT LANDS
RELEASED: April 6, 2023 - The album contains 12 tracks Ambient and 'long 77 minutes. And 'available now on AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C31R4DL8/ref=sr_1_16?crid=1R96EBHHOX6IT&keywords=unclemad&qid=1688897092&sprefix=unclemad%2Caps%2C231&sr=8-16

7 - The Ghost Bridge - Album DISTANT LANDS

(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers, 'found sounds,' and 'found sound' manipulation
David Seidel: [ n/a ]: sine wave generation and manipulation
Composed and Recorded ca. March 7 to 13, 2014.
sm5b [2023 REMASTER] [eM 01] [24WAV] [from iTunes].

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"(This finished piece is based upon an unfinished work that was intended to fulfill the requirements for the 114th March 7-10, 2014 Disquiet Junto project, 'disquiet0114-60Hz,' which -- to paraphrase for simplicity's sake -- was 'to compose a piece of music using only pre-recorded sine waves.' Below is my description of the process.)"

~ Michael

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"Prior to importing the sine wave chunks, I first fixed the tempo of my DAW to 60 BPM to reflect the frequency of the sine waves within. Therefore, with respect to the piece’s title, “Infrastructure” (named in deference to a phrase in Marc Weidenbaum’s liner notes in David Seidel’s release), I could introduce sonic elements at exact temporal multiples and divisions of the number, “60”—reflective of the frequency of those electrons flowing throughout my native United States [US].

Unsure as to whether I broke the rules or not, I layered the five chunks together, muted sections of chunks 1 and 5 in order to form a seamless bed at the instant of one minute, with beginning chunk 1 left raw and ending chunk 5 fed through a distortion and reverb.

I then chopped sections from each of the others. Those sections I had chopped up were multiplied and pitch-shifted several times to form a Bb-minor chord, a Db-diminished chord, and an F-major chord. Each ‘chord’, strained as it sounded, was fed into the same distortion bus as chunk 5, which sometimes overpowered the smaller chorded chunks due to its immense low frequency power; thus, some were barely audible.

After hours and days thinking of how to make this piece musical, I realized that all waveforms are made up of sine waves. Seeking a piano waveform and a vocal waveform, I experimented. I time-compressed several sections of the chunks and layered them, which resulted in several usable sounds distinguishable from the longer, droning chunk beds—a percussive, which I elongated by 11 measures, a ‘bleep’|‘blip’|‘bloop’, which I elongated by 4 measures, and a wind sound, which I elongated to 11 measures and then shortened yet again to 4 measures. I used these sounds to punctuate the chordal changes—the Bb-minor, the Db-diminished, and the F-major chords.

Even the reverb settings were dialed in to represent the infrastructure of the US, what with rectangular room spaces (skyscrapers) and reflective surfaces representative of concrete.

After the Disquiet Junto deadline had passed, I took up the project again added a multitude of synth lines, Rhodes-ey piano licks, and muted percussion tracks. I topped the piece off with subtle throat-singing samples from FreeSound.org:

storm#16.wav: http://www.freesound.org/people/djgriffin/sounds/22023/
tibetan chant 3.wav: http://www.freesound.org/people/djgriffin/sounds/15363/ "

~ Michael

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"More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

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

The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:

http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz "

~ Marc Weidenbaum

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Infrastructure

"Infrastructure" [2014] [2023 REMASTER] [based on (disquiet0114-60Hz)] ~ Michael Ash Sharbaugh

The Digger

Mot Qui Pousse

Many decades ago, the amazing and multifaceted David Blair spent a short while crashing in my home town before settling in Detroit. At the time, he was just learning the basics of guitar. His innate musicianship and poetic prowess took us all by surprise. Even he was a little wowed. Digging through my stuff recently, I found a boom-box recording of a song of his from then. The cassette is labeled only “David Blair”, but the lyric “My One True Companion” stands out as a good choice for a title. His life cut terribly short, I was thinking it would be lovely tribute if people made remixes and reworks of this fantastic and almost-lost track. Please let me know if you decide to participate. Be creative, respectful and have fun! I’ll make a playlist of all the takes. Thanks!

MY ONE TRUE COMPANION

DAVID BLAIR - "MY ONE TRUE COMPANION" OPEN COLLAB, READ DESCRIPTION.

Something in Mind

Accademia di Musica di Fiesole - Finals "Concorso Veretti 2023"
Sax Soprano - Carmen Greco
Sax Alto - Alice Abbate
Sax Tenore - Giulio Vantacoli
Sax Baritono - Giovanni Uscidda

Là Dove Vivono gli Altri, for Saxophone Quartet - LIVE 2023

LucyScrew (AudioBake +MrDjBigHouse)
CyberSamurai + THE JOOOS (aka OJ22)

Alien QUARTET (THE JOOOS +Cyber Samurai + AudioBake +MrDjBigHouse)LucyScrew MIX

This track was made with Kontakt 7. & Spark 2 (congas, perc & FX).
Graphics made by AI

Rachel

Lyrics:

Four lines 
For times
We roam
Short minds
Forged here
We roam
Here you stand, mine
Here you fall on sand
Heal your hearts, you break
No more lies, it’s truth we see

DAVID BLAIR - "MY ONE TRUE COMPANION" OPEN COLLAB, READ DESCRIPTION.

mreguest

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