(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: synthesizer, recordings, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. July 29 to August 11, 2014.
sm4lev [2023 REMASTER] [eM 01] [24WAV].
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"The disquiet junto assignment: “try to record one minute of sound that would suggest to the listener the pleasing experience of air conditioning — of the air being cooled on a hot summer day.”
My process: Rather than record my air conditioner—a window unit fixed in the room across the hall from my recording studio, I decided to piece together and layer self-made and found recordings of gadgets and appliances until the conglomerate of sound approximated an air conditioner’s soothing hum, and comforting drip.
I utilised recordings of a back-rubbing gadget and my dishwasher as my most prominent recorded layers, then found a royalty-free sample of ‘wind in pines,’ and layered that in with them, mixing it to near-inaudibility. I then dialed in a VCF-controlled synth-wind—a white, percussive noise with a slight sustain—on my Korg M1, and welded that against sections of the extant piece.
Believing that I had sonically approximated an air conditioning unit, just for color, I subsequently sought an undulating and airy pad to suggest two repeating notes—F and C, F and C. The result is “Balm.”
[P.S.: I may elect to add to it later prior to the project's deadline.]"
~ Michael
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"More on this 135th Disquiet Junto project — “Record the sonic equivalent of air conditioning” — at:
http://disquiet.com/2014/07/31/disquiet0135-soundofsummer/
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto
Join the Disquiet Junto at:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:
http://disquiet.com/forums "
~ Marc Weidenbaum
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