(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizer and sequencer programming, sampler and sample editing, drums and drum machine programming, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. September 3 to 4, 2023.
sm5 [eM 01] [24WAV].

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"I often just sit down with the intention of 'writing' an [audio] track. When I experience no inspiration, or have no idea for a concept of an original recording, I usually turn to the Diquiet Junto prompt of the week to set-out to compose one.

This week was no different:

I read the disquiet prompt -- 'record a simple track at 60 BPM in 4/4 that will be reworked subsequently by other musicians' -- Sunday evening, and started that minute. I worked seven straight hours on it without getting out of My seat.

I set-out to create something simple, tonally, and mode- and key-wise, and something that did not have a bunch of changes or sections, that COULD be easily reworked into a more, highly complex piece.

Recording a lone, aggressive, staccatto, string patch and looping it led Me to recording another variation with slight percussion, and then I just added a long, time-expanded bed of a violin being tuned judiciously in sections.

I added a 'head' [introduction] and a 'tail' [cadence], and that was it.

Here is, ' ... to the Beach, Asunder.'"

~ Michael Ash Sharbaugh

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"More on this 609th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Speed Limit Pt 1 (The Assignment: Record a track at precisely 60 BPM with the intention someone will subsequently rework it), at: https://disquiet.com/0609/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0609-speed-limit-pt-1/ "

~ Marc Weidenbaum

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