(Sharbaugh [and 'Others'])
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. 2013 to July 26, 2020.
sm5 [2023 REMASTER] [24WAV] [eM 02].
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"During this tenuously denormalized environment that we, as humans, face currently amid the COVID-19 epidemic, most musicians [and non-musicians] are discovering ample time on their hands that can be utilized for creative, sonic endeavors; hence, for this week's disquiet junto, I imagined, as Marc Weidenbaum's prompt had stated, '[an] idea of looking ahead -- of projecting what the world will be like in six months -- what [our] world will [sound] like six months from today, [and] make some music that reflects what you imagined,' and set out to produce a soundscape that might become representational of 'some manner of composing' by musicians and non-musicians, alike, briefly, ahead in the future.
To that end, I struck off into this project intending to be pure audience to the piece; that is, I desired to build a soundscape that was, for nearly all purposes, beyond my control, and was extant without my ever inputing a single note -- nor sound -- by 'playing' ANY conventional musical tools nor instruments.
'Six months from now,' I had imagined, 'the world's aural archive will have grown in its number of works created by non-musicians without the utilization of ANY conventional, musical instruments -- save a computer (for retrieving, and mixing, pre-composed sound files).'
But, of course, when composing and mixing a project in a DAW, egotistical control and inward aesthetic ever-prevails in my case; therefore, I had chosen to select -- and edit -- several HUGE beds of sound, layer them side-by-side, and judge the manners in which they collided, overlapped, and existed together (i.e., using manually-generated volume fades, on-board processing and effects, and panning techniques within the DAW, itself).
I chose the pre-recorded online file archive provided by the website, freesound.org, as my 'nest-egg' of potential 'sound options': I kept entering the search terms, 'space' and 'a-note' -- as in 'the musical tone, 'A' -- into the search field over a period of five hours, and auditioned, chose, imported, and melded-together, seven [7] distinct sound files that were ten- to ninety-minutes in temporal length -- as might a 'non-musician' [!?] might have done -- and mixed them together, all the while, of course, consciously manipulating them according to my unique, individualized aesthetic concerning 'what sounds good' (i.e., manipulating volume fades, effects, and panning parameters).
This musical bed of sound is the result: 'In the Orbit of a Victorian Fireplace.'"
~ Michael (July 26, 2020)
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"More on this 447th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Listen Ahead (The Assignment: Make some music for the near future), at:
https://disquiet.com/0447/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/
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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0447-listen-ahead/
There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion."
~ Marc Weidenbaum (ca. 2020)
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The soundfiles contained in this composition can be found below.
"factoryplace" by Omar Alvarado
https://freesound.org/people/Omar%20Alvarado/sounds/474157/
"Alien Soundscape - Long" by Speedenza
https://freesound.org/people/Speedenza/sounds/198532/
"mix mfo3b7 113" by ERH
https://freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/138436/
"Spaceship Ambience" by revolt2563
https://freesound.org/people/revolt2563/sounds/443499/
"Glass Aquaphone Drone 2" by be-steele
https://freesound.org/people/be-steele/sounds/322990/
"A Spaceship Fly-by" by InspectorJ
https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/397948/
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