(Peterson | Sharbaugh)

Calebass (Mikael Peterson) [ https://soundcloud.com/calebass ]: acoustic guitar, percussion and drums, and melodica

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: 'steely' guitar, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizer and sequencer programming, and 'found sounds'

Recorded by Mikael Peterson [Calebass] [ https://soundcloud.com/calebass ] and Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ].

Mixed, Produced, and Engineered by Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ].

Words and Lyrics by Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ].

Composed and Recorded ca. December 7th, 2021 to January 3rd, 2022.

sm13 [32AIF] [raw].

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"Bittermouth II" has a 'sister' recording, which preceded it, "Bittermouth I" [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/bittermouth-disquiet0520-on-the-clock-sm7 ].

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"I, for years, had wanted to collaborate with this fine, unique artist, Calebass; this is the fruit of that labour.

Thank You, Mikael!

"

~ Michael

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(Lock | Sharbaugh)

Jon Lock [ https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5 ]: drums and drum machine programming, bass guitar, guitars, and synthesizers

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizer and sequencer programming, and 'found sounds'

Composed and Recorded ca. December 7 to December 29, 2021.

sm57 [edit 01] [CB01] [24WAV].

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[Ya] think You've got it all figured out now

love Me, leave Me

I'm never enough [no]

for more than one night

don't put up a fight

[ooo ... the coo and the caw]

if Ya had any sense You'd let Me alone

not love Me, leave me

or hang up the phone [no]

just like last night

why do We fight?

[ooo ... the coo and the caw]

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I hear the crow's baneful caw

and I return with a dove's chicane coo

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We've passed beyond the shade of a doubt, Girl,

You test Me, pressed Me

now I'm out of Your world [yeah]

but just like a glove

You fit Me, My Love

[ooo ... the coo and the caw]

if I had some gold for every lie that You told

I'd be filthy rich, Dear,

and ever so bold [yeah]

maybe I'd smite

maybe I'd bite

[ooo ... the coo and the caw]

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I hear the crow's baneful caw

and I return with a dove's chicane coo

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Ya think You've got it all figured out, Girl,

Ya love Me, leave Me

I'm never enough [no]

for more than one night

don't put up a fight

[ooo ... the coo and the caw]

if I had some gold for every lie that You told

I'd be filthy rich, Dear,

and ever so bold [yeah]

maybe I'd smite

maybe I'd bite

[ooo ... the coo and the caw]

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I hear the crow's baneful caw

and I return with a dove's chicane coo

chicane coo

chicane coo

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[enough]

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(Hallam | Sharbaugh)

Adrian Hallam [ https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam ]: drum machines and drum machine programming, synthesizers and synthesizer programming

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizers, drum machines and drum machine programming, and 'found sounds'

Composed and Recorded ca. 2015 to March 21, 2019.

Remastered ca. December 30, 2021.

sm51 [24WAV] [eM 02] [The Midnight Marten 2021 REMASTER].

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T = 102 BPM

(working title: "Sandcastle[s]")

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Here lies the original mix from 2019:

https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/onyx-the-sable-stone-mix

(Sharbaugh)

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: 'steely' guitar, synthesizers and sequencer programming, drum machine, and 'found sounds'

Composed and Recorded ca. December 22 to 23, 2021.

sm7 [edit 01] [eM01] [24WAV].

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"I was working on the recording of another work -- "The Shadow of Your Smile" [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/the-shadow-of-your-smile ] -- when I had 'mistakenly' recorded the two main sequences that make up this tune. I had, at the time, hoped to add them to the "Shadow" song, but, alas, they did not fit, but -- BOY[!!!] -- did they sound great nestled side by side one another as discrete tracks!

Therefore, I continued working on "Shadow," and put them on the desktop backburner in a folder called "put these audio files together." After remembering Marc's prompt a week ago -- "stop procrastinating and do ... some musical idea you’ve been putting off doing all year ... a riff, a new approach to an instrument you use, reworking an existing track ... whatever’s been on your mind," I busted them out, and just did it!

This 'junto' piece is almost a week late, but, as I have done with many other works based on Marc's prompts for the Disquiet Junto, I opened that aforementioned folder, and edited the hell out of the two tracks (snipping them into sections and juxtaposing them over a 3-minute duration), and added more sound (coyote calls, synth flute, and ambience-giving plug-ins -- delay, reverb, chorus, and phaser), and release it now.

