My Other World

My Other World (Otherworldy.)

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GHOSTS N SHIT

Written, produced and mastered by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2018 Chris Sharp
(p) 2018 Chris Sharp

Dustfall

please listen with headphones — the beginning is very quiet!

performed by the Argus Quartet
May 6, 2019
Alice Tully Hall, New York

drip music

For electric guitar and ensemble
Performed by musicians from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, DAI students from CNSMDP and Samuel Taylor (electric guitar)

I have a deep attraction to the ruggedness of forests and the intense vibrations they emit. Although this piece was not directly inspired by forests, nor is it programatic in other sense for that matter, I feel it brought the nature lover out in me. I think of my music a bit like an English garden, in which the ruggedness of nature is allowed to resonate, with the gardener guiding plants rather than forcing them into geometrical shapes and forms. While I do write very precise harmonies, timbres and textures, I like to allow the music to breath and flow in a way that reflects the natural textures, motions and layers of a forest.

Quakin' 'n' Groovin' (Ensemble Intercontemporain)

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This recording needs some explanation: 
It is made to compare two systems 1/ a stereo binaural system with two omnis, like SASS or likewise and 2/ a system with two cardioids sitting as close as possible to one another, facing 90 degrees left and right, so called ”X-Y” stereo.
The track is continous, that is 5s taken from the binaural track, then the following 5s from the XY track, then the following 5s from the binaural track and so forth.  The two recorings were made simultaniously.
One can hear that the omnis don´t have exactly the same ”tone” as the cardioids, but it´s more interesting to hear the difference because of the distance between the omnis compared to the distance between the cardiois. As the omnis are about 150mm apart from one another they will pick up a phase stereo, while the cardioids will not, as they are too close too ane another. 
Thereby, the cardioids will ”place” the  traffic noise in the middle of the stereo picture where it becomes more (psyco acoustically) audible. 
I certainly find the sound from the omni rig much more pleasant than from the XY. In the same time I am aware of that ”all” professional people would classify the XY as more ”correct”. 
This, I think, goes back to a very old dogm. Fifty years ago, the broadcasting companies, BBC in particular, had problems with the coming stereo television sets: How can we (BBC) produce a stereo  sound that sounds good also in the mono set up´s? The best answer was M/S stereo, where the M (mid) came out nicely also in the mono TV loudspeakers. The next best was XY stereo, with the cardioid capsules so close to one another that the phase differences could be neglected. That was fifty years ago, but ”you can´t use binaural systems professionally” still lives on.
A fact is that XY stereo produces a better amplitude stereo when loudspeakers are used, which everyone with nearfield monitors will hear. It is also clearly visible if you open the track with Audacity for example. But it is a ”better sound” compared to the omnis?

Binaural stereo  vs. XY

i took this weeks project as an impetus to just cut and paste something together, didn't let the "musical" side put me off, just revelled in the excuse to splice and juxtapose the contents of my recorder - some sounds recorded intentionally for this project, most just what was there; fragments snatched over the past three months or so.

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... some pink noise, an aubergine being chargrilled, nextdoor's bins, a ventilation system, a brief hydrophone recording, a waterfall, a self-service check-out, various birds, some metal stairs, traffic, rain, ice, snow, various paperbags, a train station tannoy, a malfunctioning videocall, a dehumidifier, gulls, small pieces of plastic, wind, demolition work...

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it's my age and inclination, i think, but i am deeply enamoured with collage and assemblage aesthetics; the way the world necessarily leaks in to even the most perverse and hermetic project; the way you can sort of synthesise the sheer abundance of the world; a nest of implications and connections; the way things become strange when they're oblided to be in overlap or proximity.

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i used no effects on the final piece beyond a little panning at times, a little EQ-ing; some of the files and chopped into the thing had been processed, but for the most part - as the relentless bumps of mic-handling shoud indicate, the component sounds are essentially unprocessed.

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More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0478/

The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at:

https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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