Happy Holidaze, Everybody!"

~ Michael Ash Sharbaugh

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"More on this 520th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On the Clock (The Assignment: Get that thing done before the end of the year) — at: https://disquiet.com/0520/

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-0520-on-the-clock/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to [email protected] for Slack inclusion."

~ Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet Junto Founder

(Sharbaugh)

Thomas C. Grant: guitar

Michael Ash Sharbaugh: vocal, synthesizers and sequencer programming, drums and drum machine programming, and 'found sounds'

Composed and Recorded ca. September 6th to October 4th, 2017.

Remastered ca. November 25, 2021.

sm62 [eM02soft] [edit02] [24AIF].

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well there’s a woman I just met

and now my heart’s already in debt

she’s the lady upstairs

who has soaked in all my stares

I bet there be stars in her room

bet there be stars in her room

now she’s the sweetest girl I’ve known

she keeps her candles all aglow

she’s my lady upstairs

and now she soaks up all my stares

—

there be stars in her room

they hiss and quiver with the Moon

they astound and they surround

they leave me bound and drowned

like her loving

—

now there’s a woman I adore

she strikes me deep within my core

she be a maiden yet untouched

by a love like mine and now she’s clutched

there be stars in her room

there be stars in her room

—

there be stars in her room

they hiss and quiver with the Moon

they astound and they surround

they leave me bound and drowned

like her loving

—

they astound and they surround

they leave me bound and drowned

they astound, they surround

I was lost, but now I’m found

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This song is dedicated to Amy Dixon Alarcon.

This is a musical composition edited -- no ... created -- by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, utilizing a conglomerate of small, musical pieces written by Me and all of My Fellow Disquiet Junto compadres. We are helmed and gathered by Marc Weidenbaum.

My piece, "Overcast + Undertaken" [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/overcast-and-undertaken-disquiet0478 ], was composed for it between February 26 to March 2, 2021.

It originally 'aired' on Radio Helsinki on March 29, 2021 at 7:30 PM; it was published for streaming on the Rcba.com website at https://cba.fro.at/507597 on July 4, 2021.

(Sharbaugh)

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: guitar, synthesizers, and 'found sounds'

Composed and Recorded ca. November 7 to 8, 2021.

sm14 [eM-lo-01] [24WAV].

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"

This work is much more complex than it needed to be: between the myriad and numerous layered sounds and textures, to the short-lived juxtoposition of the two chords – Bm and Dm, which share note F, I got carried away, and swept away (candid details below).

I first laid down the droning Bm guitar (after listening to the band, Cigarettes After Sex, for days), The project was heading towards an ambient reckoning, but, then, a long-time + close Friend and Lover hurt Me. It then took a sinister turn.

I followed up on the guitar by layering [haphazardly] as many pads and sounds I could on top of the two chords without giving a thought, almost, but DID pay attention to the rhythm and cadences. I manipulated the volume curves of each and every track with the utmost of detail after having gotten them out of My system, becoming an audience to the resulting layers, rather than a cognizant, controlling composer.

It was a flurry of manic activity exorcising My hurt; this is the product.

"

~ Michael

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"

Disquiet Junto Project 0514: Chord Channels

The Assignment: Take two chords and connect them over time.

Step 1: The goal of this project is to produce a slow piece of music in which you move back and forth between two chords. Choose two chords that have at least one note in common.

Step 2: Map out the notes of each chord.

Step 3: Compose a piece of music in which the individual notes of each chord slowly appear and disappear, so that at any point in time part of one chord, or part of both chords, or perhaps even both chords in their entirety can be heard.

"

~ Marc Weidenbaum

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(Armstrong)

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocal

StarMaker cellphone karaoke app: music

[v 1].

(Depeche Mode)

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocal

StarMaker [an Android phone karaoke app]: music

Recorded 2021-10-27 [Simon Le Bon's birthday].

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This performance is dedicated to a Friend + Peer ... Professor Oddfellow [ https://soundcloud.com/prof-oddfellow].

(Depeche Mode)

Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals

StarMaker [an Android phone app]: music

Recorded ca. 2019.

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